IxNetwork VE vs SolarWinds Network Device Monitor comparison

The compared Keysight Technologies and SolarWinds solutions aren't in the same category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #1 in ND , and holds a 17.0% mindshare in the category. SolarWinds is ranked #27 in NMS , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of SolarWinds users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Categories and Ranking

IxNetwork VE

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Diagnostics (1st)

SolarWinds Network Device M...

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

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Network Monitoring Software (27th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Management solutions, they serve different purposes. IxNetwork VE is designed for Network Diagnostics and holds a mindshare of 17.0%, down 31.7% compared to last year.
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, on the other hand, focuses on Network Monitoring Software, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.

Network Diagnostics Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IxNetwork VE	17.0%
LinkSprinter	9.2%
Alluvio NetProfiler	9.0%
Other	64.8%

Network Diagnostics

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor	0.9%
Zabbix	5.7%
SolarWinds NPM	3.4%
Other	90.0%

Network Monitoring Software

Featured Reviews

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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Sorin Gogean

IT Infrastructure Senior Network Technician at Autoliv

Offers some features but needs better customization and analysis tools

There are solutions that can perform better, but due to pricing for our corporate implementation, we had to stay with this solution. It accomplishes the necessary tasks, but there is room for improvement. The features are not as customizable as we would prefer, but they are workable. If configured properly, you can perform a drill-down analysis. However, I have not used this feature much for our infrastructure on the network side.

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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

"I would recommend IxNetwork VE to others."

"The most valuable features for me include deduplication, metadata processing, and the ability to perform media services."

"Link monitoring is the most valuable feature of this solution."

"Since our devices are spread out across the world, we can see the status of these devices without having to send someone physically to a remote location, which saves money."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is monitoring."

"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor are the reports. We are configuring the reports, and the first reports are only about the devices. We are configuring the thresholds in order to monitor all the devices."

"This product proactively tells us about issues before the users notice."

"The alerting functionality in SolarWinds Network Device Monitor helps us stay informed during off-hours by sending alerts if our main links or devices are impacted, allowing us to quickly address any issues."

"We are doing more with SolarWinds Network Device Monitor than we were doing in the past with WhatsApp Gold; when we moved to SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, the whole observability part started to grow."

"There are vital features of auto-plugin core ports"

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Cons

"The data center facet of IxNetwork Packet Broker can be improved, particularly concerning mapping from the cache."

"The security could always be improved."

"It should provide user-friendly page"

"The solution is not user-friendly."

"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."

"The solution should have AI-powered issue-resolving capabilities"

"It would be beneficial if SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could provide a feature to monitor CRC errors specifically on individual interfaces rather than the entire device. This would help in detecting intermittent issues and packet drops on main links more accurately, especially when there are CRC errors. It's important for us to be aware of these issues to avoid any voice quality problems or interruptions on our MTS links."

"In terms of price, it could be less expensive."

"SolarWinds pricing is on the higher side, and in India, every customer is cautious about commercial aspects."

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"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is not an expensive solution."

"I find the cost of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor reasonable for our company. Though, I'm not aware of the exact licensing cost."

"The price of the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is good."

"The enterprise license is good for the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor. However, it is expensive, they should reduce their price."

"The product is expensive."

"Thankfully, it doesn't take a lot of manpower to install and deploy."

"Well, we had a perpetual license and the renewal was $20 to $25,000."

"When compared with other solutions SolarWinds is more expensive."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

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?

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?

I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?

I am not a positive person regarding SolarWinds Network Device Monitor.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?

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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

Keysight Technologies

Network Device Monitor is a free tool that makes it easy to monitor the real-time performance and health of a single device on your network with a desktop dashboard that alerts you when your device is in trouble.

SolarWinds

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