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."Tech support is good."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"Cisco technical support is a good backup team when you have issues with anything. If you open a case they are very good at following up and making sure that the issue's resolved according to the needs of our network."
"The most valuable features are the great performance, high availability and easy administration."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"We now have one box that does multiple services."
"Nexus has improved my organization in the way that it provided enhanced security in a point in the network that was critical."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."
"Valuable features include network monitoring and ease of programming for VLANs, etc. I especially like NETGEAR because it's easy to teach system administrators how to use them, how to look at them, how to make changes to them without having the complexity of CLIs, but still having a CLI should we need it."
"Their online portal is one of the most useful features. The portal is very user-friendly, so even someone with not a lot of tech experience can go in and see what's going on with the switch."
"The solution is reliable and it is easy to setup."
"You are not limited in terms of stacking ports, and especially, if you're using the 96X as a core switch, the scalability, I could see this being very large. If you're using a type of a hybrid topology with a core switch going out to multiple switch stacks, or something like that, I could see the scalability of this being very good, especially considering the kind of backplane switching capacity on the 96X."
"The tool is stable."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"I am looking for a GUI that goes alongside them and more SD-WAN built to their core switches."
"The initial setup was pretty complex, mostly because of our environment, having to do multi-context. That's where you have a lot of different logical routes that are in one physical device, and it can get kind of complex trying to think about how to set all that up. You really have to whiteboard it out a lot."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"The only issue that I have with this product is finding help on different commands when I'm trying to make a change."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
"One area that has room for improvement, and I know NETGEAR is working on it, is adding more features to the products lines in terms of what we can manage through the Insight portal... not all Layer 2 or Layer 3 settings are there yet."
"The scalability and warranty should also be improved."
"Centralized monitoring is there, but competitors like Cisco Prime are at a higher level of centralized monitoring."
"The M4250 switches needs more SFP models."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th 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, Dell PowerConnect Switches and ExtremeSwitching, 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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