Cisco ACI vs ECI Mercury [EOL] comparison

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We performed a comparison between Cisco ACI and ECI Mercury [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "The pricing is pretty good for new technology."
  • "It saves time and resources."
  • "The price could be improved. It is expensive, but then again, it is Cisco. The price is worth what you pay for."
  • "We have seen time improvement using the product."
  • "The thing that I like the most from Cisco is the support and all the documentation that they have. We do have to pay for it though."
  • "We bought a package for hardware, software, and support. At that time, Cisco was simply selling that package to distributors, then we opted for it directly."
  • "We used Cisco Professional Services for the deployment. They were outstanding, but very expensive."
  • "Price is always an issue."
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    Top Answer:There are some very major differences between both the Products and to name a few -Cisco ACI have physical network gear (9K Switches) where the Code runs in ACI Policy Mode & the UCS server where… more »
    Top Answer:Once you know your way around the Cisco ecosystem, using Cisco ACI is not so difficult. It is a global product, so when you change one interface, changes are automatically reflected on every switch… more »
    Top Answer:The flexibility of adding new components with minimal impact on existing services running in the data center is a key benefit of this ACI-based solution.
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    444
    Rating
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    Also Known As
    ECI Mercury NFV, ECI Mercury Network Functions Virtualization
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    Overview
    Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) reduces TCO, automates IT tasks, and accelerates data center application deployments. It accomplishes this using a business-relevant Software Defined Networking (SDN) policy model across networks, servers, storage, security, and services.

    Providing end-users with the best low-latency experience, Mercury excels at deploying virtualized network functions at the mobile edge, at the customer premises, and in the network as an edge cloud. Mercury NFV platforms ensure that your network is always ready to respond quickly to new customer service opportunities.

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    Bowling Green State University, du, Qatar University
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    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider20%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Cisco ACI is ranked 1st in Network Virtualization with 96 reviews while ECI Mercury [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Virtualization. Cisco ACI is rated 8.0, while ECI Mercury [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cisco ACI writes "Stable, easy to extend, scalable, and has a host-based routing feature". On the other hand, Cisco ACI is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Nuage Networks, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Juniper Contrail Networking, whereas ECI Mercury [EOL] is most compared with .

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