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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE pros and cons

Vendor: NETSCOUT

4.1 out of 5

51 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE offers proactive bandwidth management and deep packet inspection for network insights and troubleshooting efficiency. Despite real-time data transformation benefits and significant ROI through precise data analysis, the tool is complex, requiring expert management and costly initial setup. Higher pricing and frequent code bugs challenge affordability and reliability, while its limited scalability increases operational complexity and costs, potentially limiting appeal for tech buyers seeking a streamlined, cost-effective solution.

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PROS

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE enables proactive and predictive bandwidth capacity management, allowing users to reduce dependency on suppliers and gain insights into network hotspots.

The detailed traffic analysis and application-specific monitoring features help users understand patterns, packet loss, jitter, or high latency that could impact the network.

Deep packet inspection facilitates low-level packet analysis, improving troubleshooting efficiency and understanding of communication paths.

Real-time data transformation into actionable insights aids faster issue detection and root cause analysis, allowing users to provide evidence to vendors for problem resolution.

Scalability and the ability to capture raw traffic inline help users filter and analyze the correct network data, representing a significant return on investment.

CONS

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is complex and requires expert management, increasing operational costs.

Frequent code upgrades introduce bugs that can disrupt data collection.

Pricing is 15-18% higher than competitors, with significant support costs, making it less affordable.

Initial setup is complicated and time-consuming, demanding extensive build and configuration.

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE lacks scalability, requiring numerous bare metal servers, increasing complexity and cost.

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Pros review quotes

Technology Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Apr 26, 2016

It's easy to detect unwanted traffic with all the detection tools available.

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MA

Global Telecom Operations Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 4, 2018

We are using nGeniusONE to run our bandwidth capacity management reports. In the past, we used to be very reactive, we used to depend a lot on suppliers to tell us which sites are our hot sites, meaning, which have high bandwidth utilization. Now we do this in a much more proactive way and we are moving to a more predictive approach in that aspect, thanks to nGeniusONE.

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JC

Senior Director of Enterprise IT Operations at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 29, 2018

The biggest benefit is the ability to do low-level packet inspection. When I say packet inspection, I don't mean looking at payload, but just looking at your communication handshakes and the like. It reduces troubleshooting time because you can get a much better view into the communications path between servers, database servers, web servers, and understand what's going on.

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Dominic Nazzise

Network Operations Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 5, 2018

Aside from having the logs that are just on the firewall, we're able to get the traffic as it's going in between, throughout our network. It isolates end sources that are having issues, where we don't have any other tools that would be able to go down to an end-user's computer to find out what's going on.

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MO

Data Communications Engineering Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

Deep packet inspection is probably the strongest feature.

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Systems Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 21, 2019

With the Vprobes, we quickly identified issues on the application servers, which we normally couldn't, where it usually would be a full circle round between our NOC and server people.

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reviewer1070613

Manager, Field Network at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Apr 21, 2019

Valuable features include data threat detection, network analytics, and overall bandwidth monitoring.

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Principal SIP Engineer

Apr 21, 2019

It gives me the MOS, latency, and jitter.

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JJ

Reginal Switch Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 21, 2019

For me, the most valuable features are the dashboards which we use to highlight the overall impact to the customers, and being able to drill down into the nitty-gritty of the customer experience.

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AT

Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 21, 2019

The fact that it's able to capture and store packets from the wires is very useful for troubleshooting with our vendors, when issues do come up. It's valuable that we have that overall data for them.

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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Cons review quotes

Technology Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Apr 26, 2016

It needs a better GUI, and especially it needs to be more user-friendly.

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MA

Global Telecom Operations Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 4, 2018

It's not intuitive, it's not simple to use. It is probably the only monitoring tool, out of all the ones that I have, that I really need an expert on, an expert from nGenius, a contractor that I have to pay, to manage the tool. And that's because it's simply not easy to use. Netscout needs to focus on making it easier to use.

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JC

Senior Director of Enterprise IT Operations at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 29, 2018

The GUI has gotten better over time but there could be some improvement in how the GUI is built.

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Dominic Nazzise

Network Operations Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 5, 2018

I'd like to see the nGeniusONE, the nGeniusPULSE, and the OptiView, their three separate products, work a little better together, a little more streamlined.

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MO

Data Communications Engineering Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

There are so many pieces of their product that integrate with one another that perhaps a recommendation for improvement would be some sort of bigger overview and map to help understand how all their pieces integrate together.

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Systems Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 21, 2019

I would like more in-depth convergence between all the applications, especially when I look for information through a data mine.

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reviewer1070613

Manager, Field Network at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Apr 21, 2019

The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there.

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Principal SIP Engineer

Apr 21, 2019

I would love to have them reassemble fragmented packets. That would be a very big plus in my book.

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JJ

Reginal Switch Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 21, 2019

A lot of tools highlight what's going on but they don't actually pinpoint the user experience. It would be good if there were a small message or something highlighting what the user experience is like and any degradation that's actually occurring.

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AT

Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 21, 2019

For individual subscriber tracings, sometimes it does not capture all the messages. There is a little bit of room for improvement there.

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