NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs Pico Corvil Analytics comparison

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NETSCOUT and PICO are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. NETSCOUT is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.0, while PICO is ranked #69. NETSCOUT holds a 1.1% mindshare in NMS, compared to PICO’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of NETSCOUT users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PICO users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Pico Corvil Analytics are competing in the network performance monitoring and analytics sector. Pico Corvil Analytics offers an edge in feature richness and perceived value, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is more advantageous in pricing and support.

Features: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides comprehensive network traffic analysis, extensive visibility across diverse network environments, and wide-ranging functionality. Pico Corvil Analytics focuses on detailed transaction-level analytics, adaptive baselining, and in-depth insight capabilities.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE could improve in transaction-level detail, customization options, and adaptive analytics capabilities. Pico Corvil Analytics might enhance its pricing strategy, increase scalability for large infrastructures, and simplify integration with third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE features an efficient deployment process and strong support, ensuring quick operational capability. Pico Corvil Analytics streamlines deployment with comprehensive support, emphasizing customization and integration with existing systems for tailored solutions.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is competitively priced, offering broad functionality at a reasonable cost and supporting favorable ROI. Pico Corvil Analytics has potentially higher initial setup costs but offers enhanced features for significant returns, focusing on delivering high value through advanced analytics capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

27th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Pico Corvil Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

69th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.1%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pico Corvil Analytics is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.1%
Pico Corvil Analytics	0.6%
Other	98.3%

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Hasan Toffaha

Newwork And Collaboration Supervisor at Nafeza

Monitoring has improved bandwidth insights and application diagnosis but setup and costs still need work

They need room for improvement about the spare parts. There are shortages in Egypt in their stock. We tried to make RMA for specific parts, and it took a long time. Comparing this to a vendor like Cisco, who provides any component next business day, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE took a long time. This needs more improvement. I believe it is expensive. They need to reduce its budget a little bit. Comparing to other solutions, it is very expensive.

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Ted Hruzd

Founder at AI Fit LLC

Helpful support agents, beneficial issue detection, and high availability

The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite. The product suite could benefit from more out-of-the-box predictive analytics capabilities, such as projecting market or symbol movements. However, it is unclear whether the vendor currently provides this functionality. Users may need to adjust their software to perform such analysis independently.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It has versatility to correlate different traffic types and performance management statistics."

"The system's ability to prevent downtime represents a significant return on investment, but I do not have specific numerical data."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."

"It catches bigger issues on a weekly basis. That's how often we find something big enough that the only reason we know about it is because of the nGeniusONE. The bigger issues are mostly security-type issues: Odd traffic leaving our network or coming into it, that has found its way past a firewall."

"We build application dashboards and performance indexes for locations."

"Among the valuable features, if it's TAP'ed well, are the density of the data that you can get and the relatively high veracity or accuracy rate that we see from it."

"It gives me the MOS, latency, and jitter."

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"It allows us to trace the flow. The logic is built sufficiently for us to be able to break down clients' orders, underlying child orders, and execution. Thus, it's a good way for us to trace client flow through a myriad of different internal systems."

"Corvil is really useful, if you want to produce statistics for your application across different platforms then I would definitely recommend it."

"We can use CLI with the UI for configuring the new monitoring system, which is good."

"We like the dashboards because they essentially organize all the sessions into one viewpoint."

"Broadly speaking, this solution has reduced incident diagnosis times because it is a tool that we don't have elsewhere."

"What is most valuable is the ability to troubleshoot when a client complains of spikes in latencies. It gives us the ability to go granular, all the way down to looking at the network packets and analyze them."

"As part of my role in monitoring multiple client connections, I would use Pico Corvil Analytics to set up alerts for performance issues, such as TCP resends and dropped packets. These alerts would trigger when the volume was low and performance was poor, allowing me to work with our trading partners to find a resolution. I would present them with the statistics I had and together, we would identify the source of the issue. This collaboration resulted in the client often reconfiguring their systems. For example, we may find that a network connection needed to be made. Overall, this proactive approach helped to maintain strong connections with our clients and minimize disruptions to trading revenue."

