Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches vs. Cradlepoint Routers

Datacentres whether it is for Core, Top Of Rack or SAN it's great, enables high throughput and yet at achievable costs. I especially like using it as SAN switches compared to other SAN switches as it can be simpler to manager I wouldn't use it for campus or remote sites for the cost that it comes at and the additional setup that would be required.

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It has worked great for our emergency vehicles and mobile remote dispatch stations. We did have them at other bases as secondary internet access in the event of failure of our fiber, but I have found that is not as useful as we thought it may have been. I have temporarily disabled cellular on those devices and just did not have the need for it.

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• Routing data between idf's
• Secure access to core server infrastructure
• User interface for configuration changes
• Quality of service for different network devices

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• Ease of setup. After the SIM card is installed, you can have the device up in a matter of minutes.
• Central management using NetCloud.
• You get the bang for your buck.

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• Nexus 9000 could have smaller model for a lower pricepoint
• Nexus 9000 Features could all be turned on
• IKE security keys could automatically refresh on their own

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• Throughput was not great compared to similar solutions with same sim cards.
• Paid management portal.
• Overly complicated setup mainly due to the paid management portal.

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The N9Ks have served us well. A bit pricier than the competition, but everyone is familiar with NXOS and Cisco

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I have been using some type of device like this for a very long time. We have and will maintain the need for this and have no immediate plan to make any change from Cradlepoint Routers. They have been very solid. These devices are a bit pricey, however worth the money as they always work and are reliable and save IT staff time.

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It's been very comfortable to work with. So far no issues. Device is very understandable, as well as hardware is powerful enough to push a high volume of traffic over it and be comfortable that nothing goes wrong(only once the the appropriate research been validated). So far so good

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It has always been a pleasure working with that team. They always go above and beyond with getting the device working as you need it to work and are always willing to explain and answer any questions.

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Beyond purely political considerations regarding the use of Chinese products in our company, Cisco NEXUS switches support VPC, which was not the case with our Huawei Cloud Engines, which only supported the stack. This was a real problem during updates because we had to update the entire stack at once, which paralysed an entire rack.

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I have not used a cellular router before this, so I can't compare.

I am however familiar with Cradlepoint as designing components for Emergency Responders to keep them connected and online while dispatched. That was a deciding factor for us. We wanted something heavy duty and reliable.

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• We can use this switches for really long time.
• The software upgrade process is really non-disruptive on dual-homed devices.
• In 15 years of using Nexuses we don't have any big problem with them.

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• For the price I don't think it effectively "wow'd" the client.
• Throughput caused our network service to not be fully utilized.

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