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."Tech support is good."
"This solution has allowed us to better prepare our network for 10-gigabit."
"Nexus provides inner redundancy. It allows us to perform updates on individual switches, while still maintaining reliability and uptime on the server."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need."
"The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth."
"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."
"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."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a focus on backplane deployment, so you can stack more."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"The product could be updated more frequently for other phone model support."
"In the next release of the solution, I would like to see varying integration between VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) instances so we can integrate BGB into different VRFs in a more organized way. We have some issues with tunnels and VRFs."
"There is limited guidance in terms of the use and configuration of Cisco Nexus for specific use cases. The documentation is not comprehensive, and you have to do a lot of online research."
"This solution costs a lot."
"One of the biggest challenges, which I see is that there's a constant evolution in the product. For example, our configuration is based on what is known as traditional data center implementation. Today there is the ACI deployment and to implement, to migrate from one technology to another, that's challenging both from a configuration perspective and also from a cost perspective."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"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."
"Customers do not prefer this to connect to multiple cities."
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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