DX NetOps vs OptiView XG [EOL] comparison

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DX NetOps

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100% willing to recommend

OptiView XG [EOL]

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89% willing to recommend

DX NetOps

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Categories and Ranking

DX NetOps

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (44th), AIOps (17th)

OptiView XG [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Leverages comprehensive network monitoring and AI-driven automation for enhanced performance analysis

There is a model for network traffic analysis in the NetOps product called NetOps Flow Analyzer. It provides all the necessary protocols and analysis. DX NetOps supports network monitoring across hybrid environments, though I hope it works out of the box. The product features include automation through AI, allowing out-of-the-box analysis of performance data, building baseline trends, and enabling configuration of dynamic thresholds relative to collected data.

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Mark_Walker

President at Bitwise Micro

A valuable, impressive, and portable product that saves time and has great scalability and stability

It just saves time. We have run into situations where contractors come in, and they plug in a WiFi device that is handing out DHCP addresses, which affects the rest of the network. To be able to quickly identify from where the problem is originating, you need a network tool that can identify the device that is doing this. It just brings into clear focus the exact issue when there is a problem or outage. When there is a crisis and you've several people wanting to know an estimate of when things are going to be back up and running again, you need to have answers. I have been at places that didn't have a tool like that. I know one place that had an outage for almost a week, and it was craziness. It turned out to be just a bad cable. That's all it was. They were having trouble with their email server, which was an on-premise email server, but emails were taking six hours to appear. The whole problem was because of a bad network cable. When I plugged in the Fluke analyzer, it analyzed and told me immediately that there were transmission errors on this one port from one switch. It told me this within 10 minutes. It is an incredible product.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"A highly scalable solution."

"It is straightforward to configure, and you can quickly gather data from your infrastructure."

"I like that it provides an overall view of our network. From the topology view to every event, we can view it. We can also see the interface utilization for future capacity planning. It fits our use case and environment."

"It's good for root cause analysis for network problems and network link problems."

"The product features include automation through AI, allowing out-of-the-box analysis of performance data, building baseline trends, and enabling configuration of dynamic thresholds relative to collected data."

"The best features I've seen so far with DX NetOps are that it can work with large scale systems, and it has a lot of functionalities and matrices."

"The AI is the best feature in this solution."

"The solution is stable."

More DX NetOps pros

"It is a very valuable tool. It goes out and does a discovery, which is a great process of it. You could have something like a rogue DHCP server, and it will identify it, and then you can see to which switch port it is connected. It is quite an impressive tool. I really liked it because you didn't have to install an agent on anything. It would just go out and do its discovery. For me, that's great."

"Gives us the ability to see our network."

Cons

"It would be better if they had an NFA network analysis feature. We appreciate features like extended network security for bucket flows, but it would be better to have some IDs, IPS functionalities, DDoS, or something like that."

"DX NetOps is somewhat convoluted, and some of the programming constructs can be documented or driven through languages such as Python, Perl, and shell scripting, but they have their proprietary language, which may not be very user-friendly."

"Technical support could be more responsive."

"Lacks dashboards and better integration with other solutions."

"It would be useful to have more AI features."

"The hardware requirements can be improved."

"Technical support needs to be better. They need to be more knowledgeable and responsive."

"One improvement that could make the product better is to streamline its modules into a more cohesive solution."

More DX NetOps cons

"Its price can be improved. Their support can also be improved a little bit. In terms of features, it did everything I wanted it to do. With more features, I would have to start installing network agents or something else, and I don't want to have to install anything. This was the value for me about this device."

"I would like a built-in tap feature which doesn't interfere with the network, and it allows you to see what is happening there."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its price was a bit excessive. The device that I had died. It is under warranty, and they want $20,000 for another one. I just don't want to spend that kind of money, so I'm trying to find an alternate solution. They have annual maintenance on it, which probably was 10% a year, so it all starts to add up."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Manufacturing Company

Government

14%

Non Profit

13%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Educational Organization

12%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	26

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX NetOps?

It is straightforward to configure, and you can quickly gather data from your infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX NetOps?

I think the pricing is expensive.

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What needs improvement with DX NetOps?

We have not used the predictive analytics capability of DX NetOps in impacting our network management processes. My experience with using automated root cause analysis is that it tells the symptoms...

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Overview

DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom company, improves your time to value through advanced AI capabilities and unified network visibility that delivers simplified NetOps intelligence into the user experience that traverses modern architectures. DX NetOps accomplishes this through high scale, unified network monitoring that enables full-stack analytics for assuring traditional and modern architectures. DX NetOps converts inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow and packet analysis into actionable intelligence for network operations teams. Complimented by our AIOps solution, DX NetOps enables IT teams to establish proactive, autonomous remediation capabilities across the applications, infrastructure, and networks that fuel superior user experiences.

Broadcom

OptiView XG is the first network analysis tablet designed specifically for the network engineer. It combines critical functions necessary to automate root-cause analysis of both wired and wireless network performance issues – whether network or application related to reduce time for problem identification. OptiView XG supports repeatable, effective troubleshooting – whether pre- or post-deployment.

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Sample Customers

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XG is used in all industries. Example customers include: Republic National Distributing Company, Titelive, CitiGroup, Los Angeles Unified School District, Saudi German Hospital, DeKalb County Schools, Valdosta State University, The Everett Clinic, Bio-Reference, Miami-Dade Library, Mitel, Borsa Istanbul, Cimarex, Air National Guard Lowndes County, High Point City, Carrollton City Schools, Kern County, Pruitt Communications and Bosch Group.

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