We performed a comparison between Cisco Network Assurance Engine and Ekahau Site Survey based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."It is scalable from the beginning. It is a product that you can scale upwards whenever you want."
"It is easy to set up."
"The standout feature of Cisco Network Assurance Engine is its ability to proactively detect and prevent network issues before they occur."
"In a short amount of time, you can see what went wrong on a screen in a report."
"Channel planning, access points' auto position, and the size of the spectrum are valuable to me."
"Ekahau Site Survey is scalable."
"Ekahau lets you create heat maps without doing the initial survey. It makes the task easier."
"I have found the most valuable feature is the RF interference and integration capabilities."
"The troubleshooting tools are the most valuable feature of the solution."
"We are satisfied with the way this product is working."
"The most valuable feature of Ekahau Site Survey is the predictive survey."
"I don't handle the software that much. I'll do some of the testing with our CTO. It is primarily him and I. He has commented before that he likes the fact that with two licenses, we can set it up so that when we're on a large facility, he can see where I am and I can see where he is. That's for sure is very handy in large venues."
"At the beginning, the setup was complex."
"The scalability is one of the biggest failures of the solution."
"It needs authentication beyond just local and LDAP. It should also have TACACS+ and RADIUS."
"To enhance Cisco Network Assurance Engine, simplifying its interface and making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"Most features are there, but the network adapter support should be better. Ekahau should support all laptops and versions. There's an issue with the driver too."
"Lacks an in-app photo app or a way to upload photos while carrying out an active onsite survey."
"We were actually able to recover some access points in some areas that were over saturated. So I I can leave at least two areas where we probably had twice as many access points as we needed to. So we actually redesigned it and pulled some of those access points where I don't know that there was any proper planning done when they were initially deployed. It was before my time, but it just seemed way over saturated, and they were all beaten on each other. So Site wasn't helping. It was probably hurting, and we saved equipment that we could then deploy somewhere else. This can be improved."
"The information regarding the clients and signal strengths is missing in the Ekahau console."
"In all of our buildings, whenever we deploy wireless access points, we also have to deploy wireless intrusion detections. The Ekahau Site Survey tool doesn't allow us to differentiate between the access point and the intrusion detection device. That's because they're the same devices, but they're configured differently for the type of usage. That's one area that I would ask them to improve. They should allow the identification of access points versus wireless intrusion detection."
"Sometimes there is a cancellation between two signals that the solution is not able to monitor correctly, this could improve in the future."
"They should improve the iPad application because it's unstable. Also, Ekahau could be better integrated with other vendors."
"Ekahau would benefit by making improvements to lag time."
Cisco Network Assurance Engine is ranked 6th in Network Modeling and Simulation with 4 reviews while Ekahau Site Survey is ranked 1st in Network Modeling and Simulation with 30 reviews. Cisco Network Assurance Engine is rated 8.0, while Ekahau Site Survey is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Network Assurance Engine writes "Helps to easily detect and resolve issues like security threats, bandwidth usage concerns, and performance bottlenecks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ekahau Site Survey writes "Valuable troubleshooting tools and easy to scale, but outdated documentation, issues with stability, and lacks differentiated survey modes". Cisco Network Assurance Engine is most compared with , whereas Ekahau Site Survey is most compared with AirMagnet Survey, iBwave Wi-Fi, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and RedSeal.
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