We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helps secure IoT endpoints for specific networks."
"Good user profiling and BYOD facilities."
"Application Assurance works very well."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"The automation features are significant, reducing configuration time. This means outstanding functionality. By deploying the controller automatically, the rest becomes automated"
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"The product offers an intuitive and automated way to manage user networks. It gives me an insight into the network health."
"There could be in-built end-to-end map integration features for IoT devices instead of using third-party tools."
"Lacks application level visibility on the dashboard."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"There should be an option for automation of template deployment by using the stored data. It is not easy to save configuration information for lots of devices without using other tools. There should be a tighter, better repository of information that can be merged with the templates."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"The tool's deployment is complex. It also needs to improve its GUI."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"The solution's technical support is an area with which my company's clients have a problem. Cisco doesn't provide good technical support unless a user has a big account that Cisco wants to retain."
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is ranked 20th in Network Management Applications with 2 reviews while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is rated 9.0, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass writes "Has an automated feature for user onboarding and supports heterogeneous devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is most compared with Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance. See our Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass vs. Cisco DNA Center report.
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