We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and NETGEAR Switches 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."We are a Cisco shop. This solution is better compared to other options."
"The flexibility, how accurately the VPCs operate as well as the redundancy built into it with the VPCs are the most valuable features."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the rack-based design allowed us to eliminate chassis-based designs. The chassis design is more complicated to manage and maintain in field operations."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"We got increased bandwidth, faster performance, and newer software which has improved our organization."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches."
"The ability to tenant-out the traffic and segment it, without having to get into separate physical hardware or trying to figure out VDCs manually, has been really powerful and extremely useful for us."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"Remote management is the most important thing for us. And monitoring, of course, allows us to see when something is wrong with a client. We get notified that an access point is down, for instance, or that there are too many clients on one access point, so that we can log into the portal and manage the solution with the client instantly, from either a laptop or a cell phone, with the Insight app."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. I have not faced any issues with the product whatsoever."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"The solution is stable."
"We have one client that has three Insight switches and when we make a change to their network... we can make the configuration change and push it down to all three switches at once. We don't have to individually log on to each switch to make the change."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"The remote troubleshooting is pretty easy. You can turn off a port that might have a network loop created, or where there might be a bad NIC card that is creating issues. Being able to turn off that port remotely is fantastic, instead of having to replace the whole switch. Remote management is really easy."
"The price could be better."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"The installation process lasted too long, taking 16 to 24 hours for full completion."
"There is no feature parity between the 9K and the 5K or 7K, which means that it is harder to position the 9K to future proof them."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing. The solution is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it's costly for similar products."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its network management. The tool can be also more simplified."
"The main negative thing is the speed. When you use the portal, if you have a lot of customers and locations in the portal, and you need to scroll through those clients or those locations, it takes a pretty long time to load those pages and to select the client. That's the problem in the portal on the laptop, and it's the same problem in the portal on the app."
"Being able to pass AVB traffic over these switches, that would be a huge add. There are not many switches out that support that. The GS728TP NETGEAR switches used to or still do support AVB, but it would be ideal if the 4300 Series could support it as well."
"There is a lack of documentation, and the documentation I have is unclear, so I have to rely on Google for information."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"The scalability and warranty should also be improved."
"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff. Instead of having some manual configuration for common features, they may want to have a single wizard that could be put in place which would let you walk through creating multiple VLANs and different routes between VLANs in a wizard. Then, you wouldn't have to dig in so deep."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and ExtremeSwitching, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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