We performed a comparison between Cisco ACI and Nuage Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Big Switch Networks, Aviatrix and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."It has reduced our day-to-day operations by at least half."
"The most valuable features of Cisco ACI are micro-segmentation, the VXLAN, and the ACI flattening services."
"All the features provided by Cisco ACI including orchestration to layer seven, service training, load enhancements and firewalls."
"It is easy to use because you have all the information coming from the same technology."
"Virtualization and integration with VMware is the most valuable feature."
"It has made it much easier to deploy and make changes in the data center versus the previous infrastructure, which was NX-OS based."
"With its programmability, you can do stuff to policies to make them more flexible, allowing you to connect devices in new ways."
"Cisco technical support is great."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is network management. The customer is able to manage their network from home or we can also manage the whole customer network."
"It is stable and reliable."
"It has good reporting and analytics, that most people can understand without too much difficulty."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next releases are support for our policy-based routing. There are endpoint issues that are there now in the code. Hopefully, these will get fixed in the future code."
"They should make it easier for the network people to do automated solutions."
"The learning curve is long. It's very difficult to learn Cisco ACI. As a result, our customers usually have difficulty working with this solution."
"They should improve the GUI, make it simpler. They also need to improve its integration with other automation tools."
"The way the objects are oriented on it are not as straightforward as they should be."
"I would like for them to develop integration with AWS."
"Its graphical user interface (GUI) is not as user-friendly as it could be."
"We have had two calls with technical support. They are not the best. We opened a case to diagnose issues and it's taken weeks to get someone on the case and to move forward."
"Security is an area that could use some work."
"The setup can be complex."
Cisco ACI is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 96 reviews while Nuage Networks is ranked 9th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 4 reviews. Cisco ACI is rated 8.0, while Nuage Networks is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco ACI writes "Stable, easy to extend, scalable, and has a host-based routing feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nuage Networks writes "Easy to use features, good support, and has the ability to maintain a session when you lose an uplink". Cisco ACI is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Juniper Contrail Networking and HPE SDN, whereas Nuage Networks is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate and VMware SD-WAN.
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