Keysight Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes comparison

Keysight Technologies and Tektronix are both solutions in the Oscilloscopes category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #4, while Tektronix is ranked #3. Keysight Technologies holds a 12.6% mindshare in O, compared to Tektronix’s 16.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Keysight Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tektronix users who would recommend it.

Keysight Oscilloscopes

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100% willing to recommend

Tektronix Oscilloscopes

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and Tektronix Oscilloscopes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Oscilloscopes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Keysight Oscilloscopes vs. Tektronix Oscilloscopes Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs. Tektronix Oscilloscopes

October 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Keysight Oscilloscopes

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 12.6%, down from 19.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tektronix Oscilloscopes is 16.2%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Oscilloscopes

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Rockwell Hsu

Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc.

We are able to easily record and save our test setup

The most valuable features are its quality and reliability. The type of instrument they make is pretty much the industry standard and trustworthy. They align R&D and design their equipment well, including post-processing stuff. The user interface is getting better due to a lot of feedback from users. With testing getting more complicated these days, you have to go through a lot of different drop-down menus and then go through a lot of steps. It's hard to say there is an easy solution, but of course, from the user's point of view, we would like to have something as simple as possible. The good thing about the GUI interface which is, of course, software-based, is that you can record and save your test setup very easily.

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Curtis Jones

Teacher (emeritus) at San Jose State University

High sampling rate enables it to clearly render the envelope

I wish we could turn off the automatic measurement feature of the oscilloscope, for teaching purposes. This probably sounds weird, but I think it important that students get familiar with the waveforms and actually count divisions. This gives a feel for how many digits are really significant, that noise can be part of signals, that it helps to increase the sensitivity to fill as much of the screen as possible and maybe notice artifacts. e.g. Students might be asked to measure frequency response of a circuit with a uA 741 op amp. If the signal level chosen is too high and students don't actually watch the waveform they may not realize the numbers come from the slew-rate limit and not the frequency response. I actually recognized the problem of the seductiveness of digital displays in another lab where students used a lock-in amplifier with both a digital display and a d'Arsonval meter. The voltage went through large changes in value, and students were happily writing down the numbers when the instrument was on a totally inappropriate range. So for the first electrical-engineering lab I think forcing the students to rely on measuring the waveform themselves and not relying on the scope to do it for them gets them started well.

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Pros

"Its 4 port has true differential with quite a few de-embedding features. It goes up to 40 GHz with high performance."

"It can go up to a very high frequency, up to 120 gigahertz. And the user interface is really good. It's really easy to navigate."

"The Keysight Ecal feature has made it very easy for me to do calibrations."

"We rely on the data and we make our design calls, risk-assessment, all based on the measurements that we take with the Keysight equipment."

"It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops."

"The customer support is very good. If you need an application to do any measurement, you can easily get a hold of people to help you with it. This is a whole ecosystem."

"The product's functionality makes things easier for my partner, who is doing the PCIe design. He is able measure the product's usage and bit error rate."

"The user interface is simple and straightforward, so I can easily measure frequency, time, and other complex measurements."

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"The user interface is good, not very complicated. It is very intuitive."

"The user interface is excellent. The GUI is so self-explanatory and there are the same knobs everywhere; the design is a standard design line."

"B-scan is its most valuable feature."

"This solution provides high confidence in the data being presented in the measurement to inform a design decision going forward."

"Time domain measurement is very accurate compared to other devices."

"It takes 35 to 45 minutes to get acclimated to the solution."

"It provides you the best way to view information without opening multiple applications, like a single solution."

"I trust Tektronix for its accuracy. The probes of solution fit my application. E.g., the speed of probes, the way that it is using probes with designs, and the probes' size."

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Cons

"The user interface can be buggy at times. But I'm an engineer, I figure out how to get around them pretty easily so that's not that much of a concern."

