We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"Application Assurance works very well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"It does a lot of things automatically, and that's the big thing with it. They're making the software so that you don't need to be as knowledgeable as me on the switching and routing side to get your work done. If you want, you can have DNA troubleshoot your problem for you and give you solutions or fix it itself, if it was something that's just a configuration issue."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"DNA Center has been on the market for a few years and they need to update it."
"It seems to be a little bit more centered toward wireless than wired. You've got more options you can do wirelessly than you can with the wired switches, but it works for what we need it to do. We would like to see a little bit more about the traffic, and we're looking at what's out there to see about that. We are looking at something that might give us a bit more insight into the actual traffic. If they had the full functionality on the wired side, as they do on the wireless side in terms of being able to view traffic and everything, it would be good."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"The product doesn’t have good monitoring capabilities."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our Cisco DNA Center vs. DX Spectrum report.
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