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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller vs. Colasoft Capsa

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager, or DCNM) is a monitoring and management platform. It is optimized for large organizations and enterprises, particularly with data centers.N/A

    Colasoft Capsa

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AColasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
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    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerColasoft Capsa
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerColasoft Capsa
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Datacenter spine life architecture with 2 pods, you can cover any scenario. It's easy to connect the firewall and to deploy the VXLAN configuration.
    Incentivized
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    Colasoft
    Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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    Pros
    Cisco
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    Colasoft
    • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
    • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
    • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller with interface groups
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    Colasoft
    • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
    • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
    • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    Renewing NDFC is a smart strategic move. It transforms manual network management into an automated, policy-driven infrastructure. By leveraging real-time telemetry and centralized control for data center LANs and SANs, your organization gains the scalability, visibility, simplicity, and security needed for complex management operations in modern, high-performance data centers ecc
    Incentivized
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    Colasoft
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    Performance
    Cisco
    That’s a great automation suits and easy to use
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    Colasoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller is much more efficient and programmable; EPN is like template-ready software without automation. Instead, NDFC is very useful during configuration and deployment.
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    Colasoft
    Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Security has been a great paramount from day one
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    Colasoft
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Time on configuration.
    • Setup
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    Colasoft
    • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
    • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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