DX Performance Management vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

Broadcom and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #55 with an average rating of 8.5, while NETSCOUT is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.5. Broadcom holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and DX Performance Management compete in network performance monitoring. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE has the upper hand due to its superior packet inspection and troubleshooting capabilities.

Features: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE excels with deep packet inspection, detailed traffic analysis, and robust troubleshooting. It offers comprehensive visibility into network performance, quickly identifying and isolating network issues. DX Performance Management provides detailed traffic oversight, application monitoring, and essential features for basic monitoring but lacks the depth of NETSCOUT's packet inspection.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE can be challenging due to its complex feature set, requiring improved user experience and less dependency on physical infrastructure. Simplifying the interface and offering modular pricing could improve usability. DX Performance Management needs enhanced high availability, improved customization for reporting and data presentation, and increased intuitive operation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE offers hybrid deployment options, including On-premises, Hybrid Cloud, and Private Cloud. Its technical support is excellent but often requires a dedicated onsite engineer. DX Performance Management offers an On-premises deployment model with consistent technical support. Users appreciate the support but note the limited dedicated engineers can be a bottleneck.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is seen as a high-cost solution with flexible licensing but has significant upfront costs. Its extensive features offer deeper insights at a higher price. DX Performance Management presents a more competitive pricing structure appealing to cost-conscious users, but its ROI may not match NETSCOUT's insights. Both reduce troubleshooting time effectively.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

55th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), DX NetOps (2nd)

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.5%
DX Performance Management	0.3%
Other	98.2%

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Sandip Kheni

Lead Developer at STL - Sterlite Technologies Limited

The vertical database loads faster than any other product available

We experience disconnections between the solutions own components. In the last five years, there have been many intermittent connection issues with the four components and we still don't know the reasons. The solution has issues when loading groups that have been created in the application interfaces. It would be nice to have a mobile application. In the current industry and technical word, the mobile phone is the only thing that is always in your hands. Other Broadcom products have mobile applications but the solution doesn't offer one. It would be great to view device parameters and view or download graphs from a mobile device.

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Mohammed Hassan

Regional Director at iSecureMind

Helps us by providing root cause analysis when it comes to latency and performance issues

I would recommend NETSCOUT nGeniusONE to others yet not for small SMBs due to the pricing. It is important to have the necessary NETSCOUT experience for smooth integration. The automated issue detection sometimes has a few false positives but is overall cost-effective for our customers. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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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

"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."

"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."

"When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue."

"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."

"It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled."

"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."

"The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement."

"We have been able to get a little bit better at seeing more things in real time and more just in time, so we're less reactionary."

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"The support is good."

"With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people."

"It is an easy-to-scale platform."

"Deep packet inspection is a very useful tool as it works in real time and uses serial packet-level analysis."

"The ability of the dashboards is useful for discover, mapping and understanding of application behaviour."

"The quick drill-down views are similar to Wireshark views. Those are quite nice, with the views on how you interpret some of the data. The granularity of how far you can drill down into milliseconds or microseconds is a very nice feature. It actually stores quite a lot of data in its database."

"Aside from having the logs that are just on the firewall, we're able to get the traffic as it's going in between, throughout our network. It isolates end sources that are having issues, where we don't have any other tools that would be able to go down to an end-user's computer to find out what's going on."

"It helps us get to the root cause quickly. It helps us find massive error codes, then we drill down on that error code, knowing that is the source of our problem."

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Cons

"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."

"When it goes through discovery, or whatever it is doing in the back-end that slows it down, sometimes we get some failures with it. "

"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."

"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."

"This solution is not very scalable."

"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."

"The solution could improve the database model. It is also not very good because they have a lot of interconnections with other data sources, such as NFA and VNA."

"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."

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"Some help screens would be nice, especially if we bring on new operators. It would be great to see if they have more helpful tips available."

"This is a typical thing, but every time they do a major code upgrade, we get hit with some nasty bugs. Some of them literally stop the whole platform from collecting traffic data. They should really do more Q&A on the software stability before release."

"nGeniusONE could be improved by reducing the number of bare metal servers required to run it. Currently, you need a separate bare metal server for each of the following: Xfinity, ISNG, nGeniusONE, and CFS. It would be more cost-effective and less complex if all of these functionalities could be combined into a single bare metal server."

"The single pane of glass view is a challenge. I like the graphics, they're easy to understand, but when more digging is required, it's more complicated to get what I'm expecting."

"Trying to set up dashboards is hard to figure out at times, if you don't do it every day. It's not really intuitive to set them all up... If there were a wizard to take us through, step-by-step, creating dashboards and the like, that would be really helpful."

"The technical support could improve a bit with quicker responses for early on questions. What I think are simple questions are taking a long time to get answers to."

"They can improve still on the workflows, document their workflows that are commonly used... We don't know some of the workflows yet, and it's not something that you can just read up in the manual. There is some stuff in the help manual and online, but it's to a point where you need to purchase extra training and services from them. You can't just go and read up on it yourself and learn from A to Z..."

"Initial setup was complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"The license becomes cost prohibitive very quickly."

"It can be expensive, but if you have a good configuration, based on what you are looking for, it's okay, it's manageable."

"This solution has saved us more than $50,000 a month and freed up 30 percent of our bandwidth."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"Their pricing is very competitive with other solutions... But what I like about NETSCOUT's licensing is that it's shared across all their platforms. They don't create a new licensing scheme for every one of their products. So for nGeniusONE, you buy a certain license level, and it works on all of their products."

"The biggest problem we have with this product is the expense."

"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The product may come across as a cheap tool for some, while it may seem costly for others."

"It is very expensive, but it's well worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Educational Organization

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	37

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?

The tool helps us understand network performance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?

The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices.

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What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

The pricing is a bit high yet not overly expensive. The cost depends on the size of the customer, as sizing controls the pricing.

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Also Known As

CA Performance Management

NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE

Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom

The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.

NETSCOUT

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

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