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IxNetwork VE vs Netrounds comparison

Keysight Technologies and Juniper are both solutions in the Network Diagnostics category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #1, while Juniper is ranked #7. Keysight Technologies holds a 17.0% mindshare in ND, compared to Juniper’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Juniper users are willing to recommend the solution.
IxNetwork VE
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0% willing to recommend
Netrounds
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  • 95 Comparison Views
100% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

IxNetwork VE
Ranking in Network Diagnostics
1st
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Netrounds
Ranking in Network Diagnostics
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (94th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Diagnostics category, the mindshare of IxNetwork VE is 17.0%, down from 31.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Netrounds is 7.9%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Diagnostics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IxNetwork VE17.0%
Netrounds7.9%
Other75.1%
Network Diagnostics
 

Featured Reviews

WilsonAitan - PeerSpot reviewer
WilsonAitan
Deputy Country Manager at PT Securite Asia Indonesia (ABP Securite)
Reduces probe solution costs with advanced deduplication and metadata capabilities
The use case for this tool is generally for enterprise customers who have more than two monitoring tools. These customers obtain information from switches that have a limitation of up to two-point mirroring or span ports. Therefore, if I have more than two monitoring tools, I need a network packet…
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it_user738366 - PeerSpot reviewer
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Head of Network Operations at a tech company with 51-200 employees
​Fast and easy notification of problems on the network
Network quality monitoring of multicast TV channels and other network monitorings. This product gives us a good historical overview over the network and quick alarms for problems Fast and easy notification of problems on the network. The web GUI Grouping of jobs Making your own dashboards…
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IxNetwork VE?
The pricing of this solution is usually quite high.
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What needs improvement with IxNetwork VE?
The data center facet of IxNetwork Packet Broker can be improved, particularly concerning mapping from the cache.
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What is your primary use case for IxNetwork VE?
The use case for this tool is generally for enterprise customers who have more than two monitoring tools. These customers obtain information from switches that have a limitation of up to two-point ...
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Overview

IxNetwork VE is designed to test the functional and performance testing of physical and virtual network infrastructure, capacity, scalability, and convergence using scaled protocol emulation and traffic. IxNetwork VE can emulate protocols for routing and switching, data center Ethernet, software-defined networking (SDN), broadband access, and industrial Ethernet.

  • Provides comprehensive protocol coverage for routing/switching, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), broadband access, data center networking, and SDN
  • Powerful traffic generation and statistics engine including stateless L2-3 traffic and stateful L4-7 application flows
  • Common IxNetwork user interface across both Ixia hardware and virtual products enables end-to-end virtual and hardware based testing from a single pane of glass
  • VMs of the Ixia hardware components (virtual chassis, virtual load modules_ are software that is optimized for protocol emulation and traffic generation in a virtual environement
  • Comprehensive platform support including standalone hypervisors (VMware ESXi and KVM) and OpenStack-based private clouds
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Netrounds is a programmable test and service assurance solution using software-based and traffic-generating probes, easily used and delivered from the cloud as a SaaS solution or deployed on-premise in NFV environments.

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Sample Customers

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