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We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches and Arista Campus LAN Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer service and support. The solution is good and people should know about it.""OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good.""With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly.""The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration.""These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure.""I rate the technical support an eight or a nine out of ten. So far, they've been very professional and helpful, especially when we need to raise a case for any issue."

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"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers.""The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products.""QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."

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"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done.""There is no OEM support in India so RMAs need to be sent to France, which takes a long time if the hardware is faulty.""I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems.""A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight.""There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."

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"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery.""I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports.""It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."

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  • "The price is okay. It's comparable to similar switches."
  • "The license is purchased one time only, it is a perpetual license with no renewal."
  • "OmniSwitch LAN Switches are cheaper than Cisco's switches."
  • "The solution’s price is at a moderate level."
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  • "The only licensing costs are for CloudVision, although the upfront price of the device is not cheap."
  • "The price is not that good, but our clients value the solution despite the price."
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    Alcatel Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches, OmniSwitch, OmniSwitch LAN Switches
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    Arista Campus LAN Switches are the perfect network solution for your most demanding workloads.With native support for VMware Virtualization and hundreds of Linux applications integrated into hardware platforms designed to meet the stringent power and cooling requirements of today's most demanding data centers, Arista delivers the most efficient and best performing 10Gb Ethernet platforms.
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    Advocate Health Care, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Azienda Ospedaliera della Provincia di Lodi, Centre Hospitalier Carcassonne, Certis Cisco Security, China Tianchen Engineering Corporation Co. LTD, City of Frankfurt, Dongseo University
    University of Winchester, AWE, picturemaxx, Medical Mutual, Leonix, CloudEra, National Physical Laboratory, Tri-State G&T, AIS, Morph, SingTel, SDSC, BBC
    Top Industries
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    Government24%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Real Estate/Law Firm10%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Consumer Goods Company10%
    Government6%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise49%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is ranked 10th in LAN Switching with 6 reviews while Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is rated 8.6, while Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches writes "With a good technical support in place, there needs to be an improvement in the way the tool is put together". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus and HPE ProCurve, whereas Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco FabricPath.

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