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.
"It's an extremely reliable platform for the network switches we use."
"Arista Networks Platform is comfortable, easy to deploy, and easy to manage, with non-blocking technology. Additionally, it has a useful CloudVision platform and automation capabilities."
"What we like most is its performance to price ratio."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is the performance, flexibility, configuration, and cost. It's not a traditional pricing model from Cisco. They've offered our company a considerable reduction in price. That makes Cisco Nexus now very competitive with other vendors."
"Nexus provides inner redundancy. It allows us to perform updates on individual switches, while still maintaining reliability and uptime on the server."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"This is a powerful device and I can get good bandwidth."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"The product has a stable and strong server panel switch."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The product fails to offer functions related to cloud orchestration, making it in areas where improvements are required."
"The CVP management platform needs to be improved."
"I want the solution to include a unified controller."
"Something that you will often hear about Arista products is that the price is a bit too high and, like with Cisco, we sometimes have problems with our customers because of its pricing."
"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 community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"A smoother transition between ISPs during failover would improve the user experience by reducing unnecessary notifications and interruptions."
"It would be ideal if there was better integration with various other platforms."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is the ability to integrate routing and switching features."
"I am looking for a GUI that goes alongside them and more SD-WAN built to their core switches."
"There are too many different model numbers and too much complexity."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"This solution costs a lot."
"My only complaint is that not all of the ports on it are enabled from the start."
"Nexus is a costly solution."
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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