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."It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."
"Cisco Nexus is very safe and stable. I've been here 8 months. We have some devices that have been out for 11 years."
"Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"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."
"I would like to see more granularity."
"The software is not as mature as it could be and needs some integration improvements with other orchestrators."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"The price could be better."
"I would like to see more on-device programmability, as it seems to be lacking in this platform."
"There may be many bugs which remain unresolved."
"The pricing must be improved."
"I would like to see a lighter platform."
"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 101 reviews while Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is ranked 12th in LAN Switching with 2 reviews. 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 Cisco FabricPath, whereas Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is most compared with Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches.
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