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 #11 with an average rating of 8.3, while Cisco is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2. Arista holds a 2.9% mindshare in LS, compared to Cisco’s 8.5% 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 August 2025, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Arista Campus LAN Switches is 2.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Nexus is 8.5%, down from 11.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Juniper QFabric is 2.4%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Moshiur-Rahman Khan

CEO at IOPoint.com

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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DeepakYadav1

Network Engineer at Craw Security

Offers good processing power to users

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a four to five out of ten. I rate the stability of the product as four to five out of ten based on the fact that I have checked the tool's features. I also know that there are many more options available in the market, like Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, and other devices, which offer affordable, configurable, and scalable devices that I should plan to buy. Cisco is not providing tools for everything my company needs, but it is a good product. The market competition is high nowadays. Cisco is still handling some old parts. Cisco's old products make up approximately 67 percent of the devices offered in the networking industry. Despite the competition from products like Palo Alto, Check Point, and Fortinet, Cisco is not very scalable, but all its devices are updated regularly.

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Suresh Pathipatti

Senior Information Technology Administrator at Aighospital

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

"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability because Arista falls in an industry that is very similar to Cisco."

"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."

"The technology is scalable as much as you want."

"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."

"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."

"This solution has allowed us to better prepare our network for 10-gigabit."

"In terms of stability, this solution is rock solid."

"The integrations are valuable."

"The most valuable features are the access layer security, OpenConfig, and OpenFlow."

"This solution improves network speed and provides high availability for our users."

"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."

"The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth."

"It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."

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"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."

"The vendor maintains the product well."

"The solution is stable."

"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."

"It's user-friendly."

"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."

"The 40 gig backbone InterConneX was valuable for our use case. It is even faster now. QFabric has spine-leaf technology or topology, which basically makes every single hop only one hop away in terms of connecting from one device to another. It is a pretty good and robust solution. It works pretty well in terms of scalability, and their technical support is amazing."

"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."

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Cons

"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."

"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."

"The complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"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."

"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."

"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."

"Data center access is stable and high speed but it is not compatible with Cisco's server hardware devices. The solution can be technically improved and can have features like automation, better visibility, better functionality, and cheap pricing."

"I don't really deal with the pricing but I know that it's not cheap."

"There is limited guidance in terms of the use and configuration of Cisco Nexus for specific use cases. The documentation is not comprehensive, and you have to do a lot of online research."

"The implementation process could be easier, which is something that should be improved."

"As a device meant to lead the processes related to networking and troubleshooting, I feel both aspects can be described as areas with certain concerns where improvements are required."

"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."

"The cost of the support can be improved. We had critical operations, and we needed 24/7 support for 365 days, which was quite expensive. We had to go for a very costly support contract, which was really a concern. The availability of spare parts, especially in a remote location such as Egypt, can also be improved."

More Cisco Nexus cons

"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."

"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."

"The stability needs to be improved."

"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."

"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."

"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The problem with Cisco, from what I see, is that their costs are much higher."

"We have a virtual license."

"Cisco Nexus is not cheap compared to Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point."

"The solution should be more cost-effective in general."

"Our licensing fees are approximately $2,000 USD per year."

"Cisco's licensing structures can be complex across different technologies, for example, unified communications."

"All of our costs including subscription, licensing, and support services are bundled together, and the cost is approximately $100,000 USD per year."

"I don't like the Smart Licensing models that Cisco uses."

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"The price is relatively high, but it offers an advantage over its competitors by providing better performance and functionality."

"Juniper QFabric is a high-level solution but it could be less expensive."

"In terms of price, the QFabric solution is going to be probably in the middle of the road for a fabric solution."

"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."

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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?

All solutions are very expensive and not an economy solution.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Nexus?

All solutions are very expensive and not an economy solution. The solution is on-premises and stable. We haven't trie...

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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.

Juniper

Sample Customers

University of Winchester, AWE, picturemaxx, Medical Mutual, Leonix, CloudEra, National Physical Laboratory, Tri-State G&T, AIS, Morph, SingTel, SDSC, BBC

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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