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NETSCOUT TruView vs. Riverbed Modeler (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    TruView

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANETSCOUT TruView is a unified network monitoring and APM tool. TruView is deployed as hardware on-premises, and it can automate capacity planning and environment discovery and configuration.N/A

    Riverbed Modeler (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ARiverbed Modeler provided a comprehensive development environment to model and analyze communication networks and distributed systems. The application has been sunsetted, and is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    TruViewRiverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TruViewRiverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    TruViewRiverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of NETSCOUT TruView and Riverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Feature
    NETSCOUT TruView
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Riverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports5.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    TruViewRiverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TruViewRiverbed Modeler (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NETSCOUT
    Netscout’s TruView monitoring system gives your IT department the perfect view of your network landscape. With the pulse hardware app, you can perform VoIP or HTTP network monitoring tests from specific remote locations and it will populate the analysis results into your console. This will give you perspective on how your sites are performing and detect any out of Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance even before users report it.
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    Riverbed Modeler is well suited for wireless, wired, ZigBee, and Cisco networks. All these scenarios are efficiently designed and simulated using Riverbed Modeler, as all the devices are available in its object pallet, so we just need to drag and drop for the best scenario design in the given dimensions. The simulation results are around 95% accurate. However, it is not suited for data security, as data encryption algorithms are not available in Riverbed Modeler.
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    Pros
    NETSCOUT
    • The app monitoring gives you the details to set different filters and do a quick identification of the root cause of the problem.
    • Remarkable ability to store details of performance to analyze baselining, run advance troubleshooting, error detection and catalog by trends.
    • The ability to sync with a device/interface whether is physical or virtual gives me the standpoint to set analysis upon network traffic across LAN or WAN and also get the insight of Cloud segments, setting the triggers to find out where the behavior changes to non-production traffic.
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    • Allows the USE of C++ In Routing protocol of individual switch nodes
    • Easy to use, Easy to setup a working network model, allows to even have computers and all sorts of peripherals like IP Printers etc
    • You can stress test your network simulation, absolutely fantastic tool, bridges Monte Carlo with visual representations of the network in question
    • Great Customer Support
    • Good training articles available online, used as a staple in university setting.
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    Cons
    NETSCOUT
    • Product features are sometimes overwhelming if the IT team is not used to this technology. For a small and mid-size company, the number of settings and work that is needed to implement the solution could be a long and exhausting process.
    • A "lite" version of Visual TruView could help a lot to small sized environments looking to develop the solution.
    • I would like to add some mitigation tools for simple/common problems that could be easily managed by a monitoring tool like Netscout TruView.
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    • Riverbed Modeler needs to improve the scenarios of LAN MAN WAN, as the available scenarios under all of these follow a simple area structure that's not connected to the ISP when it comes to simulation. This generates dummy traffic.
    • Riverbed Modeler also needs to work on the selection of result sets so that, as with most designed networks, we can select any result parameter to show. All the parameters are displayed, whether they are relevant or not. It needs to display only relevant result parameters to select.
    • The back-end TCP/IP model needs more clarity to expose the structure to some changes.
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    Support Rating
    NETSCOUT
    As mentioned before, our deployment success depended on their expertise. Recommendations and overall response from their support engineers was out of this world. We, as supporters ourselves, are very critical in regards to the response times and knowledge of support services representatives. Often they just want to resolve your ticket not caring about the result, or focus only on the performance review we could give them. That's a standard behavior in most overseas support centers. The TruView engineers and management cared about us, our needs, and how they delivered the help we needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    NETSCOUT
    Visual TruView is a solid competitor with solutions such as SolarWinds NPM, Nagios, PRTG, or SolarWinds NTA. Why we chose TruView was because it goes straight to what we were looking for, no hidden modules or subscriptions to secondaries licensing terms, to get the results that we were expecting. TruView takes it to another level.
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    Discontinued Products
    The only thing comparable to OPNET is Packet Tracer, which is basic and very limited. Packet Tracer in terms of tool comparison between the two is like OPNET's stone-age relative.
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    Return on Investment
    NETSCOUT
    • Tool consolidation, an amazing GUI that shows the most from the very beginning helping the IT Teams to set their own dashboards according to their needs.
    • When they meant one price tag, that's it! You won't get a headache after the purchase process is done.
    • Better be ready to set the scales your organization requires because if you miss something in the design you could get an application size that overrides your initial budget.
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    Discontinued Products
    • It comes with a costly paid license, but simulating the network before actual deployment saves a lot of costs, in case after deployment we feel performance is not good and we need to change. This would waste a lot of money, but Riverbed saves this money.
    • Its OPNET GURU academic edition is available free of cost, but with limited functionality, which is good for students in maximum case. This will degrade our sale of Riverbed Modeler.
    • A one-time investment in Modeler saves a lot of cost regarding networks, topology, designing, and provides a lifetime license with updates.
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