I have evaluated other similar solutions, such as HPE.

If a client does not have enough money to afford Cisco Nexus, I recommend that they go for Juniper Networks.

We did look at another vendor. Cisco is found around the world with good support and credibility in the industry. It was an easy choice even though the functionality from the competitor was more.

Arista and Juniper were both on the shortlist. We bought a few Juniper QFX series switches, and we did not like the product at all. We were investigating Arista, but Cisco came in with an awesome pricing plan for us, and a data center solution that met our needs. It was a lot cheaper than Arista, which is why our manager went with that selection.

Nexus, which uses NX-OS, runs on a different operating system than CatOS, which means that the latter tends to run on OS - just like a Cisco router - only with the functioning being a bit different. While NX-OS is very different, even when it comes to the command line, most things are the same.

However, NX-OS already introduced a different concept, which is more like a carrier level. They have a dedicated command management module. All other modules have comparatively many more functions or power than regular Catalyst switches.

Nexus' primary focus is on the data center and supports what are known as top-of-rack or end-of-rack features, including the cost of cabling. So too, the latest one, the Nexus 9K, also supports a software-defined cloud with Cisco ACI, which is what this is referred to when typically deployed inside the company.

The solution is relatively expensive when compared with Cisco Catalyst.

Another option was Aruba Networks.

It was Cisco or Juniper.

We are a Cisco shop, so we didn't look for an alternative platform. We knew that we were going to use Cisco.

The company is currently investing heavily in new technology from Cisco. This includes the SD-WAN, a network administration system, and NFV for the virtual firewall.

For this solution, we did not consider other vendors. However, we do use multiple vendors for our firewall and routing solutions.

I've never gone with any other type of phone systems. It pretty much has been Cisco all along.

The products on our shortlist were mostly Cisco Nexus and Meraki.

We have a management contract with Cisco. They are our managed service provider. We didn't have much of a choice.

We went straight to Cisco and actually did not consider other solutions. It was partly because of familiarity. All of their staff were trained in what we needed. We can change product lines within Cisco if we needed to upgrade without any pain points. We didn't bother to consider other vendors.

We were pretty focused on Cisco. That is where we wanted to go.

We did not evaluate other solutions for our client.  

We didn't spend time researching the best solution for the client. They had a particular method and requested Cisco Nexus specifically.

Our company is locked into one vendor for purchasing, which is a board decision. The only time we can use another vendor is if they sell it as part of a solution. Logicalis was the only vendor that had the solution we wanted, so that's who we went with.

In our enterprise organization, we're a little bit different than the government. We buy into the economy of scale. Since we have centers all across the United States, we try to centralize and enterprise manage our equipment. We tend to go with one vendor and that decision is above me.

I don't get to evaluate the days of local control within our infrastructure. We moved away from that about 10 years ago so that we can take advantage of economies of scale.

We talked with a lot of vendors, such as Juniper, FortiGate, and some of the other players. Cisco was our chosen solution, because of the level of support and familiarity we had. A lot of us trained in Cisco.

We didn't evaluate other options.

We didn't have any other vendors in mind. Cisco is the product that we've used quite heavily, so it made sense to stay with them.

We only evaluated solutions by Cisco.

We considered both Cisco and Juniper for our infrastructure. My experience with Cisco over the past twenty years has been good. Also, this specific product is both reliable and scalable, which were all things that we considered when we adopted this solution.

We consider Juniper switches to be more affordable.

AT&T is our primary vendor. Verizon was on the short list, and Cisco themselves was on the list as well.

We only use a couple of different vendors, and Cisco was our only option for this type of solution.

Cisco was on the shortlist with Extreme and Juniper. We chose Cisco because there was integration with other Cisco equipment in the data center.

I've used Ruckus, HP, Dell, and smaller products for enterprise solutions.

We were using another solution and we went with Cisco because it has more features. Also because Cisco is reliably good; nobody ever got fired for choosing Cisco.

We were looking at Arista and Juniper, but we ended up going with Cisco, mainly because of the features.

There are a lot of competitors out there. For example, the VMware NSX, which is a pure overlay, it's more network virtualization. The ACI solution is more full-featured, and you get visibility under the underlying overlay. It's very performing, and where we've deployed it for customers they are extremely happy with it. There's a learning curve in deploying it because you do things a little differently, but overall it's a solid solution.

When we lead with a software-defined data center, we lead with Cisco.

When I came to the company they had already made their evaluations and the conversion project was already underway. I know they selected this because they felt it was the most stable solution. The route of Nexus had a lot of throughputs but it is also very reliable. We were looking for reliable, scalable technology. The point of making a change was to avoid failures and that is why we chose Nexus.

We also looked at PCM. 

We didn't look at any other vendors.

We are multi-vendor, so whoever gives us the best product is the one we purchase from.

The only solutions that we considered were by Cisco. We have used other products, for example from HP, but we were not as satisfied by those as we were with Cisco.

We were already working with Cisco.

We did not evaluate vendors other than Cisco.

We did explore other products, but Cisco is something we can use permanently. Specifically, we compared with HP/HPE.

As a customer of Cisco, we always have had meetings with them on their new products. We tell them what kind of solution we are looking for and Cisco says for this solution you need this kind of thing.

We previously used Catalyst 6500. 

We did not have other vendors on our shortlist.

We used Cisco before. When we made the decision to choose a new solution, we evaluated other vendors and chose Nexus.

Cisco was our only vendor.

We did not evaluate other vendors before choosing this solution.

No other options were evaluated.

We only considered Cisco.

I like Cisco products, so we did not evaluate other options.