We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches."
"It has improved our organization because we have aggregated ports, we're able to put multiple agencies on the multiple different interfaces that we have going there. We're able to separate them out with the use of VLANs and whatnot."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"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."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"The product has a stable and strong server panel switch."
"Nexus provides inner redundancy. It allows us to perform updates on individual switches, while still maintaining reliability and uptime on the server."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"Cisco Nexus still needs more stability."
"Some of the DHCP features need improvement."
"The software is not as mature as it could be and needs some integration improvements with other orchestrators."
"The solution is more expensive than other options on the market."
"The initial setup was somewhat complex."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"Technical support could be better."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX. See our Arista Campus LAN Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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