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We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and Tektronix Oscilloscopes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The technical support is good, and it has very strong customer support. They sent an engineer to us who gave us some training and tutorials.""It has the highest bandwidth and resolution on the market.""It does everything that I need it to with the PLTS software and the network analyzer software.""It can go up to a very high frequency, up to 120 gigahertz. And the user interface is really good. It's really easy to navigate.""It breaks down all the parameters that we need to look at.""It's a one-stop solution. It does everything we need. The combined functionality is the biggest benefit.""The user interface is nice. It describes the output well, so it's easy to use.""The customer support is very good. If you need an application to do any measurement, you can easily get a hold of people to help you with it. This is a whole ecosystem."

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"The sensitivity of the trigger and the reliability are the most valuable features.""The most valuable features are its ease of use, user interface, and PAM-4. The user interface is good and easy to use.""The most valuable feature is the automation component in setting up some of these measurements.""The Ipath and measurements are fantastic and simple to implement.""Valuable features include that it's multi-channel... and has bandwidth filtering. The user interface is good.""It is easy to handle, so everyone likes to use it.""Tektronix is robust and reliable. It's a hammer-resistant machine, a fact which is most important on our manufacturing floor.""I haven't seen anything similar where it has a spectrum analyzer and regular scope together."

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Cons
"The technical support is okay, but sometimes they are on a different page than us. If it is something wrong with the scope, they are okay. However, if something technical goes wrong, like the calibration, it is hard to get the information that we need because it is hard to share everything and explain all the measurements in real-time.""Some of the models have only two ports. It takes much longer to use a two-port. If they had a four-port, it would be much better.""I would like more customized functions, so we can do the programming and definitions ourselves. There is an automation flow to capture this signal, and we would like to do this ourselves.""Their GUI is not the best. They need to improve on that. I think their software team needs to put in a little bit more work on how they are presenting the application on the scope.""While the user interface is good with respect to instrumentation, but with respect to documentation, I do not like it. Its documentation is slightly bad. It was not organized properly. The way it's organized is very difficult to understand, so it takes lot of time to search for one thing in particular.""Sometimes, it's quite hard to get the technical support to come onsite. If we run into a hardware, measurement, or software issue, we may have to wait a long time for them to come.""I would like more accuracy, particularly for multiport measurements.""We are using this product to support connected devices for IoT development, but we need more automation."

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"There are other devices out there which are more capable, offering more features, with as good quality tech support.""We would like more features for the CAN bus decoding, such as importing DDC files, which allows us to take the raw data and convert it into engineering units.""It needs one button and every time you push it, you get whatever you need.""We are looking for an Intel platform with the newest chipset.""I would like to see more integration into machine learning because that's what we try to apply it to.""I am not utilizing the full bandwidth of this product.""The ruggedness could be improved.""They need to add more memory to this machine."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The major factor influencing the decision-makers is the price."
  • "The pricing is good for what they offer."
  • "If we rented the product, it would be more affordable than buying new."
  • "The pricing is on the high side."
  • "It's very expensive because this type of equipment is not so common. For a company buying it, this is a big investment."
  • "It would be good if it were a little bit cheaper, of course."
  • "We are looking at $600,000 and it's obviously expensive, but compared to others, everybody is in the same ballpark."
  • "The cost is always a struggle. We always wish that we could do more for less."
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  • "The prices are compatible with what they offer. Going forward, I would like them to become more competitive and dominant with their pricing in the market."
  • "They're all pretty expensive. If everything costs that much, I suppose the pricing is fair."
  • "I would like to see a lower price."
  • "It's cost-effective... It might cost a lot of money, but if we need it we buy it."
  • "The pricing is not too high and not too low."
  • "It could always be cheaper."
  • "Isolated probes are good to have, as most of the scopes don't have it. It drives up the cost when you have to buy isolated probes."
  • "Tektronix Oscilloscopes are really expensive for small businesses. The low-end scopes don't really compare performance-wise to what the other companies provide, like RIGOL . Mostly that just has to do with the software options."
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    Buyer's Guide
    Oscilloscopes
    March 2024
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    Also Known As
    InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series
    TBS Series, TDS Series, MDO Series, MSO Series
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    Overview

    More engineers are switching to Keysight oscilloscopes because they help you:

    • Get your products to market faster with award-winning oscilloscopes that offer the fastest update rates, the deepest memory, the industry’s only capacitive touch screen, and the most oscilloscope software options.
    • Produce the highest-performing products with measurements you can trust thanks to oscilloscopes with industry-leading signal integrity and the largest selection of oscilloscope probes.
    • Achieve the lowest cost of ownership with multiple instruments in one mainframe and easy upgrades.
    • Get a compact instrument with zero compromise in functionality with the Keysight Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes.

    8 out of 10 engineers around the world trust Tektronix to help them debug and test tomorrow's designs faster. With the broadest portfolio of digital oscilloscopes available, the richest set of product features, the most extensive analysis capability and our award-winning service and support, Tektronix has the right oscilloscope to meet your needs.

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    Nokia Bell Labs
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company92%
    Pharma/Biotech Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company18%
    University13%
    Educational Organization10%
    Computer Software Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Aerospace/Defense Firm13%
    Transportation Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company18%
    University12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise86%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise66%
    Buyer's Guide
    Oscilloscopes
    March 2024
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    Keysight Oscilloscopes is ranked 3rd in Oscilloscopes while Tektronix Oscilloscopes is ranked 2nd in Oscilloscopes. Keysight Oscilloscopes is rated 8.4, while Tektronix Oscilloscopes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Keysight Oscilloscopes writes "We are able to easily record and save our test setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tektronix Oscilloscopes writes "High sampling rate enables it to clearly render the envelope". Keysight Oscilloscopes is most compared with Siglent, RIGOL Oscilloscopes, Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes, Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes and National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes, whereas Tektronix Oscilloscopes is most compared with Siglent, Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes, Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes, RIGOL Oscilloscopes and Yokogawa Oscilloscopes.

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