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"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers.""QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications.""The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."

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"The most valuable features are the lead time and the high quality of the product.""The solution has excellent stability.""As I mentioned earlier, the durability, flexibility, and security of Cisco devices are notable. Particularly with switches, the capability to implement multiple VLANs and easily aggregate the network has been advantageous. The ability to have different VLANs and aggregate the network without complications is a key feature of Cisco FabricPath.""The most valuable feature is the ability to migrate VMs between data centers.""FabricPath's best features are routing, OSPS, ethernet, and performance.""The most valuable feature is the central management where the customer can receive all the alerts.""The fact that the solution is on the cloud is its most valuable aspect. If you are on the cloud, you can manage your network from anywhere, any place. It's very good.""The best features of Cisco FabricPath is performance and reliability."

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"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports.""One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery.""It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."

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"Lack of security features for which we need to use another solution.""The pricing could be adjusted to make it easier to sell to clients.""The management features are in need of improvement.""While Cisco products are excellent, the problem is the cost. Cisco products are product, Cisco products are very expensive. I rate Cisco FabricPath three out of 10 for affordability.""The solution should offer better reporting.""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.""The cloud version of Cisco Fabric Path could be improved.""Layer 3 does not have higher availability."

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  • "The only licensing costs are for CloudVision, although the upfront price of the device is not cheap."
  • "The price is not that good, but our clients value the solution despite the price."
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  • "The pricing for this product is good."
  • "The price of Cisco FabricPath could be reduced, it is expensive in the market here in Sri Lanka. The solution is subscriptions based, if the customer wants any future integrations, or if there are any future enhancements they will have to pay. There are different license options available, such as one or three years purchases."
  • "FabricPath is very reasonably priced."
  • "The solution falls under the pricier category, but it provides value for the price charged."
  • "It is very expensive."
  • "I rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten. Cisco switches cost around 15,000 dollars, and DNS licenses cost around 25,000 dollars. The total amount is 45,000 dollars, which is too expensive."
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    Overview
    Arista Campus LAN Switches are the perfect network solution for your most demanding workloads.With native support for VMware Virtualization and hundreds of Linux applications integrated into hardware platforms designed to meet the stringent power and cooling requirements of today's most demanding data centers, Arista delivers the most efficient and best performing 10Gb Ethernet platforms.
    Cisco FabricPath is a Cisco NX-OS software innovation combining the plug-and-play simplicity of Ethernet with the reliability and scalability of Layer 3 routing. Using FabricPath, you can build highly scalable Layer 2 multipath networks without the Spanning Tree Protocol. Such networks are particularly suitable for large virtualization deployments, private clouds, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The benefits of Cisco FabricPath include: Minimal commands per switch ease configuration and operation, Autodiscovery simplifies addition of new links and switches, Provision additional network bandwidth without impacting network, Supports one-, two-, or three-tier architectures, VLAN extensibility across the data center.
    Sample Customers
    University of Winchester, AWE, picturemaxx, Medical Mutual, Leonix, CloudEra, National Physical Laboratory, Tri-State G&T, AIS, Morph, SingTel, SDSC, BBC
    Bellevue, Calligaris, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Management Science Associates, Multi-Customer, Oediv, Roper St. Francis, SNAM
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Consumer Goods Company10%
    Aerospace/Defense Firm6%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider27%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Integrator9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company31%
    Government14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    University7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise27%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco FabricPath is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 22 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "On overall effective product with good performance and a simple setup ". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, whereas Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric and Cisco Nexus.

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