Cisco Nexus Primary Use Case
We mainly use them as core network switches. They are configured as a VPC cluster, and we have distribution layer switches attached to both chassis with virtual port channels. Additionally, we have another VDC to connect all the access layer switches for user connectivity.
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Tqe Sylverne
Senior Advisor at CIGNA Corporation
We were doing a data center migration. We extended the network from the previous location to the new location. We had about 90% of the applications work seamlessly.
I work in a cyber security company. My company handles cyber security products as a part of networking. In the networking part, my company handles routers and switches, along with the configurations related to routing and switching areas, while taking care of network troubleshooting. As a network administrator, the aforementioned areas consist of my main tasks.
My company does not get to utilize the tool for our organization's data center architecture since we don't deal in the area of data centers. The tool is useful in the area of networking.
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Currently, our infrastructure relies on hyper-converged technology, in conjunction with Cisco infrastructure, which is essential for our features. Spamify utilizes Cisco infrastructure for its functionality, while Linksys manages connections with other systems. Our servers handle computation, storage, and related technologies, while Cisco takes care of network functions, including routing and switching. We also employ Cisco's firewall for security purposes, both externally and internally. Now, we're in search of structural virtualization technology with security and virtualization capabilities for version 4.16.
View full review »Basically, the Cisco Nexus is an L3 switch, and it offers the capabilities of L2 and L3 switches. The product is used for server farm switches and core switches, where there are big servers and data flow.
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Florin Jalencu
IT Specialist at E.ON
We use Cisco Nexus on our server-side. We use the product for the access switches layer. We basically take a look at the actual DNA center, however, it will be a time until we will implement the agent from Cisco again.
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reviewer1122879
IT Manager Network at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The pros of the Cisco Nexus are the simplified integration with the data center and the end platform before building a data center.
Our primary use case of this solution is for the data centers.
We use the solution for the data center.
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Avelino Fernandes
IT specialist at IGFEJ
We use Cisco Nexus in our data center to aggregate all the systems in our enterprise. Everyone in the company uses it indirectly, so we have 72,000 users.
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reviewer1589751
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution is our aggregation switch. We have all our data services, and users (not end-users) services going through our Nexus. It connects our firewalls and it connects other switches and makes our load balances work. Basically, we were given the switch and then we configured it and we will put it in the network and we maintain it.
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SeniorNe0813
Senior Network Design Engineer at Kent State University
This solution is used in our data center. It is our layer-two switches that connect all of our servers to the data center firewall. Our data center is a little bit different than most in that we're only layer-two in the data center.
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Dan Newman
Principal Engineer 2 at Charter Communications, Inc.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus is for a VXLAN environment with some video multicast.
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reviewer1664805
Information Technology Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I do not know which version we are using.
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Yudi Aritonang
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama
We primarily use the solution as a switch. We use it for our data center.
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NetworkEcce9
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case for Nexus in our company is for the data center. Everybody that has access to our remote server rooms throughout the campus wants 10G data ports all the way across.
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Kervin Aterrado
Network Engineer at Table Mountain
We use this solution as a core aggregated switch.
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Danish Rizvi
Senior Network Engineer at Halliburton Company
We use this solution for our data center layer two, layer three, infrastructure.
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Khalid Mustafa
Service Validation Engineers at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution as an aggregate router in our data center environment so that we can have an extended VLAN port between different data centers, regional and local.
The company has multiple data centers and most of the connections between them are through the 9K switches. We also have a couple of them in our lab for testing. These are used to test throughput, the system reliability, accuracy, and scalability for how many VLAN extenders we can have in our infrastructure.
We are using Spine-and-Leaf architecture for our data centers.
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Omer Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the Nexus Series, that's the 7000 Series, as a core switch. We have other 10-gauge switches to work as a server switch.
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SeniorNe798f
Senior Network Engineer at Northrop Grumman
The product is basically used for our entire phone system.
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Ricardo Mancilla
Solutions Architect at ABS Technology
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is to provide data center access for our customers. This includes providing servers, storage, and interconnecting those to the rest of the network.
