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NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG vs NETSCOUT nGeniusONE comparison

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked #77, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.5. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT nGeniusONE’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE users who would recommend it.
NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG
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93% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG are key players in the network monitoring and management domain. InfiniStreamNG holds a competitive edge due to its advanced analytics and traffic analysis capabilities.

Features: nGeniusONE offers end-to-end network monitoring, providing real-time insights and detailed reporting tools, crucial for proactive management. It ensures operational efficiency across diverse network environments. InfiniStreamNG provides powerful traffic analysis, forensic capabilities, and superior analytics essential for deep network exploration and in-depth traffic insights.

Room for Improvement: nGeniusONE could benefit from enhanced analytics to match its comprehensive monitoring abilities, more robust data storage solutions, and refined predictive analysis features. InfiniStreamNG may need improvements in deployment simplicity, user interface customization, and reduced setup time to enhance accessibility for users with varied expertise levels.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: nGeniusONE is recognized for its straightforward deployment process, supported by extensive customer service options. InfiniStreamNG, while needing detailed setup and training, offers high-quality customer support, assisting in overcoming integration challenges and maximizing feature utilization.

Pricing and ROI: nGeniusONE is priced as a cost-effective solution focused on efficient monitoring tools. It demonstrates a solid return on investment. InfiniStreamNG entails a higher initial cost but offers substantial long-term value through its potent analytics and analysis features, appealing to users requiring deeper insights despite the premium pricing.

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Categories and Ranking

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
77th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
19th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Michael Gideon Genita - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with good documentation and helpful support
I'm using it for a customer The packet flow switch is the most valuable aspect of the solution.  It's an easy product to set up. We can scale the solution if we need to. It's stable.  The documentation is well-written and quite useful. It's compatible with other products.  Under the pocket flow…
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Ruslan Melnyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful for network performance monitoring
My manager can explain the use cases attached to the product. I am a unit leader in my company, and I don't sell the product directly to our partners or customers. In my company, I manage certain processes and a team while building, developing, and providing them with a direction for the market. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a good solution for network performance monitoring since it is not cloud-based. My company sells NETSCOUT nGeniusONE in eight to ten countries. I think the solution is not good for capacity planning, but it is better to help find problems in applications because not every infrastructure is good at managing working applications. I think it is a solution meant for applications. The tool is useful for solving problems attached to applications. The tool's real-time network monitoring capability was used when the product was more reactive. In our company, if we use real-time monitoring, then we need to deal with raw traffic. In our company, if we don't see any problem in the real-time systems, we have the possibility to rely on the tool since it acts like a time machine for us, which can allow us to get back to the areas of problem and solve them. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. For many users, it can be a good monitoring system that can be scaled up in the future. I think it is a good product to start with when working systems in an environment. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is another tool used to manage raw traffic, and I find it to integrate well into our customers' network. I am not using it actively on the system. I use the tool for network packet brokers. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
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Pros

"The most valuable features are speed and cost."
"It allows us to get quicker resolutions. We can see exactly what is using up the bandwidth, so we can assist end users."
"It's an easy product to set up."
"The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."
"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."
"When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."
"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."
"The tool has the ability to look back within a month's data. It is very easy to navigate within the tool and troubleshoot the problem, compared to other solutions that we've used in the past."
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"The biggest benefit is the ability to do low-level packet inspection. When I say packet inspection, I don't mean looking at payload, but just looking at your communication handshakes and the like. It reduces troubleshooting time because you can get a much better view into the communications path between servers, database servers, web servers, and understand what's going on."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The speed that you can get from the top of a problem all the way down to the packet layer of troubleshooting analysis."
"The packet-based searching capability of NETSCOUT is highly valued as it allows us to better analyze the network."
"Aside from having the logs that are just on the firewall, we're able to get the traffic as it's going in between, throughout our network. It isolates end sources that are having issues, where we don't have any other tools that would be able to go down to an end-user's computer to find out what's going on."
"The quick drill-down views are similar to Wireshark views. Those are quite nice, with the views on how you interpret some of the data. The granularity of how far you can drill down into milliseconds or microseconds is a very nice feature. It actually stores quite a lot of data in its database."
"From the standpoint of VoLTE and related things, it's providing visibility into the network and how it operates."
"If one of our network pipes is getting plugged up by somebody using too much bandwidth, we can use the NETSCOUT tool to examine and find out what is going on."
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Cons

"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."
"The NetFlow Collectors could handle more flows per minute."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"There is a timeout feature that we have been asking for awhile."
"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."
"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."
"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."
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"This is a typical thing, but every time they do a major code upgrade, we get hit with some nasty bugs. Some of them literally stop the whole platform from collecting traffic data. They should really do more Q&A on the software stability before release."
"The single pane of glass view is a challenge. I like the graphics, they're easy to understand, but when more digging is required, it's more complicated to get what I'm expecting."
"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE's pricing is higher compared to the competitors. It is more than 15-18 percent of competitor costs. It also needs to add AI features."
"For individual subscriber tracings, sometimes it does not capture all the messages. There is a little bit of room for improvement there."
"One of the products we use is SolarWinds, and it provides a very cool mapping of an agent from end-to-end. If NETSCOUT could somehow implement that into their design... make it quicker and easier to get those net paths, it would be huge."
"Its initial setup process is complicated."
"The current solution is not easy to scale, because it is an appliance-based solution. So, you have to swap everything out."
"We see it overload once in a while. It doesn't have built-in protection. Therefore, once it gets too much data, it tends to crash. Then, we have to recover it."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can be scalable. It just costs too much. With a company as big as ours, it gets too expensive to accommodate every single site."
"I would like it to be more scalable with less spend."
"The scalability is good, but it comes at a cost. E.g., if you need 100 InfiniStream because you are sending gigs or terabytes of data to one InfiniStream, then you will have to purchase another InfiniStream, which are not cheap."
"This product could be cheaper."
"The price is a little high."
"To capture more with the solution that we bought, you have to buy another InfiniStreamNG, and there are only four ports in the back."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The product may come across as a cheap tool for some, while it may seem costly for others."
"If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used."
"The product is too expensive compared to other products."
"It is very expensive, but it's well worth the money."
"Licensing is flexible, it's not tied to anything else. We can easily switch up the licensing piece... Obviously, NETSCOUT is a little bit in the higher range, but it gives you value for money. You get what you pay for."
"The platform is expensive."
"We have a premium customized contract for the solution."
"It is a little overall pricey and expensive, but you get what you pay for."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Energy/Utilities Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.
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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?
The pricing is a bit high yet not overly expensive. The cost depends on the size of the customer, as sizing controls the pricing.
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Also Known As

InfiniStreamNG, NETSCOUT ISNG, Infinistream
NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE
 

Overview

NETSCOUT’s new ISNG platform harnesses the power of IP intelligence by mining traffic in real-time to deliver accurate and actionable data for service assurance, cybersecurity and business intelligence applications. The InfiniStreamNG platform fully supports the nGeniusONE and Iris application suites.

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The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.
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Sample Customers

U.S. Department of Defense
Cerner Corporation
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