We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and NETGEAR Switches 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."This is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and reliability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"This solution improves network speed and provides high availability for our users."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Netgear switches are highly reliable. We haven't done anything particularly sophisticated with them."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"The remote management tools are fantastic. The combination of the webpage as well as the app makes life so much easier. I don't need to go and visit sites to do upgrades or any sorts of changes. The firmware can all be deployed remotely. I can see the traffic on each of the switch ports remotely as well, so I can see if we've got problems, down to an individual port. It's very granular."
"The most valuable feature to me is the modular side of things, being able to replace a module and a transceiver at our beck and call. If something goes down, or a piece of equipment is broken, I don't have to replace the whole switch. I can just replace the part that's broken or the part that is no longer working. I can get them back up and working within a matter of minutes, versus having to replace everything and reprogram everything. It's a huge time-saver."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"I'm satisfied with the stability of NETGEAR Switches."
"The remote troubleshooting is pretty easy. You can turn off a port that might have a network loop created, or where there might be a bad NIC card that is creating issues. Being able to turn off that port remotely is fantastic, instead of having to replace the whole switch. Remote management is really easy."
"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."
"They need to understand that when we call them and have an issue, it's our production and sometimes they want us to do repairs that would cause other issues. That's the biggest problem."
"It would be nice if the solution offered multiple types of port support."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
"Cisco Nexus still needs more stability."
"If I call during a high volume, I might get someone that just doesn't know as much or it takes a little bit of time and they put us on hold more. Otherwise, it's good."
"I don't really deal with the pricing but I know that it's not cheap."
"Cisco Nexus is just a platform. You just set it up, give it an IP, and then start configuring it. But there are a million features to configure."
"There are a lot of systems that are moving into different areas. There are a lot of cloud-based things happening. One nice feature that I've seen in other switches is artificial intelligence on the actual porting. They've got AI technology that will tell you when a port is down. They not only tell you when a port is down; they also tell you when a port is running slower. You can do a cable-fault check, or you can do other checks. It would be nice to have this information in NETGEAR. This feature might already be there in a new release of the NETGEAR's firmware, but I haven't seen it."
"What I'd like to see is more compatibility with virtual stacking, so that 4300-series switches and 3300-series switches will actually stack together and that virtual switch stacks, themselves, are not limited to just six devices, so that they can create larger loops with more bandwidth and more redundancy."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The M4250 switches needs more SFP models."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"If they could come up with ways to look at metrics on it while the video is capping through the system, that would be nice. There could be some interesting uses for that, but it's a long way off."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform and Dell PowerConnect Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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