We performed a comparison between Ixia Hawkeye and Meraki Dashboard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve integration with non-Cisco platforms."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Zabbix. See our Ixia Hawkeye vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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