We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"The setup is straightforward. I'd like to see the firmware and code upgradability to be slightly more intuitive."
"It speeds up the network data transfer time."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"You can scale the product."
"It has improved our organization because we have aggregated ports, we're able to put multiple agencies on the multiple different interfaces that we have going there. We're able to separate them out with the use of VLANs and whatnot."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"Cisco Nexus has been very stable. No issues. It's been rock solid. We haven't had any issues with it in the last twelve months."
"The most valuable features are the solution is robust, you are able to use it for fabric architecture as well as SPAN on exit with the controller."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"I would like to see more on-device programmability, as it seems to be lacking in this platform."
"The software is not as mature as it could be and needs some integration improvements with other orchestrators."
"The operating system needs to be improved. There should be stability in the operating system, and it should not have as many vulnerabilities."
"The pricing must be improved."
"There's a couple of really bad incidents lately. Probably luck of the draw."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
"There are limitations on some of the lower level 9K solutions where you can't do the same things that you would normally be able to do, like for instance the number of static maps that you can configure on it."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX. See our Arista Campus LAN Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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