We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."Good user profiling and BYOD facilities."
"It helps secure IoT endpoints for specific networks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"The product offers an intuitive and automated way to manage user networks. It gives me an insight into the network health."
"Application Assurance works very well."
"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."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"There could be in-built end-to-end map integration features for IoT devices instead of using third-party tools."
"Lacks application level visibility on the dashboard."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"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."
"DNA Center has been on the market for a few years and they need to update it."
"The solution's integration feature can be better."
"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 product has many features that do not work properly."
"The tool's deployment is complex. It also needs to improve its GUI."
"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."
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is ranked 20th in Network Management Applications with 2 reviews while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 36 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is rated 9.0, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass writes "Has an automated feature for user onboarding and supports heterogeneous devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is most compared with Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance.
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