Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs Cisco Nexus comparison

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Cisco are both solutions in the LAN Switching category. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is ranked #11, while Cisco is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise holds a 4.2% mindshare in LS, compared to Cisco’s 8.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Cisco users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches and Cisco Nexus are both key players in the network switching market. Cisco Nexus leads the competition due to its advanced feature set, making it preferable for high-demand environments.

Features: Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches focus on energy efficiency, seamless scalability, and a robust security framework while Cisco Nexus provides advanced virtualization capabilities, high-performance networking for data centers, and innovative automation tools.

Room for Improvement: Alcatel-Lucent could enhance its virtualization features, increase automation tools, and expand its high-performance integration. Cisco Nexus could improve its user interface, reduce deployment complexity, and further simplify its pricing model.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alcatel-Lucent ensures swift deployment with solid customer support, which simplifies integration into established systems. Cisco Nexus, despite a more intricate deployment approach, offers extensive resources and support, emphasizing scalability and robust customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch is more economical initially, presenting an attractive option for budget-conscious businesses and still delivering a strong ROI through operational efficiency. Cisco Nexus, though requiring a higher initial investment, offers an outstanding ROI with its state-of-the-art performance and scalability, catering to organizations seeking high-level network functionality.

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Categories and Ranking

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Ranking in LAN Switching

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cisco Nexus

Ranking in LAN Switching

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

107

Ranking in other categories

Data Center Networking (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is 4.2%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Nexus is 8.7%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

LAN Switching Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cisco Nexus	8.7%
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches	4.2%
Other	87.1%

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SNOC Service Delivery Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

With a good technical support in place, there needs to be an improvement in the way the tool is put together

I am not sure from the client's perspective what can be improved in the tool. From my perspective, service provisioning in the solution needs to improve. One of the things I noticed is the physical components that need to be improved. In general, the way the product is put together is not well done. For instance, in Cisco, things come together very nicely. Also, from a price point perspective, the product is very different from the other solutions. One of the things that Cisco does a lot better than Alcatel is the way that products are put together, especially in terms of how the brackets fit or the way switches are mounted. Also, components that need to be removable components so that they can provide a better view in general to its users, like Cisco.

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reviewer2669133

Global Head, Network Endpoint Connectivity at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Streamlines network operations with automation and visibility while initial setup complexity and code stability improve

When I talk about data centers, which are critical infrastructure and centralized application hubs, the Nexus platforms should be highly stable. Initially, the codes I received through ACI were quite unstable, causing me to frequently replace them, which led to significant issues. However, it is much more stable now. Nonetheless, the initial instability with ACI iOS upgrades was a significant problem.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I rate the technical support an eight or a nine out of ten. So far, they've been very professional and helpful, especially when we need to raise a case for any issue."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."

"OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good."

"One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer service and support. The solution is good and people should know about it."

"These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure."

"With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly."

"We have continuity with Cisco, which provides a very high-end solution."

"Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices."

"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."

"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."

"From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."

"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is speed compared to what you would get from a Catalyst Series switch."

"We've found their tech support to be excellent, especially in their willingness to resolve issues promptly."

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Cons

"There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."

"There is no OEM support in India so RMAs need to be sent to France, which takes a long time if the hardware is faulty."

"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done."

"I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems."

"A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight."

"It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity."

"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."

"Technical support could be better."

"The solution has room for improvement in terms of the learning curve."

"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."

"The initial setup wasn't simple or user-friendly."

"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."

"There is always room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is okay. It's comparable to similar switches."

"The solution’s price is at a moderate level."

"The license is purchased one time only, it is a perpetual license with no renewal."

"OmniSwitch LAN Switches are cheaper than Cisco's switches."

"We use a local distributor for support, which is very expensive."

"We have three hundred to four hundred data centers of Nexus. So the coverage associated with Smart Net is 27 by 4, is basically what we spend each year. If the incentives get better, which I know they're working on, it would be great but right now we're buying year to year."

"Costs more than most, but the reliability pays for the difference."

"It's worth the money we're paying for Nexus."

"It is very expensive. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"The Nexus 9000 is very competitively priced."

"Cisco Nexus is not a cheaply priced product."

"If you compare Cisco hardware to any other vendors, such as HPE, they are more expensive. There is a license to use the solution. If my customer's licenses are about to expire I receive notification from Cisco, this is very helpful."

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

The Cisco Nexus family of switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following characteristics: infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency, transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can also handle architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing and operational continuity to meet your need for an environment where system availability is assumed and maintenance windows are rare if not totally extinct.

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