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.
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What we like most is its performance to price ratio."
"The solution is scalable."
"It provides telemetry and visibility for many metrics that are not supported by most of the other vendors. Out of the box, no third party solutions are needed."
"The solution has good load latency. They're the market leader in this aspect right now."
"It is very stable. It has good hardware and very stable code. It provides good value for its price. They are a very lean type of organization, so they are very responsive, and they're able to focus more on their platform versus having multiple products out there."
"The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the Linux shell, which is useful for troubleshooting or capturing traffic."
"The solution has introduced VPC, Virtual Port Channel, which allows for more redundancy and flexibility."
"The initial setup is easy."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need."
"Cisco Nexus has improved the way our organization functions through the troubleshooting. We had issues where we've seen our links saturated. We were able to determine what was being processed on the link."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"You can scale the product."
"We got increased bandwidth, faster performance, and newer software which has improved our organization."
"They need to enhance their code and their EOS. They need to improve some security features, and there are quite a number of bugs in their system. So, they need to work on that piece. In the next release, we need to have a modular feature. Instead of providing an integrated solution, they should go for something modular. They need to come up with modular highly scalable models. Even at the chassis layer, I want to see some improvement."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"The stability of this solution needs to be improved as part of the next upgrade."
"The intent-based networking management, together with the provider of these solutions that are already free, would be beneficial."
"A smoother transition between ISPs during failover would improve the user experience by reducing unnecessary notifications and interruptions."
"The solution needs to improve their product range."
"An area for improvement in Arista Networks Platform is its integration, e.g. it needs to have more integration with its new products. Incorporating more security and cloud is also another area for improvement in the platform."
"The solution’s pricing could be better."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"One of our switches died last week and we were able to RMA it. Within four hours it arrived on time and worked."
"They need to offer fibre switches in the 9K series."
"It would be nice if the solution offered multiple types of port support."
"Enhancing the software-defined level of this solution would empower it."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
"This solution costs a lot."
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 Juniper QFabric. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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