Name: Arbor Sightline
Rating: 9.4 (3 reviews)
Author: NETSCOUT

Customer Success Management Training

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Code Generation

Cross-Browser Testing

Product Analytics

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Generative AI

Knowledge Management

Partner Relationship Management

Whistleblowing

Enterprise

Accounting

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Automation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AIOps

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Storage

Consulting and Advisory Services

Container Security

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Center Cooling

Embedded Database

Enterprise Architecture Management

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Simulation

Secure Email Gateway

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Appointment Scheduling

Audience Engagement

Competitive Intelligence

Content Management

Email Marketing

Email Testing

Event Registration

Gamification

Marketing Automation

Online Proofing

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Multichannel Retail

Sales Email Tracking

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Virtualization Security

Security

Apparel

Architecture

Commercial Drone

Mental Health

Oil and Gas

Online Ordering

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Multiple Server Locations

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Arbor Sightline (formerly Arbor SP) is a network behavior analytics platform developed by Arbor Networks, now owned and supported by NETSCOUT.

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Reviews

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Previous version

Lot of updates

Extremely limited

Features are good

Extremely expensive

Better price

Real time

Good amount

Ip address

Time monitoring

Layer 7

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Providing us

Traffic analysis

Powerful reporting

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The first and foremost use of Arbor is in our IT and networking department and it is great to monitor the flow of the traffic across the network and it is the basic problem it is dealing with. It is also assisting us in managing overlay VPNs, and as I have said that it is astounding for monitoring and from monitoring I mean the way it helps us in detecting the problem that occurs in the network. By diagnosing the problem we can prevent it from creating an impact on our business.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

It provides a real-time monitoring feature.
It is amazing in providing us with a thorough report of the traffic and we can analyze traffic.
We can manage overlay VPNs and BGPs and it is assisting us a lot.
We can detect and look for any potential issue in the hotspots and if the BGP gets hijacked as well it is great for monitoring purposes.

Things done well

Arbor is a highly expensive company. this was the major reason behind not going for the Arbor sightline in the first place. Although its features are good but the cost is unjustifiable.
The implementation and the understanding of this tool are full of complexity and perplexity.
I am looking forward to having a new update on it. They used to update their versions quite frequently but it's been a long time they haven’t updated or maybe it is not in their priority lists right now.

Things done poorly

Arbor has the propensity to deal with even the larger firms. I have been using it for a year span and I don’t have any such complaint which is affecting us in a bad way. I can recommend this to all the companies who want to have a good network behavior analysis and to monitor the problems if there is any chance of it to occur and which has the potential to affect the whole working environment of the company.

Monitoring network.
Network analytics.
Reports it provides.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Arbor is good in empower us to monitor the issues in the network.
We can get better traffic analytics and reports are quite detailed.
The price is quite high which makes it a little hard choice for us.

Return on Investment

We chose Cisco because we had past experience with some Cisco products and we were ready to invest a high cost for Cisco Secure but unfortunately it didn’t come up to our expectations and left us in despair. The speed, the price and the analytics of Cisco, everything was just average but when we moved to Arbor we came to realize that market still have some good network analytics tool.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch)

Alternatives

AVG AntiVirus Business Edition, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller, Detectify

Other Software Used

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