"The solution can scale quite well."
"From the standpoint of VoLTE and related things, it's providing visibility into the network and how it operates."
"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations."
"The stability of this product is ok."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution helps to troubleshoot and put our hands on the weak points of customer networks."
"It helps us get to the root cause quickly. It helps us find massive error codes, then we drill down on that error code, knowing that is the source of our problem."
"With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people."
"This solution provides us with increased visibility while conducting IT deployments. E.g., if we have devices which have overloaded or links which have saturated, then this tool tells us exactly what is going on with that link or device. Very few tools do it at this level for things like DDoS."
"We find the product to be expensive."
"Initially, we were having a lot of issues with bugs when using version 6.1.1. There were a lot of problems with the dashboard causing confusion. We worked with our SE and the NETSCOUT engineering team to fix the visibility with the data. There should be a patch release to fix this issue. However, this seems to be working fine for us right now after the 6.2.2 upgrade."
"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."
"There are so many features that it makes it hard to know it all. You end up paying for things that you don't use and probably don't even need. It might be better if Netscout came up with a modular way to pay for what you're going to use and not pay for all of this "white elephant" without being able to take advantage of all of it."
"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."
"They can improve still on the workflows, document their workflows that are commonly used... We don't know some of the workflows yet, and it's not something that you can just read up in the manual. There is some stuff in the help manual and online, but it's to a point where you need to purchase extra training and services from them. You can't just go and read up on it yourself and learn from A to Z..."
"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."
"For individual subscriber tracings, sometimes it does not capture all the messages. There is a little bit of room for improvement there."
"There was a point in GTP where we were creating services on nodes and after that we wanted to have services on APN. We can't have both... There are some limitations with these types of things. When we would like to use a feature, we have to remove another one."
Ixia Network Packet Brokers is ranked 3rd in Network Packet Broker (NPB) with 1 review while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. Ixia Network Packet Brokers is rated 10.0, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ixia Network Packet Brokers writes "Efficient, reliable, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". Ixia Network Packet Brokers is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker, Arista Data ANalyZer, Ixia Bypass Switches and Niagara Packet Brokers, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics and NetBrain.
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