Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye) vs. PathSolutions TotalView

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

TotalView is well suited for an infrastructure where you are looking for a cost-effective, additive network management tool for in-depth device diagnostic information. This will not be a one-stop shop application, but it does what is advertised very well. SNMP is required for configuration and adding additional devices is quick and simple. This product also works well with Shoretel VoIP systems and allows for a full overview of connected phones along with being able to view calls on an extension/IP basis.

• Scalability
• DDoS Protection
• Data Security Compliance

Incentivized

• The setup is fast and easy - 500 devices in 20 minutes.
• The ability to go back a day or a week in time allows us to more easily troubleshoot the "what happened at 3 a.m. yesterday" question.
• It gives us easily accessible stats for checks and balances like device types, counts, models, serial number etc.

• Cost Effective
• Multi Vendor Support
• Private Cloud support

Incentivized

• If you have some complexities in your network addressing, the network diagram tool will lay everything out automatically, but it will be confusing to look at. There is a way to edit the diagram so it looks more intuitive, but it may require some time to edit everything the right way.
• TotalView will count virtual interfaces such as voice dial-peers and service modules as "ports," which counts against your license count. However, there is a way to edit each device to remove these "false positives" so it doesn't suck up licenses, but it can take some time to clean those up.

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

The three tools listed do different things with some similarities. For us the biggest need was data analysis, semi-automatic troubleshooting, and data gathering and topology mapping. TotalView hit the most of these in the price point we were looking for. Each tool has "extras," but we felt that the extras provided by TotalView were good enough and that the other tools didn't justify the cost.

• Data Center Micro Segmentation
• Scada Network Security
• Application and Threat Intelligence

Incentivized

• Wuite possibly the best spent money i have recommended in my 20+ year IT career.