We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and ExtremeSwitching 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."Cisco technical support is a good backup team when you have issues with anything. If you open a case they are very good at following up and making sure that the issue's resolved according to the needs of our network."
"It's easy to use."
"We now have one box that does multiple services."
"This is a very stable solution."
"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."
"It gives me an unparalleled ability to build out my environment differently than I would have if I was going with another vendor."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"The product offers a single management platform for multiple models of switches. The tool also allows users to manage multiple sites from a single dashboard."
"In the case of small businesses, the solution is budget-friendly and easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of ExtremeSwitching are that they are robust and have plenty of features. There is a lot of functionality. They have a lot of other features ExtremeSwitching that you can get involved with but I haven't been using many of them."
"They are good. We have been using them for about two years, and we are satisfied with their performance. For our network environment, these switches are working fine."
"The price is low compared to the competition."
"ExtremeSwitching fabric technology is a unique technology used to protect against viruses. ExtremeCloud IQ is a very good and feature-rich solution compared to Cisco, Ruxi Networks, or Huawei."
"Setup was easy. It only took a couple of hours to set up."
"The performance of ExtremeSwitching is good."
"The GUI interface could be improved to make it more user friendly."
"I would like to see more on-device programmability, as it seems to be lacking in this platform."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"They need to offer fibre switches in the 9K series."
"The product lacks options for integration with other market products that would allow us more flexibility."
"My only complaint is that not all of the ports on it are enabled from the start."
"The pricing must be improved."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"The solution lacks a cyber asset attack capability."
"The training and resources for learning are lacking."
"I believe they should be more aggressive in terms of pricing."
"It could be cheaper in general."
"There are latency issues that need to be addressed."
"Their support could definitely be better."
"ExtremeSwitching has many features but having come from Cisco environments, there is a steep learning curve to learning all the functionality."
"The licensing is expensive."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while ExtremeSwitching is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 18 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while ExtremeSwitching 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 ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper QFabric, whereas ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and NETGEAR Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. ExtremeSwitching report.
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