"We tried to connect multiple computers with a KVM switch but we could not do that using Keysight VNA. Keysight VNA comes with the PC inside it. We have other equipment as well, and we tried to combine it so that we had one monitor to control everything. With Keysight we could not do it. That's something of an inconvenience."

"I would like them to build in more high-speed functions, such as FEC or PCIe, built into the array. PERT to be built-in for more specific product call. These would make our lives much easier."

"I would like more customized functions, so we can do the programming and definitions ourselves. There is an automation flow to capture this signal, and we would like to do this ourselves."

"I would like to see the possibility of interacting with the software, new features for software post-processing. For example, once you're done measuring, it would be nice to be able to generate some data starting from the measurement data."

"The user interface is not that good. It's not very intuitive. It's functional, but it's not designed for ease of operation. It's designed for functionality."

"We are using this product to support connected devices for IoT development, but we need more automation."

"Every component has a manufacturing tolerance. I hope Keysight software can help with the tolerance loss in manufacturing variance, which can be ten percent or five percent. In the real world, we cannot fire a really perfect test with very smooth impedance. I would like to see Keysight provide a solution to solve the issue of loss of manufacturing variance."

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"On the source side, their AWGs don't have enough bandwidth. They need to increase the bandwidth of their AWGs, meaning they have to have a faster sample rate."

"If they could make the user interface even more intuitive that would help. If they could make it easier to read, to know where the buttons are, that's all I need."

"The power of the computer inside is weak. Sometimes I send a lot of data and I'll feel the lag... I would like to see them improve the processing power."

"I am not utilizing the full bandwidth of this product."

"I wish we could turn off the automatic measurement feature of the oscilloscope, for teaching purposes."

"I would like if they could have more customer support engagement."

"We would like more features for the CAN bus decoding, such as importing DDC files, which allows us to take the raw data and convert it into engineering units."

"There are other devices out there which are more capable, offering more features, with as good quality tech support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If we rented the product, it would be more affordable than buying new."

"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."

"Keysight is on the high side. If they could make the price lower without sacrificing the quality that would be great."

"The pricing is on the high side."

"It's expensive, but the quality matters."

"We are looking at $600,000 and it's obviously expensive, but compared to others, everybody is in the same ballpark."

"It's very expensive because this type of equipment is not so common. For a company buying it, this is a big investment."

"It's very expensive."

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"I would like to see a lower price."

"In the 100 gigabit Ethernet and 400 gigabit Ethernet category, everything is in the multi-hundred thousand dollar range, so it was fair pricing because everything is expensive."

"Isolated probes are good to have, as most of the scopes don't have it. It drives up the cost when you have to buy isolated probes."

"The pricing is not too high and not too low."

"We demoed the product before purchasing it."

"Tecktronix pricing tends to be pretty fair and reasonable with current market trends. They don't usually bump up the price too much."

"It could always be cheaper."

"It costs a quarter of a million. This technology is not cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

University

12%

Educational Organization

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

19%

University

12%

Educational Organization

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 34% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 13% of the time

RIGOL Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series

TBS Series, TDS Series, MDO Series, MSO Series

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Keysight Technologies

Tektronix

Overview

More engineers are switching to Keysight oscilloscopes because they help you:

Get your products to market faster with award-winning oscilloscopes that offer the fastest update rates, the deepest memory, the industry’s only capacitive touch screen, and the most oscilloscope software options.
Produce the highest-performing products with measurements you can trust thanks to oscilloscopes with industry-leading signal integrity and the largest selection of oscilloscope probes.
Achieve the lowest cost of ownership with multiple instruments in one mainframe and easy upgrades.
Get a compact instrument with zero compromise in functionality with the Keysight Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes.

8 out of 10 engineers around the world trust Tektronix to help them debug and test tomorrow's designs faster. With the broadest portfolio of digital oscilloscopes available, the richest set of product features, the most extensive analysis capability and our award-winning service and support, Tektronix has the right oscilloscope to meet your needs.

Sample Customers

Nokia Bell Labs

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