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Exinda pros and cons

Vendor: GFI
4.4 out of 5
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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

EH
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.
MJ
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.
DM
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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GL
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.
PT
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.
DL
May 20, 2020
Exinda can show you which product uses how much throughput and can help you manage it.
 

Exinda Cons review quotes

EH
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.
MJ
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.
DM
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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GL
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.
PT
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.
DL
May 20, 2020
It should improve the quality of service. It can improve their connection to the internet and your IP.