"In the sense that it helps us identify performance issues, it does give us a performance advantage over competitors."

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Cons

"nGeniusONE could be improved by reducing the number of bare metal servers required to run it. Currently, you need a separate bare metal server for each of the following: Xfinity, ISNG, nGeniusONE, and CFS. It would be more cost-effective and less complex if all of these functionalities could be combined into a single bare metal server."

"NG1 has been stable for a while in our environment - at least we have what we needed. But with nBA, there's a lot of room for improvement."

"Most of the functionality I mentioned above could be improved, to be honest. Also, it's not intuitive, it's not simple to use."

"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."

"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."

"The scalability needs some work. From a probe perspective, we are limited to a certain amount of throughput on the devices themselves. Without having actual hooks into the bare metal hardware for the solutions, it's a bit of a "thumb in the air" as to when we hit our capacity or when our high watermark is."

"Maybe the optics cost could be improved. It's not about the product itself, but the optics cost from other companies is very high, which affects the business. When you buy a $1 million product, you shouldn't be expected to pay $500,000 for support. So, support, operation, and professional services are very expensive. It's the main weakness."

"There are so many features that it makes it hard to know it all. You end up paying for things that you don't use and probably don't even need. It might be better if Netscout came up with a modular way to pay for what you're going to use and not pay for all of this "white elephant" without being able to take advantage of all of it."

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"The analytics feature is very nice, but it's mostly software. We are hoping that it could be embedded in ASICs, so it could be faster."

"Overall, the Corvil device needs a little bit of training for people to handle it. If that could be reduced and made more user-friendly, more intuitive, it would be better."

"Sometimes, when you are saving any configuration and making changes, there are times something is missing. An error comes up, or sometimes there is no error, and the errors are not very straightforward as to the issue."

"Before I got the Corvil training... one thing that was not very efficient was that every time you had to create a new stream or a new session from within Corvil... you had to tell it what protocol the message is going to come through and how to correlate messages, etc... After I went for the training, they had already added these nice features in the 9.4 version where it could do auto-discovery... Based on the traffic that it has already seen, it could create sessions on the fly."

"For FIX protocol, maybe we could have built-in configurations for signatures and decoders. Also, for certain protocols, which are newer, we would like to just add the signatures within the decoders itself."

"It's quite difficult to see, sometimes, how hard your Corvil is working. When we had a very busy feed that chucked out a lot of data it wasn't working very well on Corvil. We had to raise a case for it. It turned out to be that, in fact, we were overloading Corvil."

"Alerting isn't great... you can only put in one email address in. And that's for all kinds of alerting on the box."

"I have seen errors where the CNE and the CMC haven't synced because of something missing in the CMC, which was there in the CNE. We would get some type of error, but it doesn't actually say what exactly was missing in the CNE."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The biggest problem we have with this product is the expense."

"Like any company, we always want better pricing. The pricing is okay, but it's not a cheap solution. When you want to deploy it across an enterprise as large as ours, you go into seven figures. It's not a cheap solution to get out there."

"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."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"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."

"The product is too expensive compared to other products."

"Cost is probably the biggest drawback. Compared to some of the newer vendors that have popped up in the space, it's definitely more on the expensive side... [But] it's been able to keep its value, even in the face of the cheaper competition."

"This solution has saved us more than $50,000 a month and freed up 30 percent of our bandwidth."

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"Pico Corvil Analytics is expensive. There are several competitors in the market. Selling this solution to a trading firm might be challenging as there are several other solutions available that can perform basic similar operations, such as using Wireshark and Python scripts to obtain the required values. However, that does not nearly approach the comprehensive end-2-end automated depth of metrics and their correlations that Pico Corvil Analytics provides."

"As I am working more with Corvil, it looks like it is improving diagnostic times."