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NetworkDd05b
Network Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution in our data center core.
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NetworkE9b11
Network Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees
We use the 9000s in a series of different things in both the data center and even in the LAN (Local Area Network). Mainly we just use the products for the management of all the traffic — nothing really crazy. Being in the government, we can't use ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and certain other technologies yet. The 9000s are deployed for high-end layer two and layer three switching capabilities.
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LeaderOf432e
Leader of Network Engineering at MVP Health Care
We are using this solution in the redesign of our data center network. Specifically, to provide an aggregation point for our data center services.
View full review »We use this solution mainly for the data center and or a yacht. They were used as core switches on a three-layer network.
They were the core level for a 90-meter yacht. They were connected with a fiber single-mode backbone.
View full review »I use the solution in the customer's companies. I have used many different version of the solution.
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Zaki Shah
Sr. Data Center Network Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for data center connectivity and we integrate it with ACI.
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Roger Sherman
Network Engineer at American Honda Motor
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is the data center. We use it for all of our enterprise servers, for our phone systems, and other things along those lines.
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NetworkCaac9
Network Coordinator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We got it for its port density. Our primary use case of this solution is so we can connect all of our other departments and agencies. It'll be the main connection to our core routers. I don't work directly on it, I work with the router that connects to it.
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Timothy Patrick
Senior Network Engineer at Advanced Drainage Systems
This solution manages our data center and is our core infrastructure switch. All of our firewalls and application servers terminate into the 5K.
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reviewer1122534
Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is used as the core and access switches in our largest data center. We have several of them that make up our 40-gigabit uplink.
View full review »We use Cisco Nexus especially when we have bigger datacenter projects for organizations such as banks where the operations of all subsidiaries and sister companies are controlled from the head office.
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manager813261
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for many purposes. For example, to automate Nexus switches and to view the modern architecture network, such as SDN.
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reviewer1480044
CEO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
We use Cisco Nexus for the switches. It's a switch product, and I think we have 350 users on our network.
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Jon Cole
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case is for Data Center switches.
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SrNetwordef0
Sr Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using the Cisco Nexus for switching. We use the product for LAN switching, overall switching, and for the data center.
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NetworkE2c48
Network Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mostly what we use Cisco Nexus for is in our access layer and distribution networks on our campus.
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Husam Kabaha
CTO at Mechkar
I use Cisco Nexus for the private cloud.
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Consulta4de9
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
For the 9300 switches, we use them specifically for IPv6 routing in this particular instance, although there are plans to deploy them in a more general variety of switch-type use cases.
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NetworkE1a81
Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our core. We have Nexus 9000 and also Catalyst 9000 floor switches.
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reviewer1193787
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are using it for the data center. We have its latest version.
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Cody Boelens
Network Administrator at St Ambrose University
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is as a core fiber switch.
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SrManage17d3
Sr Manager of Network and Telephony at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The primary use case is for the core network infrastructure of our data centers. We use Nexus and the FEX line of products to interconnect all of the server infrastructure, as well as external connections that come in from our outside vendors.
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InfoTech2e8b
InfoTech Specialist at California Department of Corrections
This solution is used as a switch in our data center.
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CIOdf97
CIO at Masriacard
In my previous company, we relied on this solution as a part of the data center core switch. Everything inside the data center was connected through this unit.
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reviewer1481295
Practice Lead - Data Center Networking at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I am an engineer and work primarily with our data center network and data center security. The Nexus switch is a data center switch and I have a lot of recent experience with it. My company is a solution provider and this is one of the products that we sell to our clients.
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Tyler Kongs
Network Engineer at Archer Daniels Midland
Our primary use for this solution is as headend switches at remote sites.
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SrNetwor9862
Sr Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for our new data center.
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Infrastr6916
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use this solution for our data center switches.
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NetworkA4cd8
Network Adminstrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We use this solution as the fabric switches for our VMware environment.
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Nate Cielieska
Network Engineer at solutions4networks
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is network connectivity.
