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Deploys applications quickly with automation and is stable and scalable
Cisco ACI improved the stability of our IT system and our data center.
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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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    Questions from the Community
    What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
    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 »
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    What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
    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 »
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    What do you like most about Cisco ACI?
    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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    Ranking
    2nd
    out of 22 in Software Defined Networking (SDN)
    Views
    1,342
    Comparisons
    251
    Reviews
    19
    Average Words per Review
    444
    Rating
    8.4
    12th
    out of 22 in Software Defined Networking (SDN)
    Views
    319
    Comparisons
    303
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
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    Comparisons
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    Compared 13% of the time.
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    Nuage Networks vs. Cisco ACI
    Compared 9% of the time.
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    Meraki SD-WAN vs. Cisco ACI
    Compared 3% of the time.
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    VMware NSX vs. HPE SDN
    Compared 38% of the time.
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    Cisco SD-WAN vs. HPE SDN
    Compared 21% of the time.
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    Meraki SD-WAN vs. HPE SDN
    Compared 10% of the time.
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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.
    HPE Software Defined Networking gives network administrators the ability to pinpoint, diagnose, verify and solve network issues in real-time, from data centre to branch office. The SDN Software Developer Kit lets you create apps for any standards-based, SDN-enabled device by quickly setting up a developer environment and creating applications on the HPE VAN SDN Controller. SDN applications allows you to join the platform disccusion to learn and share your own apps with active SDN community then deploy directly to the enterprise-ready HPE VAN SDN Controller, the control point for your SDN-enabled network that simplifies management, provisioning and orchestration. Portfolio for SDN Transformation includes: SDN Insfrastructure, Network Virtualization and SDN Applications.
    Sample Customers
    Bowling Green State University, du, Qatar University
    UBM Tech, The Via Group
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government10%
    Real Estate/Law Firm6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Cisco ACI is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 96 reviews while HPE SDN is ranked 12th in Software Defined Networking (SDN). Cisco ACI is rated 8.0, while HPE SDN 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 Meraki SD-WAN, whereas HPE SDN is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco SD-WAN, Juniper Contrail Networking and Meraki SD-WAN.

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