"I like the way they've decoupled the hardware now... Everything's based on the licensing side now. The way they do the packs is fair. It's very flexible in that we're not charged per decoder, we're charged for a certain pack. Whether we use one decoder or 20 decoders, as long as they're in the same pack, there's no extra charge. Expensive but fair is how I'd summarize it."

"We bought a box from Corvil and it was $200,000 for one big CNE. Then there are obviously the recurring maintenance fees. The licensing is perpetual but the maintenance fees are not."

"The pricing is very expensive. Corvil could work on the pricing."

"Corvil has reduced the time it takes us to isolate root causes."

"It is pricey versus its competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Outsourcing Company

11%

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Small Business

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Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	37

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Regarding its high price, I give NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a seven.

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Also Known As

NETSCOUT nGenius, nGeniusONE

Corvil

Overview

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides comprehensive network performance insights through features like deep packet inspection and real-time traffic analysis. It helps organizations monitor network infrastructures effectively with tools for packet capture and analysis.

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is designed for in-depth network monitoring and troubleshooting. Offering application-layer visibility and dependency mapping, it delivers insights into network traffic and application performance. With its packet capture and analysis capabilities, organizations can make informed decisions by identifying and solving network issues efficiently. Although powerful, users note its complexity and reliance on physical servers as potential drawbacks and see opportunities for enhancement in user experience, data analysis, and integration capabilities.

What are the key features of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Deep Packet Inspection: Analyzes packet-level data in detail.
Application-Layer Visibility: Provides insights into application performance.
Dependency Mapping: Tracks interactions between network components.
Real-Time Traffic Analysis: Monitors network traffic continuously.
Intuitive Dashboards: Enhances user experience with easy data access.
Packet Decoding: Supports detailed troubleshooting processes.

What benefits should users expect from NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Network Anomaly Detection: Quickly identifies issues before they escalate.
Improved Troubleshooting: Enables accurate problem resolution.
Proactive Monitoring: Continuously assesses network health.
Application Performance Management: Ensures optimal application operation.
Enhanced Communication Diagnostics: Facilitates the pinpointing of VoIP and unified communications issues.

Implementation of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE spans across industries such as telecommunications and IT services where it is used for monitoring network performance and managing bandwidth utilization. It supports real-time diagnostics in Voice over IP and unified communications, enabling organizations to maintain high levels of service quality while identifying the sources of network performance issues efficiently.

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Pico Corvil Analytics offers advanced capabilities in latency measurement, data analysis, and real-time packet decoding. Its intuitive dashboards and comprehensive analytics support latency management and customizable metrics, enhancing performance monitoring and infrastructure optimization.

Designed to assist in latency monitoring and benchmarking, Pico Corvil Analytics is essential for tracking server and exchange latency, client connectivity, electronic trading environments, and order flows. It provides features like real-time analytics, custom dashboards, and anomaly detection, aiding in transaction scrutiny and market activity predictions. Users note the depth of analytics features, although there is a desire for iHub functionality within the app, simpler configurations, and more intuitive performance analytics and reporting.

What are the core features of Pico Corvil Analytics?

Latency Measurement: Precision tracking for server and exchange latency.
Data Analysis: Granular insights for enhanced trading efficiency.
Real-Time Packet Decoding: Immediate packet analysis for troubleshooting.
Visualization: Advanced dashboards enhancing data communication.
Intelligent Alerts: Proactive performance monitoring and collaborations.

What benefits can users expect from Pico Corvil Analytics?

Enhanced Trading Efficiency: Drives strategic upgrades and operational improvements.
Nuanced Network Analysis: Empowers detailed troubleshooting and network management.
Performance Monitoring: Aids infrastructure optimization through informed decisions.

Pico Corvil Analytics is widely implemented in industries requiring high-performance trading infrastructures, such as financial services and electronic trading environments. It supports users in predicting market activities and ensuring reliable, efficient trade execution. Custom dashboards and real-time analysis provide a competitive edge in these high-stakes arenas.

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Sample Customers

Cerner Corporation

NASDAQ, Commerzbank, Pico Quantitative Trading, CME Group, Interactive Data, Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.

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