We performed a comparison between Cisco FabricPath and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best features of Cisco FabricPath is performance and reliability."
"The technical assistance is good."
"The most valuable features are the security, web control, and traffic control."
"Cisco is the market leader in this space and it is a product that I recommend."
"The most valuable features are the lead time and the high quality of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to migrate VMs between data centers."
"The solution has excellent stability."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable soltuion."
"We have found that logical tenant segregation to be the most useful feature."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions through the ability to do things in a maintenance window while allowing other teams to continue to work."
"We have continuity with Cisco, which provides a very high-end solution."
"You can scale the product."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"It's easy to use, and the performance is great."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The documents could improve for Cisco FabricPath. There are times when the relevant information is not present in the different sections of the documents, such as deployment. The documents should be more detailed and enhanced."
"I would like one management console to control the network."
"The prices for FabricPath are very high, and Cisco also takes a long time to deliver products (in Mexico, the delivery time is eight months)."
"The initial setup is a little complex."
"If Cisco can include management for this protocol in Layer 3, that would be ideal."
"The pricing could be adjusted to make it easier to sell to clients."
"The solution is complex to set up."
"Lacks sufficient integration with SIEM."
"Overall, I wish it was a more intuitive OS."
"One of our switches died last week and we were able to RMA it. Within four hours it arrived on time and worked."
"The scalability can be improved."
"Stability is not really up to the mark."
"This solution costs a lot."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing. The solution is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it's costly for similar products."
"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 some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
Cisco FabricPath is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 22 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "Makes multi-layer networking easy and increases network efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric and Arista Campus LAN Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and NETGEAR Switches. See our Cisco FabricPath vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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