We performed a comparison between Cisco ACI and Nuage Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important aspect of Cisco ACI in my opinion is the ease of management. Other solutions, like traditional solutions and pricier solutions—or even fabric and PAT—you have to do many configurations on a box-to-box basis, With Cisco ACI, you go on the AP and do some "next, next finish" installer."
"It improves security and automation."
"I like using WebEx Board."
"We can implement customer requirements more quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the throughput that it offers."
"ACI's most valuable feature is sizing - you can easily find the sizing of the data, which means the data speed, CPU, and virtualization can be determined."
"The straightforward migration of all of the applications and loop balancing are the two most valuable features. Also, the measurement of their customer-wide sources is very straightforward. It's another dimension of the networks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the Call Manager."
"It has good reporting and analytics, that most people can understand without too much difficulty."
"It is stable and reliable."
"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."
"We had issues in the first deployment when we tried to finish the migration from traditional networking to Cisco ACI."
"Because this is new technology, which requires a different way of thinking, it can be hard to understand. Therefore, I would like more documentation or education."
"The way the objects are oriented on it are not as straightforward as they should be."
"It needs more features for integrating with third-party vendors."
"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."
"It is challenging for people who don't understand the programming language, making it difficult to migrate. With technology, there are two verticals. One is hardware driven and the other is software driven. Most people in our domain understand networking, but they don't understand programming. When we migrate, some programming is required."
"ACI's blade servers could be more flexible, and its storage interface is a little too complex because they use some third-party storage solution."
"Its graphical user interface (GUI) is not as user-friendly as it could be."
"The setup can be complex."
"Security is an area that could use some work."
Cisco ACI is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 97 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 and VMware SD-WAN. See our Cisco ACI vs. Nuage Networks report.
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