OptiView XG [EOL] Reviews

Name: OptiView XG [EOL]
Brand: NETSCOUT
Rating: 4 (38 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

38 reviews

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OptiView XG is the first network analysis tablet designed specifically for the network engineer. It combines critical functions necessary to automate root-cause analysis of both wired and wireless network performance issues – whether network or application related to reduce time for problem identification. OptiView XG supports repeatable, effective troubleshooting – whether pre- or post-deployment.

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Mark_Walker

President at Bitwise Micro

Apr 5, 2021

It just saves time. We have run into situations where contractors come in, and they plug in a WiFi device that is handing out DHCP addresses, which affects the rest of the network. To be able to quickly identify from where the problem is originating, you need a network tool that can identify the device that is doing this. It just brings into clear focus the exact issue when there is a problem or outage. When there is a crisis and you've several people wanting to know an estimate of when things are going to be back up and running again, you need to have answers. I have been at places that didn't have a tool like that. I know one place that had an outage for almost a week, and it was craziness. It turned out to be just a bad cable. That's all it was. They were having trouble with their email server, which was an on-premise email server, but emails were taking six hours to appear. The whole problem was because of a bad network cable. When I plugged in the Fluke analyzer, it analyzed and told me immediately that there were transmission errors on this one port from one switch. It told me this within 10 minutes. It is an incredible product.

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it_user613524

Network Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 21, 2017

The packet capture feature is valuable when there's a troubleshooting issue. Since this is a data center, there are thousands of servers/users When there is a performance issue, we do the sniffer capture on the OptiView XG, and then we analyze the captures. If it helps to determine what the…

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it_user479514

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

Dec 14, 2016

Packet sniffing - it allows us to see where there are communication errors between devices We had two devices that we didn't know what was wrong with them. Communication wasn't working and the graphical interface actually allowed us to see what traffic was being sent to which device. We were able…

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OptiView XG [EOL] market share

As of March 2024, the market share of OptiView XG [EOL] in the Network Monitoring Software category stands at 0.1%, marking an increase of Infinity% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"Gives us the ability to see our network."

Room for Improvement

"Its price can be improved. Their support can also be improved a little bit.In terms of features, it did everything I wanted it to do. With more features, I would have to start installing network agents or something else, and I don't want to have to install anything. This was the value for me about this device."
"I would like a built-in tap feature which doesn't interfere with the network, and it allows you to see what is happening there."

Pricing

"Its price was a bit excessive. The device that I had died. It is under warranty, and they want $20,000 for another one. I just don't want to spend that kind of money, so I'm trying to find an alternate solution.They have annual maintenance on it, which probably was 10% a year, so it all starts to add up."

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OptiView XG [EOL] customers

XG is used in all industries. Example customers include: Republic National Distributing Company, Titelive, CitiGroup, Los Angeles Unified School District, Saudi German Hospital, DeKalb County Schools, Valdosta State University, The Everett Clinic, Bio-Reference, Miami-Dade Library, Mitel, Borsa Istanbul, Cimarex, Air National Guard Lowndes County, High Point City, Carrollton City Schools, Kern County, Pruitt Communications and Bosch Group.

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