We performed a comparison between Arista Networks Platform and Cisco Nexus based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, the two products received similar ratings across all categories. However, users of Arista Networks Platform reported seeing an ROI while users of Cisco Nexus did not.
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution has good load latency. They're the market leader in this aspect right now."
"Arista Networks Platform has a feature that helps with monitoring and management."
"We find the CloudVision switching feature of this solution really useful."
"The most valuable aspect of Arista Networks products is their ease of configuration, especially when compared to Cisco products. When we implement advanced features for data centers such as BGP EVPN and VXLAN, Arista's configuration process is similar to that of Cisco's process, but at the same time it is simply much easier, clearer, and more understandable."
"The configuration capabilities were good."
"I like the spine as a leaf model and low latency. The hardware is robust and meets expected latency in all environments, mainly if you belong to the media or trading industry. For multicast-based solutions, Arista is number one."
"Arista Networks Platform offers straightforward deployment, and has good features. Support for the platform is also good."
"From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."
"It speeds up the network data transfer time."
"We have a much more stable network now using the Cisco Nexus."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"The redundancy and the vPC are the most valuable features. We can integrate two switches together for file transfers; that is, we can operate two switches as one. This is because the network can be shared via a vPC trunk, particularly for devices that are not critical for redundancy."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"The product has a stable and strong server panel switch."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"My company does face issues in terms of interoperability when it comes to the product, making it an area that needs to be fixed."
"The community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more."
"The intent-based networking management, together with the provider of these solutions that are already free, would be beneficial."
"Arista Networks Platform should focus on improving the compatibility or integration with Cisco solutions."
"Its price can be better."
"They should have a more stable code."
"The product fails to offer functions related to cloud orchestration, making it in areas where improvements are required."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"The product could be updated more frequently for other phone model support."
"The licensing is very complicated. They should work to simplify it."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"There's been a little bit of bugginess in the code, but that happens."
"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."
"I don't really deal with the pricing but I know that it's not cheap."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
Arista Networks Platform is ranked 2nd in Data Center Networking with 21 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews. Arista Networks Platform is rated 8.6, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Networks Platform writes "Affordable for enterprise-sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Networks Platform is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, VMware NSX and ExtremeSwitching. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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