HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) vs. Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.	N/A
Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Keysight Network Test, consisting of the former Ixia BreakingPoint and Ixia Hawkeye product brands, among other tools, helps the user exceed customer expectations by ensuring high performance of wired, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G/LTE networks in both pre-deployment and real-world environments.	N/A

Pricing

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Top Pros	Pro Easy management Pro Management interface	Pro Ddos protection Pro Data security
Top Cons	Minus Licensing model Minus Last version Minus Needs a little	Minus Private cloud Minus Cloud support Minus Cost effective

Features

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) 9.4 5 Ratings 12% above category average	Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye) - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	8.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	8.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Likelihood to Recommend	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy. Incentivized BB Bharath B Lead Consultant Read full review	Keysight Technologies Keysight BreakingPoint Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service Cybersecurity Assessment Platform which ensures optimal configuration of DDoS protection services and performs regularly scheduled validations using an always up-to-date library of DDoS attacks. BreakingPoint Cloud has intelligence of more than 20 years of leadership in network security testing to reveal your security exposure across public, private, and hybrid networks. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Multivendor flexibility. Topology map features. Backup configurations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Keysight Technologies Scalability DDoS Protection Data Security Compliance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Keysight Technologies Cost Effective Multi Vendor Support Private Cloud support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Hewlett Packard Enterprise They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Keysight Technologies No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Keysight Technologies Keysight Breaking Point stacks up against others as it has an intelligence for more than 20 years. It gives evidence to document DDoS protection compliance to comply the regulatory compliance. To eliminate attacks, Keysight’s Breaking Point Cloud provides a real time IP validation, confirming you can simulate DDoS tests only against resources on your Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Easy to implement Easy to configure Overall good monitoring tool Incentivized BB Bharath B Lead Consultant Read full review	Keysight Technologies Data Center Micro Segmentation Scada Network Security Application and Threat Intelligence Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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