We performed a comparison between Cisco FabricPath and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Additional bandwidth is available when needed."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"Cisco is the market leader in this space and it is a product that I recommend."
"The solution has excellent stability."
"The most valuable features are the security, web control, and traffic control."
"It's very stable."
"It is stable and reliable."
"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."
"Solid product, communications and support from a well-known dependable company."
"The most valuable features are the great performance, high availability and easy administration."
"The flexibility, how accurately the VPCs operate as well as the redundancy built into it with the VPCs are the most valuable features."
"The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"Tech support is good."
"The setup is straightforward. I'd like to see the firmware and code upgradability to be slightly more intuitive."
"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."
"I would like to see better interoperability with other IT solutions."
"The initial setup is a little complex."
"Layer 3 does not have higher availability."
"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."
"The management features are in need of improvement."
"The solution is costly."
"The pricing could be adjusted to make it easier to sell to clients."
"The operating system needs to be improved. There should be stability in the operating system, and it should not have as many vulnerabilities."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"In terms of improvement, the stacking between the two switches in the higher availability model should be similar to Catalyst. It's better to have one interface for configuration."
"They need to understand that when we call them and have an issue, it's our production and sometimes they want us to do repairs that would cause other issues. That's the biggest problem."
"I would like to see a central management solution in order to have all of the equipment in one place."
"Currently, the switches don't behave like the 4500 switches in terms of acting as one physical chassis. So the multi-chassis PortChannel feature is not applicable in this case. Nevertheless, virtual port-channel feature covers this."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
Cisco FabricPath is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 21 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "On overall effective product with good performance and a simple setup ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric and Arista Campus LAN Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco FabricPath vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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