We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and ExtremeSwitching 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 implementation was straightforward and the product is stable."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"I like the fact that they are a well-supported product."
"The solution is very expensive. Currently, we pay an yearly licensing cost. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."
"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."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"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."
"This solution has saved us both time and money because we now have the ability to control all of these telephony devices that are deployed nationwide."
"The most valuable features of ExtremeSwitching are that they are robust and have plenty of features. There is a lot of functionality. They have a lot of other features ExtremeSwitching that you can get involved with but I haven't been using many of them."
"The product offers a single management platform for multiple models of switches. The tool also allows users to manage multiple sites from a single dashboard."
"Setup was easy. It only took a couple of hours to set up."
"It is meeting our expectations in terms of performance as well as cost-effectiveness."
"ExtremeSwitching fabric technology is a unique technology used to protect against viruses. ExtremeCloud IQ is a very good and feature-rich solution compared to Cisco, Ruxi Networks, or Huawei."
"In the case of small businesses, the solution is budget-friendly and easy to configure."
"The solution can scale."
"The unique ring topology is actually a handy innovation."
"One improvement needed is support for Multi-CAD scale that we were concerned about. We're not hitting any limits at this point."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"One of our switches died last week and we were able to RMA it. Within four hours it arrived on time and worked."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
"One of the problems we have is that there is no confirmation for when you try to test a system command."
"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."
"We noticed over the years that the price of the Extreme Switches has been rising and this will become a concern in the future."
"Their support could definitely be better."
"The solution as a whole has hardware quality issues."
"It could be cheaper in general."
"The training and resources for learning are lacking."
"ExtremeSwitching hardware lacks flexibility compared to some other options."
"Their pricing could be a bit cheaper, as Huawei switches offer better pricing."
"ExtremeSwitching is scalable to a certain extent for SME-segmented IP."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while ExtremeSwitching is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 18 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while ExtremeSwitching 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 ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX, whereas ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and NETGEAR Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. ExtremeSwitching report.
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