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Arista Campus LAN Switches vs Cisco Nexus vs Juniper QFabric comparison

Arista and Cisco are both solutions in the LAN Switching category. Arista is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while Cisco is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3. Arista holds a 3.7% mindshare in LS, compared to Cisco’s 9.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Arista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Cisco users who would recommend it.
Arista Campus LAN Switches
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100% willing to recommend
Cisco Nexus
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96% willing to recommend
Juniper QFabric
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches, Cisco Nexus, and Juniper QFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Arista Campus LAN Switches is 3.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Nexus is 9.0%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Juniper QFabric is 3.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
LAN Switching Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Cisco Nexus9.0%
Arista Campus LAN Switches3.7%
Juniper QFabric3.0%
Other84.3%
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Moshiur-Rahman Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
A switching solution that provides seamless connectivity but has a high renewal cost
We have numerous implementations of Arista switches. Cisco has a significant issue. It cannot maintain its service commitment regarding daily LAN returns, leading to client dissatisfaction. There are substantial delivery delays. Furthermore, Cisco currently charges double for the same product, which impacts cost-effectiveness. We found an issue with Arista Campus LAN Switches regarding license renewals. We have to renew the license every three years, which can be a challenge for customers. Arista, like other vendors, now follows a license-based system. In the past, we could purchase a Cisco system that would run without needing continuous license renewals. However, the current model requires regular license renewals, typically every three years, similar to Arista's approach. The renewal cost for Arista licenses is quite high. For instance, Cisco's renewal cost is about 22% of the total system cost, and Aroware also has a 22% renewal cost. In contrast, Arista's renewal cost is almost 55% or more, presenting a significant challenge for customers.
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Mohammed Faisal Ikram - PeerSpot reviewer
Has experienced high costs in core deployments but continues to appreciate strong support and switching performance
Cisco Nexus may not be very popular because of the requirements that we come across, as it will go into the core data centers, whereas we work with most of the corporate sectors, so Cisco Nexus is not a frequent seller, and you'll find more edge switches selling in the market. It might be pretty expensive for other companies. I don't think there are any other particular disadvantages of Cisco Nexus besides their pricing.
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Suresh Pathipatti - PeerSpot reviewer
Performs well, is easy to set up, and the vendor maintains the product well
QFabric is the core switch. We also have two Brocade switches for the Fibre level The product works fine. It is an excellent product. There are different element systems and different options for each generation of the tool. We maintain the data center and analyze issues. I have no negative…
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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

"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability because Arista falls in an industry that is very similar to Cisco."
"The technology is scalable as much as you want."
"I use the solution for connectivity in data centers and LANs, providing Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity based on network needs."
"The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is its stability."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center."
"We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate."
"This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Cisco Nexus provides a reliable switching platform for our data centers."
"It speeds up the network data transfer time."
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"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fabric backplane having upwards of 160 GB of communication. It is a top-of-the-rack solution where you have your directors sitting in the main area and then you have your nodes expanded out to your multiple cabinets. It has a very good design and could be your server backbone."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"The solution is stable."
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Cons

"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"We have to renew the license every three years, which can be a challenge for customers. Arista, like other vendors, now follows a license-based system."
"The complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"I think there's still room for improvement. Arista Campus LAN Switches are not highly scalable as they are hardware-based. If hardware requirements exceed capacity, the product needs to be changed, which can impact service."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"The price could be better."
"Cisco Nexus still needs more stability."
"With some of the products we had before, we had a little more downtime than we would like."
"There is an ongoing problem with the limitation of the TCAM table, which is that it doesn't have enough memory to allow you to be really granular with your policy."
"I would like to see a lighter platform."
"There is always room for improvement."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
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"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"They are working on the virtualization of the actual fabric layer. They are moving away from the original spine-leaf design to a different infrastructure. Instead of having three tiers, which was the director of the interconnected nodes, they cut them back, and they still have that kind of structure."
"I do not use GUI's very much for switch stacks. I am always in the CLI. However, I do know that Juniper in the past has lacked on their GUI's, but they have been working on it."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is not that good, but our clients value the solution despite the price."
"The only licensing costs are for CloudVision, although the upfront price of the device is not cheap."
"This is a very expensive product."
"The price of this solution is good when compared to others in the market."
"The price of the product is reasonable."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution should be more cost-effective in general."
"The license for Cisco Nexus is one year to three years, in this case for the SMARTnet. It is a price per unit, in terms of this specific appliance."
"Our licensing fees are paid annually."
"We have a three-year subscription for our licensing fees."
More Cisco Nexus pricing and cost advice
"In terms of price, the QFabric solution is going to be probably in the middle of the road for a fabric solution."
"Juniper QFabric is a high-level solution but it could be less expensive."
"The pricing is high and it is possible to find better pricing option solutions on the market, but the licensing model is quite flexible."
"The pricing is high."
"The price for Juniper QFabric could improve. There are subscription, maintenance, and add-on feature fees."
"The price is relatively high, but it offers an advantage over its competitors by providing better performance and functionality."
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Top Industries

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7%
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6%
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Company Size

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Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
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Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise82
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Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arista Campus LAN Switches?
I have cross-checked because this network is a ten-gig network. We are using the multigig switches, which Cisco also ...
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What needs improvement with Arista Campus LAN Switches?
I think there's still room for improvement. Arista Campus LAN Switches are not highly scalable as they are hardware-b...
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What is your primary use case for Arista Campus LAN Switches?
I use the solution for connectivity in data centers and LANs, providing Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity based on net...
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What do you like most about Cisco Nexus?
The product's initial setup phase is very easy.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Nexus?
We are a reseller, and we sell products to our customers.
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What needs improvement with Cisco Nexus?
Cisco Nexus may not be very popular because of the requirements that we come across, as it will go into the core data...
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What do you like most about Juniper QFabric?
The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Juniper QFabric?
Juniper QFabric is not overly expensive. Licensing is required for certain features like vRRP, but setting up a virtu...
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What needs improvement with Juniper QFabric?
Improvements could be made to QFabric's lifecycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extendi...
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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.
Arista
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.
Cisco
Juniper QFabric System is composed of multiple components working together as a single switch to provide high-performance, any-to-any connectivity and management simplicity in the data center. The QFabric System flattens the entire data center network to a single tier where all access points are equal, eliminating the effects of network locality and making it the ideal network foundation for cloud-ready, virtualized data centers.The highly scalable QFabric System improves application performance with low latency and converged services in a nonblocking, lossless architecture that supports Layer 2, Layer 3, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities.
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Sample Customers

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Advanced Medical Transport, Banco de Guayaquil, Baylor Scott & White Health, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, Calligaris, Children's Hospital Colorado, City of Biel, Del Papa Distributing, Department of Justice, Dimension Data, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS), Hertz, K&L Gates , LightEdge, Lone Star College System, Management Science Associates, Mindtree, NBC Olympics, Quest, Sony Corporation, The Department of Education in Western Australia, Valley Proteins
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