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Michael Ozorowsky
Network Engineer at Tampa General Hospital
We use Cisco Nexus for data center requirements and interconnectivity.
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reviewer1542720
Digital Transformation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the solution in a data center farm.
View full review »The Cisco Nexus switches are the best and most reliable solution for us in my previous company, which was a telecom service provider. We used cisco modular switches for our heavy services as part of our GSM network as it requires heavy processing and highest performance.
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NetworkEd74c
Network Engineer Principal
Our primary use case of this solution is for our data center environment.
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Andy Deshmukh
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
This solution is the backbone of our data center.
We have multiple tenants built on it, in a network-centric design. We have our Dev QA tenant, user acceptance tenant, production tenant, our DMZ, and then our user edge where everything comes in and goes out. We have firewalls in between all of the tenants, and we use ACI to microsegment between the networks, within the tenants. All of the intra-tenant traffic goes through the firewalls.
View full review »We use this solution in our data center.
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PreSales7bd0
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have a lot of customers that we implement Nexus platforms for.
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Ctio21c2
CTIO at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is for a secure and reliable connection to our servers. We use Nexus to connect to servers with a large capacity and high throughput. The solution has high availability which is very important for us, and Nexus provides that.
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Administ4e10
Administrator at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for our data center and for collaboration with other switches.
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Scott Black
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use Nexus primarily for our data centers.
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Andrew Svolopoulos
Unified Network Architect at Barry-Wehmiller
This solution is the backbone of our data center. It is the fabric to our UCS blade servers.
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NetworkE88b3
Network Engineer at Google
We use this solution for the access layer of our network.
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NetworkT7b7a
Network Technician at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
My primary use for this solution is bridging servers and storage arrays and networks across multiple domains.
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Wendy Guest
Network Analyst at Marion County
We use this solution in our data centers.
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Roberto Castillo
Internetwork Solution Engineer at OPLK
We primarily use this solution for data centers in places like high schools or businesses that support other businesses.
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NetworkE78dd
Network Engineer at SRPMIC
Our primary use for the Cisco Nexus is the data center, core routing, switching, etc.
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NetworkE1898
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for our networking.
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Yusuf Mian
Chief Technology Officer at Interlink Engineering Pvt Ltd
The primary uses of this solution are for managing email servers, EIP modules, and file servers.
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SeniorVo338e
Senior Voice Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the Cisco Nexus as our primary solution for the data center.
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Bala Panchanathan
Director at Wipro Technologies
We primarily use this product for campaign management.
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UnifiedCe19b
Unified Communications Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The entirety of our network infrastructure is Cisco-based, and our voice infrastructure comes across that as well. I handle the Unified Communications.
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ITEnginea057
IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use for Cisco Nexus is for storage.
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ProductMf527
Product Manager - Networking & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case of this solution is to provide Nexus 9000 in different models for the user on top of our switches or as core switches. It depends on the design and the customer's needs.
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CTOb1a5
CTO at a tech services company
Our primary use for this solution is enterprise networking.
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ITDirect96f6
IT Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case is for our core network.
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TechArch0f90
Tech Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We use Cisco Nexus primarily to check the health of our links. We use it to make sure if our links are good or not. It really helps with troubleshooting.
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NetworkA401c
Network Admin at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for an internet data center.
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NetworkE492f
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need. We use it for internal use, rather than resell it to our customers.
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reviewer938022
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are using the Cisco Nexus as our core switch for our main backbone.
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Charles Lacasse
Network Analyst at Govt of Canada
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for MACsec encryption.
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NetworkEf82e
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case is for multitenant switching in our data centers for our edge equipment to go in between our firewalls and out to the internet.
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Todd Neiert
Network Services Manager at Allen Systems Group
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for the data center.
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NetworkEd8c3
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our main use of Cisco Nexus is as our data center core switch.
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NetworkEe9dd
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our data center switches. It's our core switch that we use everywhere.
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NetworkA9d42
Network Analyst at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The Cisco Nexus is the core of our network, and I am responsible for troubleshooting the device.
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Principld494
Principle Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution in our data center.
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