We performed a comparison between Apstra Operating System and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."Apstra Operating System's most important features are the security and AB test to define what approach we need to take in my company. Additionally, the solution does not take a lot of maintenance."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"The solution helps with the management and orchestration of campaigns. It helps with visibility and analytics. I also like its SDA configuration."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"The automation features are significant, reducing configuration time. This means outstanding functionality. By deploying the controller automatically, the rest becomes automated"
"It offers automation, security enforcement, analytics, and integration with other Cisco technologies, making it a key driver for efficient network operations and compliance with security protocols."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"The report data could improve in Apstra Operating System."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"In terms of the clustering part, there are some concerns."
"There is a limitation with the number of VRFs that you can have in your network, and this has caused us problems with some customers."
"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 could be improved is the licensing cost of Cisco DNA Center. It's a little bit expensive."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"The tool's IoT integration should be better."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
Apstra Operating System is ranked 9th in Network Automation while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews. Apstra Operating System is rated 8.0, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apstra Operating System writes "Highly secure, useful AB test, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Apstra Operating System is most compared with VMware NSX, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and ExtremeCloud IQ.
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