We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is stability. We have a pretty large campus."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need."
"Port density and port speed performance are both suitable. It has some appealing intangibles."
"For a customer, it is easy to configure and to add ports through the LAN the GUI."
"The operating system needs to be improved. There should be stability in the operating system, and it should not have as many vulnerabilities."
"There is limited guidance in terms of the use and configuration of Cisco Nexus for specific use cases. The documentation is not comprehensive, and you have to do a lot of online research."
"They need to offer fibre switches in the 9K series."
"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."
"One improvement needed is support for Multi-CAD scale that we were concerned about. We're not hitting any limits at this point."
"This solution costs a lot."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"The software is not as mature as it could be and needs some integration improvements with other orchestrators."
"Customers do not prefer this to connect to multiple cities."
"Instead of competing at the enterprise level with that product, they should probably scale it. With all of the ports, they should develop a good mid-level business to truly scale it and gain adoption before attempting to go after the enterprise."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is ranked 12th in LAN Switching with 2 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is rated 6.6. 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 Dell PowerSwitch N-Series writes "Performs well, but the support and stability could be improved". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco FabricPath, whereas Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is most compared with Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches.
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