Cisco ACIPricing

where you are not allowed to use the Security features of ACI it is to expensive to used it instead of a Legacy approach.

suitable for small clients or for small implementations since the cost of the platform is not cheap. … first it is very difficult to understand the whole interface. It is very expensive compared to other solutions. 9

Expensive compared with another SDN solutions.

better cost per port better cost per switch lower power consumption … Fastest and lower cost on a per-port basis Configurability of ports and switches

Cost is always a challenge and ACI is no different. The linkage between ACI and

public cloud & it has worked out cheaper for them than using AWS or GCP versions. We price it as a fixed price model with no usage-based costs. … Price Product Usability Vendor Reputa…

data centers that have less than 4 switches because of the complexity and pricing.

NSX is much easier to use but is expensive and the VMware teams usually do not want to support it.

Lower cost than FabricPath, maybe a little bit cheaper than Arista when we looked into it. I wasn't involved