Megaport is a leading global connectivity provider, offering a platform that enables users to establish agile network infrastructures with ease and flexibility.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Megaport | 5.0% |
| Meraki SD-WAN | 9.8% |
| Cisco ACI | 9.1% |
| Other | 76.1% |
With an extensive ecosystem, Megaport distinguishes itself by simplifying cloud integration and enhancing network efficiency. Its platform empowers businesses by offering direct access to cloud providers, data centers, and enterprise locations. The network-as-a-service model allows users to dynamically scale their networks, providing greater control and cost efficiency in network management.
What are the key features of Megaport?In industries such as finance, Megaport facilitates secure and fast data transfers, while in healthcare, it supports compliance and data accessibility. The approach to network management makes Megaport an invaluable asset across sectors by providing agility and connectivity that suits industry-specific demands.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Network Operations at a media company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I use Megaport for AWS redundancy, valuing its convenient, quick provisioning, stability, and scalability. While support is good, I desire more connections/interface improvements. I rate it 8/10 for risk management ROI. |
| Lead Immersive Technology at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I primarily use Matterport for property sales virtual tours, valuing its dollhouse view and measurement tool for client understanding and efficiency. While a native mini-map would improve it, I rate it 8/10 for its smooth, fast operation. |
| Senior Engineer, Cloud Operations at Cvent | 4.5 | I primarily use Megaport for efficient port forwarding to test local projects, finding it stable and easy to integrate, which significantly boosts my productivity. While it's a great product, I wish the Windows terminal experience was more user-friendly. I rate it 9/10. |
| Infrastructure Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I find Megaport excellent for data center interconnect, appreciating its scalable bandwidth and performance boost. While it saves time and reduces complexity, I wish it were more user-friendly and easier to navigate. |
| Regional Manager, Procurement Packaging Mondelez at Tata Communications Ltd | 3.5 | We utilize Megaport in reselling products and services for end customers, valuing its flexible pricing and easy management. Customers have no complaints, and its streamlined connectivity boosts ROI. We also consider Aviatrix for its transit gateway features. |
My main use case for Matterport is the property sales use case where we scan a show unit, villa, or apartment with the Matterport camera, creating a virtual tour which is then hosted on a webpage and shown to clients or potential buyers. This process helps us sell the actual unit to potential buyers.
When I open Matterport, the first thing I do is import the scanned apartments and spaces, then maintain the spaces. If a unit is not available, I archive it or update that some spaces are not available, determining which tours to archive or provide a link to other teams. We have a large organization with different front-end applications, such as a mobile application for clients and websites, ensuring that all must have the Matterport feature. We manage a hierarchy of projects, with multiple tours utilized and placed on the website.
The best features of Matterport for me include the dollhouse view, which provides a great overview when loading the project, and the measurement tool, which allows me to measure the distance between two points. This feature helps considerably, giving people a clear understanding of the actual sizes and measurements inside the units, and we have received great feedback regarding that.
While Matterport is a component of our overall user journey, its impact includes time savings, fewer onsite visits, and smoother client communication. I cannot say that the benefits are solely due to Matterport, as we could have realized similar benefits with any comparable tool, but it plays an important role in enhancing our immersive experience applications.
I wish Matterport had a mini map feature to show where we are within the property floor plan. While I know there are third-party tools that could be integrated, having this feature natively in Matterport would be helpful.
While adding a mini map feature would not create a huge difference in workflow, it would help users better understand the space. Overall, the workflow would likely remain the same, just with an additional feature.
I have been familiar with Matterport for around three and a half years, using it on and off.
I do not have any major friction points or frustrations with Matterport; everything looks great.
Before using Matterport, I tried 3D Vista, another tool designed for creating 3D tours, although it can also be used for physical spaces.
The scope of my work with Matterport is primarily done by myself, concerning account administration, enabling tours, and archiving them, with the help of team members and vendors who assist in physically scanning the spaces. My main job is to review the scanned data, ensuring the camera height is accurate and that the rendered scan data is of high quality. The admin part and review are completely managed by me, though we also have team members who help with scanning the actual spaces.
Using Matterport does require some training, especially when onboarding new team members or expanding teams. We provide hands-on training, giving them an understanding of how Matterport works, including the actual dashboard and portal, which helps convey how our daily working days would be for new joiners, making it a fast transition process to understand more about Matterport.
I do not remember other tools I considered alongside Matterport because it was a clear choice due to its large user base and the recommendations we received online indicating that it is the best tool.
Matterport is just a small part of our overall workflow, as we primarily use Unreal Engine for more real-time rendering and comprehensive applications that incorporate full 3D virtual tours with both interior and exterior elements integrated with inventory. Matterport primarily helps showcase the interiors, while our custom tool allows users to view exteriors, amenities, and inventory, making it a part of the larger user journey.
Most users in our company consume the links for pitching to clients, creating more end users. Our properties are often off-plan, with other virtual tour tools used as well, but Matterport is handy when we have a physical property available and ready to scan. This feature is particularly powerful and beneficial to us, limited to the physically built tours that we possess.
