OptiView XG [EOL] Valuable Features

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President at Bitwise Micro

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.

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it_user613524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The packet capture feature is valuable when there's a troubleshooting issue. Since this is a data center, there are thousands of servers/users.

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it_user479514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Packet sniffing - it allows us to see where there are communication errors between devices.

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it_user479022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Telecom Project Leader at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We are leveraging it with the Wi-Fi analytics software, and also Wi-Fi survey and design software. Specific to my group, we're responsible for Wi-Fi design. Those are the features that we use primarily.

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it_user496344 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer Supervisor at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • All of the wireless applications
  • The packet sniffer

This product helps troubleshoot problems, find issues and fix them.

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it_user496356 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of this product is the sniffer, where we can troubleshoot user connections by identifying the source and destination, to try to get to the root cause. I'm in the operations role, so I'm always trying to get to the root cause.

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it_user260031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Failure Analysis Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The WiFi debugging features. It's called Debug. It helps solve issues that we deal with, with our product.

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Senior Network Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Network discover: We use it for fiber testing, for checking all the packets that are going in and out, availability, bandwidth, etc.
  • We don't necessarily use it every day, but every time we have some issues with the network, we use it. This could be once a week, twice a month, or three times a month.
  • I usually have it turned on all the time just to scan the network for problems.
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it_user529335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

The 10 GigE connectivity and ClearSight are the most valuable features for us.

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it_user480723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Admin at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use it most for data capture or to troubleshoot issues on the production floor, because of intermittent issues we're having with communications, not knowing if it's a network problem or an application issue, and this helps us narrow it down.

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it_user602421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We have only been using it for site survey. I've used spectrum analysis as well, just to see what is on the wireless. I haven't used it too much, but it's on our network.

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it_user490692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it to run wireless only. From a wireless perspective, it's a great tool for going out in the field and seeing what's going on.

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it_user599022 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager/Director at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most valuable to me is its size and the applications that are loaded on it. It's like a Swiss Army Knife. It's in a tablet size, but not like a laptop. It has handles and straps so it's easy to carry around and survey. The bulkiness I accept only because I need the extra battery life. I don't know if there's a way to do all that stuff and not have the battery capacity. We ordered extra batteries so we can swap them out and keep surveying.

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it_user713268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager

Gives us the ability to see our network.

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it_user225462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it more or less for the troubleshooting aspect of wires and wireless.

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it_user651840 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are looking at packet loss, tracking the packets which are going to and from a tap to figure out exactly what the problems are with the traffic movement.

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it_user490686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Contractor at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The device is easy to use and is effective very quickly. I can plug it into a network and troubleshoot it in 15 minutes and pinpoint problems that would take days to do otherwise. It is an expensive device but, if you are going to use it, it pays for itself in time and effectiveness.

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it_user496347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Enterprise Systems with 501-1,000 employees
  • Analysis of the packets across the network
  • Application monitoring

We use these features for troubleshooting rogue applications. We look for lost packets when we're having issues across our wide area network.

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it_user260031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Failure Analysis Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
  • Interface
  • Ease of use
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it_user368679 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Tech at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

We use it for key devices to let us know if we lost communication with any of them. We use it if we get a complaint about slowness or whatever on the network but for the most part, to let us know of problems with communication to like the switches or servers.

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it_user147555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
For me, it's the clearsight, the possibility to capture and see clearly what is occurring is fantastic. Previously, I would spend hours and hours checking the flow of traffic using Wireshark for example. View full review »
it_user480744 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The ability to a packet capture on the fly and more recently, to use the ClearSight software to analyze it. From an operational standpoint, when you have an issue in the data center you want the ability to not only do a packet capture but also to do a packet capture at a line speed up to 10 GB which is critical in a data center.

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it_user108435 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
  • It's an integrated, purposed package. 
  • It's fairly portable, durable, and usually easy to upgrade hardware to current standards (10gb for example).
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it_user496365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst/Quality Analyst at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

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. That's very helpful, and then drill down to the switch.

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it_user138162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Line-Rate Packet Capture, AirMagnet Integration, ClearSight Analyzer Software. View full review »
it_user112176 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The network discovery ability. View full review »
it_user496350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The pre-site survey and the AirMagnet site survey help my company in pre-sales and post-sales.

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it_user490671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Packet capture is a valuable feature. It's a network troubleshooting tool.

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it_user480750 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist II at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We don't use them much unless we have an issue. We do the packet capture feature, we do the bandwidth testing and we even get to use the wireless scanning features they have. Those are the features we use.

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it_user279882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Services Coordinator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

All the wireless features are valuable. Also, the Layer 2 trace routing is pretty valuable. In general, it's a very nice product, works well, and it does what they say.

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it_user259992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's too soon to tell.

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