We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"The most valuable features of Cisco DNA Center are wireless assurance and visibility."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it gives some kind of ease in operations, especially since our company is moving from CLI to GUI-based configuration."
"The automation features are significant, reducing configuration time. This means outstanding functionality. By deploying the controller automatically, the rest becomes automated"
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"Application Assurance works very well."
"It's user-friendly."
"They can improve the network visibility. Licensing and its maintenance are also needed."
"There should be an option for automation of template deployment by using the stored data. It is not easy to save configuration information for lots of devices without using other tools. There should be a tighter, better repository of information that can be merged with the templates."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"This is a relatively expensive product."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is ranked 16th in Network Management Applications with 1 review. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is rated 9.0. 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 SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper writes "Very user-friendly and stable". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Huawei eSight, whereas SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager and Aruba Airwave.
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