As soon as we receive the scan data in Matterport portal, we usually conduct proper reviews within one or two days and perform link extraction to put it on the front-end websites or applications. This process is immediate once the scan data appears.
I would suggest anyone considering Matterport for physical properties use it, as it is really smooth and fast. Having a professional team for scanning is crucial, as ensuring proper alignment with dimensions and angles is essential for further actions. The focus should be on the scanning part, confirming that personal teams are used for that. The dashboard and backend functions are pretty much smooth.
I have not worked with DataDome, Enable cove data protection, Oracle CX Sales, Freshsales, Sales Creatio, or Akamai Bot Manager recently, but I have used different tools.
I have used Matterport, which falls under the broader category of immersive technologies alongside Megaport, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Nutanix Flow Network Security, Workspace ONE Intelligence, or similar in networking, infrastructure, or system management.
I would rate Matterport an eight overall.
I generally use Megaport for port forwarding, so whenever I have to make a project in my own local environment and test that it would work in production, then I use Megaport for forwarding the port of my local. And then I integrate that with my company's product and see if it's hitting Megaport requests.
Whenever I open Megaport in the terminal, I start with the HTTP port number, which helps me connect that with my local Visual Studio code editor, so whatever goes through that port will be transported to Megaport terminal. Then I connect the Megaport URL address with my company's product to test it, so whenever I run the code, an ideal request should hit Megaport server.
Everyone uses Megaport in my company, but I also use it solo. I have used Megaport.
Megaport was given to me by my mentors as a tool to use for our use case, so I didn't have any decision play into this.
I think port forwarding is the most highly used feature of Megaport, and since I've used that, all my fellow seniors and teammates have also used that feature only. I think the free tier we are using is free, and it's very easily integratable with no setup guide needed for using it.
There might be other features that came up during implementation, but we didn't have any use case for those; the only concern for us was the port forwarding, and that's why we were using Megaport.
It is actually pretty important for us; our day starts with Megaport. I think it has contributed significantly because without it, if we had used some other local code editor and then tested manually every time, it would have taken a lot more time. I think it has improved our efficiency almost by fifty percent, and obviously, our productivity has increased so much.
My suggestion would be for Megaport to make the terminal more user-friendly; I use Windows, so it's not a problem, but I'm not sure how it would work in Linux or Ubuntu-based systems. Also, it works more efficiently on a Mac system versus a Windows one, so I think they should improve the Windows experience. Other than that, I don't have any suggestions for now; it's a good product.
When I first implemented Megaport, the first issue I faced was that I had a problem with the terminal not opening, which was an issue on my PC since I had not put the correct address. After that, I haven't faced any Megaport issues, and it's pretty stable.
I think everyone in our company working in the tech domain, especially the full stack developers, uses Megaport in the same way for port transforming, and I don't think anyone is a super user; everyone is using it in a casual way.
There was no training needed for Megaport; it was very easy to use, actually. We just had to download it and use it as we use our local Studio Code editor.
I think everyone in our company working in the tech domain, especially the full stack developers, uses Megaport in the same way for port transforming, and I don't think anyone is a super user; everyone is using it in a casual way. I would rate this product nine out of ten.
The best features of Megaport for my work mainly involve the scalable bandwidth, as we have multiple data centers across India, which means my internet bandwidth and internal communication bandwidth will be higher.
When I use Megaport for my data centers, what I personally find most helpful is that it reduces the complexity and is used for virtual cross connect between Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.
Megaport impacts my organization by not necessarily lowering cost, but it reduces a lot of time and increases the bandwidth, which increases the performance, especially in terms of overall company performance and network performance.
If I could improve Megaport, I would say the missing feature is difficult to identify because we have used it mostly on Megaport. However, the part that can improve is that it should be a little bit easier to use and more user-friendly. The number of features and ease of features can be improved.
I have been familiar with Megaport for the last two years.
I would definitely recommend Megaport to someone considering it.

We are a reseller of products and provide services and products to our end customers, using solutions like Megaport.
Depending on the customer requirements, we sometimes need to combine different solutions or rely on our in-house capabilities.
Megaport simplifies the connectivity process. It allows you to log in to their portal page, select the modules, bandwidth, cloud side, and then initiate the connection swiftly. This ease of use in management and configuration fascinates end customers and aids in the management of their IT infrastructure.
The pricing model of Megaport is appealing, along with its flexibility in providing connectivity to end customers. The process is very streamlined, allowing for quick configuration and management.
There are no notable complaints from customers regarding Megaport, and there hasn't been any identified need for improvement.
We have been utilizing Megaport for close to five years now.
We have not experienced any stability issues and have not received any complaints from customers regarding this.
There hasn't been any need to contact Megaport's customer support that I can recall.
Neutral
The initial setup is very quick and efficient. Within an hour, you can have configurations set up, which makes it really simple.
The solution simplifies management, provides flexibility, and facilitates easier management of IT infrastructure, which contributes positively to ROI.
The pricing model is one of the features I personally like about Megaport.
Aviatrix is another tool that is similar to Megaport. It also provides additional features like a transit gateway between clouds.
There is competition from other companies, so Megaport needs to improve its visibility and market itself as a one-stop-shop solution.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.