We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies and others in LAN Switching."QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"It speeds up the network data transfer time."
"The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth."
"Nexus provides inner redundancy. It allows us to perform updates on individual switches, while still maintaining reliability and uptime on the server."
"In terms of stability, this solution is rock solid."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is network visibility. It becomes the core switch. All of the devices connected route towards it."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"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 better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"Cisco Nexus still needs more stability."
"The licensing is very complicated. They should work to simplify it."
"The operating system needs to be improved. There should be stability in the operating system, and it should not have as many vulnerabilities."
"Cisco Nexus is just a platform. You just set it up, give it an IP, and then start configuring it. But there are a million features to configure."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"Nexus is a costly solution."
"It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX.
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