NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs OptiView XG [EOL] comparison

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG and OptiView XG [EOL] are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Additionally, 92% of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OptiView XG [EOL] users who would recommend it.

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

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92% willing to recommend

OptiView XG [EOL]

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89% willing to recommend

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NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Average Rating

8.4

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OptiView XG [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

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Featured Reviews

Michael Gideon Genita

Associate System Engineer at SMS Global Technologies, Inc.

Easy to set up with good documentation and helpful support

I'm using it for a customer The packet flow switch is the most valuable aspect of the solution. It's an easy product to set up. We can scale the solution if we need to. It's stable. The documentation is well-written and quite useful. It's compatible with other products. Under the pocket flow…

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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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Pros

"It has cut our group's troubleshooting time down significantly, e.g., depending on the issue, what would normally take maybe a couple of hours will now take minutes."

"The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."

"The most valuable feature is utilization."

"The product is stable. I have never had any issue where we have lost an InfiniStream, or visibility from that particular InfiniStream, throughout the bank."

"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."

"It's an easy product to set up."

"The solution has helped to increase application and network uptime, reduced our mean time to repair significantly for application and network issues, and cut our overall troubleshooting time from an hour down to five minutes."

"We use it for monitoring whenever we update a new circuit or site."

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"It has streamlined and simplified troubleshooting complex networking problems that would be nearly impossible to uncover with other products."

"When we do a capture, it gives us the details of where the problem is and what it could be."

"We were able to find out that there was actually double acknowledgments coming from one of the devices, and we were able to share that with the coders and ultimately get it fixed."

"It has helped with troubleshooting and has simplified the way the organization functions."

"We are using this product to improve our view of what is happening with the packets."

"We switched to OptiView to be a little bit more flexible."

"OptiView just made it a little bit easier; it was a neat package that made it easier to utilize."

"I like the fact that it can map my whole network when I plug it into my router, my switch, that it can literally discover nodes and clients."

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Cons

"I'd like them to make the product more user-friendly."

"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."

"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement."

"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."

"The NetFlow Collectors could handle more flows per minute."

"There is a timeout feature that we have been asking for awhile."

"I'd like them to make the product more user-friendly."

"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM."

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"I think that the discovery of a network can be improved if the OptiView would recognize more kinds of devices independent of the manufacturer."

"I haven't been able to really get the mobile app to function right, but that's minor."

"Initial setup was complex."

"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."

"I think that the maintenance is ridiculous on some of the products, including OptiView."

"The reports I got back from the guys I sent to training said the guy spent more time telling stories, war stories and that type, rather than actual training about the product."

"The price could come down quite a bit."

"Its price was a bit excessive. The device that I had died; it is under warranty, and they want $20,000 for another one, so I am trying to find an alternate solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product could be cheaper."

"The price is a little high."

"The scalability is good, but it comes at a cost. E.g., if you need 100 InfiniStream because you are sending gigs or terabytes of data to one InfiniStream, then you will have to purchase another InfiniStream, which are not cheap."

"I would like it to be more scalable with less spend."

"It can be scalable. It just costs too much. With a company as big as ours, it gets too expensive to accommodate every single site."

"To capture more with the solution that we bought, you have to buy another InfiniStreamNG, and there are only four ports in the back."

"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

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

10%

Educational Organization

Government

12%

Non Profit

10%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

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

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Also Known As

InfiniStreamNG, NETSCOUT ISNG, Infinistream

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Overview

NETSCOUT’s new ISNG platform harnesses the power of IP intelligence by mining traffic in real-time to deliver accurate and actionable data for service assurance, cybersecurity and business intelligence applications. The InfiniStreamNG platform fully supports the nGeniusONE and Iris application suites.

NETSCOUT

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

U.S. Department of Defense

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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