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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]
Read 38 OptiView XG [EOL] reviews
    89% willing to recommend
     

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    Categories and Ranking

    NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG
    Average Rating
    8.4
    Number of Reviews
    13
    Ranking in other categories
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    OptiView XG [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.6
    Number of Reviews
    38
    Ranking in other categories
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    Featured Reviews

    Michael Gideon Genita - PeerSpot reviewer
    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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    MW
    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

    "The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."
    "The real-time troubleshooting and application segregation that you can do within it."
    "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."
    "The tool has the ability to look back within a month's data. It is very easy to navigate within the tool and troubleshoot the problem, compared to other solutions that we've used in the past."
    "The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."
    "The most valuable features are speed and cost."
    "When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."
    "I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."
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    "Gives us the ability to see our network."
    "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."
     

    Cons

    "The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."
    "We don't use the single pane of glass view, even though we own it."
    "The NetFlow Collectors could handle more flows per minute."
    "There is a timeout feature that we have been asking for awhile."
    "The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
    "The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."
    "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."
    "Being able to manage the packet flow switches in nGeniusONE would be great."
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    "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."
    "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."
     

    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "I would like it to be more scalable with less spend."
    "To capture more with the solution that we bought, you have to buy another InfiniStreamNG, and there are only four ports in the back."
    "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."
    "The price is a little high."
    "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."
    "This product could be cheaper."
    "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
    17%
    Manufacturing Company
    13%
    Energy/Utilities Company
    11%
    Government
    10%
    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 SizeCount
    Midsize Enterprise1
    Large Enterprise8
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business7
    Midsize Enterprise8
    Large Enterprise26
     

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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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