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Cisco Nexus Series Switches Review
August 26, 2023

Cisco Nexus Series Switches Review

Ryan Lundebrek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus Series Switches

We use currently the Cisco seven K and five K combo with effects extenders in our data centers, for the county. We have a primary and a redundant data center over about a 30-kilometer WAN. And those data centers are fully tied together with OTV with four redundancies among the cores. As a government organization, we have a lot of important departments that require a consistent and you know, basically constant availability of data, right? Including things like, you know, 911 and police and you know human services, all kinds of very important services. The system provides a backbone for the entire county's network that spreads across the entire county. And it needs to be up and running all the time. And that's what it does. Keeps that running all the time.
  • Things that we really like about the Cisco Nexus products is that they are incredibly reliable. That's a big thing, right? As we're running the core of a system and they need to be up all the time and we need to have reliable not just reliable performance, but also high performance.
  • We want to have everything run as fast as it can run and they provide low latency, fast performance in our data center with, you know, high availability, high uptime, and that's what we need and that's what it does.
  • Well, I mean the Cisco Nexus products are high-end data center switches. They're not the easiest thing to configure. They have a lot of ins and outs you need to know about them. But you know, it's getting better with some of the newer products, but we're still running those out like Nexus Dashboard and ACL and things like that. But yeah, they're definitely not like, you know, not for the beginner to try and implement.
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Equivalent to the Nexus stuff? I've used a lot. My previous job got them out of the HP Aruba product line for some of their hiring ends, and switches. I've also worked with some Juniper and not much around anymore, but the Quet product line.

Do you think Cisco Nexus Series Switches delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Nexus Series Switches's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Nexus Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Nexus Series Switches go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Cisco Nexus Series Switches again?

Yes

It is a perfect data center product, so I mean, it is meant to provide very high performance in that in your data center. It moves data from point to point incredibly quickly and very latency. That's something that you don't see on some lower-end switches where like the latency from say a server to another server might vary a little bit. It might pop up and down. You get like these little bumps in performance, but a lot of the data centers, you don't want that. You want consistent, easy performance. You want that, not only the throughput to be there all the time, but you want it to be consistent, not bursty or little laggy bubbles of performance. And that's what this thing does. They were incredibly consistent Right before.