NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs Versa Director comparison

NETSCOUT and Versa Networks are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. NETSCOUT is ranked #78, while Versa Networks is ranked #52 with an average rating of 9.0. NETSCOUT holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Versa Networks’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of NETSCOUT users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Versa Networks users who would recommend it.

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Read 13 NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG reviews

554 Views
548 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Versa Director

Read 4 Versa Director reviews

391 Views
368 Comparison Views

75% willing to recommend

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Versa Director

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG and Versa Director are competing products in the network management and security category. Versa Director seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features that justify its price difference despite strong pricing feedback for NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG.

Features: NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG provides robust network monitoring and analytics, comprehensive data insights for performance, and detailed traffic analysis for troubleshooting. Versa Director offers dynamic network automation, policy configuration, and orchestration, optimal for managing SD-WAN environments.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG could improve with a more simplified deployment model, enhanced user interface, and faster configuration capabilities. Versa Director could enhance scalability, provide broader integration options, and improve its policy management flexibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG offers a complex traditional deployment model but is supported by strong customer service. Versa Director provides an agile, flexible deployment process with a focus on quick configuration, supported by responsive and efficient customer service enhancing user experience significantly.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG incurs higher setup costs with substantial investments in hardware and support, offering steady ROI with extensive insights. Versa Director's setup is generally lower, with cloud-centric, subscription-based pricing providing immediate ROI, highlighting traditional investment versus cost-effective service-oriented approaches.

To learn more, read our detailed NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director Report (Updated: July 2025).

Buyer's Guide

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director

July 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 865,384 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

78th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Versa Director

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

52nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Versa Director is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software

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…

Read full review

PriyankDubey

Product manager at Ernst & Young

User-friendly and simpler than its competitors

Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management. Its UI is also excellent compared to Fortinet and Cisco Versa Director's on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software are not integrated, so you have to buy a separate subscription for the SSL VPN. In…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."

"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."

"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."

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

"The real-time troubleshooting and application segregation that you can do within it."

"It is very rock solid. We hardly have any hardware issues."

"It allows us to get quicker resolutions. We can see exactly what is using up the bandwidth, so we can assist end users."

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

More NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG pros

"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."

"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."

"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."

"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."

Cons

"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 single pane of glass feed still needs work."

"It's not able to communicate with our probes."

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

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

"Being able to manage the packet flow switches in nGeniusONE would be great."

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

"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."

More NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG cons

"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."

"Versa could be more AI-oriented."

"It requires some simplification."

"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product could be cheaper."

"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."

"The price is a little high."

"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."

"Having to buy separate licenses for the on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software makes Versa Director very costly compared to other solutions like Fortinet and Cisco."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Network Monitoring Software solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

865,384 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Energy/Utilities Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

Ask a question

Earn 20 points

What do you like most about Versa Director?

Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Versa Director?

Versa could be more AI-oriented.

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Versa Director?

We use the solution to monitor customer networks.

See all answers

Comparisons

Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Compared 28% of the time

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Compared 23% of the time

Riverbed NPM+ vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Compared 19% of the time

cPacket cClear vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Compared 16% of the time

NIKSUN NetVCR vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Compared 14% of the time

More NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG Competitors

SolarWinds NPM vs Versa Director

Compared 42% of the time

Zabbix vs Versa Director

Compared 35% of the time

ThousandEyes vs Versa Director

Compared 23% of the time

More Versa Director Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

August 2025

Download NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG product report

Buyer's Guide

Network Monitoring Software

August 2025

Download Versa Director product report

Also Known As

InfiniStreamNG, NETSCOUT ISNG, Infinistream

Versa Networks Director

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

Versa Director is Versa Networks’ virtualization and service creation platform that simplifies the creation, automation and delivery of services using Versa WAN edge software, FlexVNF. Versa Director provides the essential management, monitoring and orchestration capabilities needed to deliver Versa’s Secure Cloud IP architecture network and security software services. Services supported by Versa include routing and advanced connectivity to direct traffic across multilink WAN access and simplify control for SD-WAN with embedded advanced security

Versa Networks

Sample Customers

U.S. Department of Defense

Information Not Available

Buyer's Guide

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director

July 2025

Free Report: NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director

Find out what your peers are saying about NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director and other solutions. Updated: July 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

865,384 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs. Versa Director report.

See our list of best Network Monitoring Software vendors.

We monitor all Network Monitoring Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.