Cisco Crosswork Network Automation vs. Intermapper

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

Intermapper

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	The vendor states that users can plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize a service provider network with Cisco Crosswork Network Automation. Cisco Crosswork is designed to help service providers gain the mass awareness, augmented intelligence, and proactive control for a comprehensive data-driven, intent-based automated network.	N/A
Intermapper	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Intermapper is a network monitoring and mapping software for hybrid environments. Intermapper provides real-time performance alerts and bandwidth monitoring with cross-platform functionality.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

Intermapper

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Intermapper
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

Additional Details

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Intermapper pricing is based on number of devices monitored. Intermapper is free for 5 devices or less. Subscription pricing starts at $303 for 25 devices. Device-based pricing starts at $765 for 25 devices.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Intermapper
Considered Both Products	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation No answer on this topic	Intermapper Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper Intermapper is a cross between WhatsUp Gold and Nagios. Whatsup gold being for a less technical end-user and Nagios doing more than just SNMP scans and up down monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We felt, with both pricing and level of complexity, that Intermapper was the right solution. We looked at WhatsUpGold, but the price was too high for us at the time. We looked at Nagios, which is free, but we didn't find it intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Pelton Network Engineer Chose Intermapper I selected Intermapper because it was so easy to customize the display to exactly what we wanted. I wanted something that changed colors based on availability and something that we could display on TV's for our NOC. This fit all the criteria perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Stasel IT Operations Manager Chose Intermapper I have 15 years invested in Intermapper, so my inertia to keep from changing is relatively high, and the cost to do so would be higher than just renewing the license each year. Traditionally though, Intermapper requires less work to get going, and less work to implement a given … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Cobb Director of IT Chose Intermapper Some of these other packages have some very sophisticated capabilities that Intermapper lacks. The problem is, not too many IT departments have the bandwidth to set them up properly and us the sophisticated features and maintain them. So why not get something that does what you … Incentivized Helpful? Geoff Benedetti Network Analyst Chose Intermapper We used to use What's up Gold for our network monitoring but Intermapper seems to have better mapping capabilities. We used to use Ciscoworks for monitoring our routers and switches but it was limited to just those network devices and was a pain to set up and manage. We … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Erwin Network Administrator Chose Intermapper InterMapper offers a cheaper and easier network map over SolarWinds Orion Network Atlas. It lacks SolarWinds graphs, reports and statistics. For monitoring, alerting and at a glance information, InterMapper is hard to beat for the price. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

Intermapper

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation - Ratings	Intermapper 7.2 Ratings 13% below category average
Automated network device discovery	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network monitoring	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Alerts	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network mapping	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

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	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Intermapper
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User Ratings
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Intermapper
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Intermapper
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation has been great at reducing the workload our engineers face on the day to day aspects of their jobs. CNC has been able to reduce the time it takes to provision a device while using NSO and has provided valuable data to assist in troubleshooting network wide issues. CNC has been a pivotal aspect to our multi-million dollar network refresh Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	If you've never mapped your network out before, download a demo of Intermapper and let it run. Your jaw will drop as your network grows before your eyes. If you have your network already mapped, you still would like InterMapper because it will find stuff you did not even know you have. If I were a network consultant, the first thing I would do when I hit a client's site is to start a scan with Intermapper. You will very quickly learn what the topography is. Incentivized Jim Cobb Director of IT Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Provides SNMP and WMI probe data. Alerts us in advance of issues. Allows us to customize notifications for different groups of individuals in the district. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	I don't have many complaints with Intermapper. It's a pretty simple tool for what we use it for, and it has worked well for us. Incentivized Dan Pelton Network Engineer Read full review
Usability	Giving this a 5 as CNC classifies to a specific set of users. CNC is not an 'easy to use' product and thus requires some training to ensure that it can be used to the best of its capabilities. CNC can when used fully provide valuable data that Network Engineers would otherwise have to hunt for on their own. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The product works well and is very easy to maintain. As such, we haven't had many occasions to use support. When we have called them they were easy to contact and responsive to our questions. We have had the product for years and it may have been a year or better since the last time we contacted them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions and still is a effective and when we first procured it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Allowed us to find issues we had no idea were happening with our network hardware in closets. Able to pull network hardware inventory easily. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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