We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies and others in LAN Switching."This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"Nexus provides inner redundancy. It allows us to perform updates on individual switches, while still maintaining reliability and uptime on the server."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"The ability to tenant-out the traffic and segment it, without having to get into separate physical hardware or trying to figure out VDCs manually, has been really powerful and extremely useful for us."
"In terms of stability, this solution is rock solid."
"The integrations are valuable."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"Port density and port speed performance are both suitable. It has some appealing intangibles."
"For a customer, it is easy to configure and to add ports through the LAN the GUI."
"Nexus switches should be able to support network function virtualization (NFV)."
"Enhancing the software-defined level of this solution would empower it."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization."
"If we could get some more automation integrated into it, it would make it easier."
"I feel that this solution should be more flexible and scalable."
"Customers do not prefer this to connect to multiple cities."
"Instead of competing at the enterprise level with that product, they should probably scale it. With all of the ports, they should develop a good mid-level business to truly scale it and gain adoption before attempting to go after the enterprise."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 8 reviews while Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is ranked 12th in LAN Switching with 1 review. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerSwitch N-Series writes "Performs well, but the support and stability could be improved". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and NETGEAR Switches, whereas Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is most compared with Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches.
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