Exinda pros and cons

Vendor: GFI

4.4 out of 5

9 reviews
87% willing to recommend

220 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Exinda allows granular control over classes of service, helping prioritize traffic types and offering visibility into bandwidth usage per application. Its traffic shaping makes a 20-meg link feel like 30 to 40-meg, enhancing responsiveness. Exinda enables tailored policies for bandwidth allocation but could improve device speed, application updates, and offer more educational resources. Real-time monitoring is limited to filtering by IP address only.

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PROS

Exinda provides granular classes of service that enable prioritization of traffic types at a detailed level.

Exinda displays throughput usage by various products, assisting in effective bandwidth management.

Exinda's traffic shaping capabilities are precise, allowing a lower-capacity link to perform like a higher-capacity one, enhancing network utilization.

Exinda manages traffic at the application layer, improving responsiveness and simplifying network management.

Exinda creates customizable policies that prioritize apps and users for bandwidth, tailoring network performance to customer needs.

CONS

Exinda should provide the overall management interface for free instead of charging for it.

There is room for improvement in the speed and throughput of some devices, especially the larger ones.

The updating of applications that the system recognizes could be quicker.

Exinda could offer more training or informational sessions through resellers.

Real-time monitoring can only be filtered by IP address, not by VLAN.

Exinda Pros review quotes

Eugene Hacker

Director of Network Services at a university with 201-500 employees

Nov 1, 2020

It has the ability to prioritize, providing an automatic optimization. I can put it in a hierarchy and know that certain devices will be prioritized over others. It is able to identify the traffic. It can pick out whether if its a Zoom meeting (or something like that), then it's able to put that somewhere in the hierarchy based on the traffic type.

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Marek Jaworski

Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

The most valuable features are the shaper, accelerator, and the reporting... it will shape the traffic better than, for example, a Cisco, because it's more gentle on the shaping side of things. Suppose you were selling a 20-meg link. Because you can shape to the nth degree of traffic, the 20-meg link feels like about a 30 to 40-meg link.

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Daniel Mahar

Associate Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the traffic at the application layer. It makes things a lot easier. We're not digging for port numbers and IP addresses and different services... It makes us far more responsive in our ability to do things and speed up the process. We're a very small shop, so having something that's straightforward and easy to use is a big help.

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reviewer1255722

Head of Networks at a recruiting/HR firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 25, 2019

The most valuable feature is the ability to provide very granular classes of service. That's important because it allows us to prioritize certain traffic types over others, to a very granular level.

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reviewer1540452

Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Mar 25, 2021

The most valuable feature is the ability to create policies where we can tailor them to the customer. It enables us to prioritize apps and users for bandwidth.

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Denis L

Sales Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

May 20, 2020

Exinda can show you which product uses how much throughput and can help you manage it.

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Exinda Cons review quotes

Eugene Hacker

Director of Network Services at a university with 201-500 employees

Nov 1, 2020

A lot of working with this solution is really intuitive. I have picked it up mostly on my own. I'm sure that there are some things that maybe I hadn't thought of or really hadn't considered, and I think it would be good just to promote some day courses. I don't really see a whole lot that comes out for Exinda as far as training or informational sessions through our normal resellers. It would be cool to know more about the solution by utilizing educational resources or even have Exinda promoted a bit better.

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Marek Jaworski

Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

There might be room for improvement in the speed and throughput of some of their devices. They're getting a bit slow on some of the bigger devices. It would be helpful if there were some sort of an ISP model.

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Daniel Mahar

Associate Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2020

The updating of applications that the system knows about could be a little quicker. For example, Zoom had been out for a while, but it took a while for it to show up as an application that Exinda could natively handle. We had to write some things in order to handle Zoom, initially.

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reviewer1255722

Head of Networks at a recruiting/HR firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 25, 2019

What I don't like is the fact that I haven't purchased the overall management interface. That is the interface that allows you to manage multiple Exindas. Personally, I think Exinda should provide that for free. I think that if you buy more and more Exinda boxes, you shouldn't then have to incur a charge for the overall management software. While I can manage each Exinda separately, if they provided me with the overall management platform for free that would probably encourage me to buy more appliances.

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reviewer1540452

Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Mar 25, 2021

In terms of improvement, one thing that has always frustrated me about it is that when you look at real-time monitoring, you can only filter it by IP address. You can't filter it by anything else. It would be good if we could filter by VLAN.

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Denis L

Sales Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

May 20, 2020

It should improve the quality of service. It can improve their connection to the internet and your IP.

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