Cisco Meraki Insight vs. Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Meraki Insight
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Cisco Meraki Insight is a network analytics tool that supports troubleshooting, and helps IT administrators optimize the end user experience, so as to significantly reduce the time it takes to isolate network or application problems.N/A
Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard simplifies data-center networks with automation and analytics. The data-center network helps organizations to meet business demands, and provision reliable data-center networking services as fast as possible, when and where organizations need it. As network infrastructure management is becoming more complex, diverse, and distributed, with multiple configuration points, monitoring tools, and vast amounts of data being generated every second. Cisco Nexus Dashboard is…N/A
Pricing
Cisco Meraki InsightCisco Nexus Dashboard
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Offerings
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Cisco Meraki InsightCisco Nexus Dashboard
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Dell PowerConnect Switches (discontinued)
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Cisco Nexus Series Switches
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Meraki InsightCisco Nexus Dashboard
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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7.8
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Usability
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9.0
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Performance
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8.8
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Product Scalability
10.0
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8.8
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User Testimonials
Cisco Meraki InsightCisco Nexus Dashboard
Likelihood to Recommend
We found that Cisco Meraki is well suited to our education environment. Utilized across a central network (although it could easily be cloud-connected), we use this system to monitor (in real-time) network events. Our Wi-Fi network is a good example; we can easily issue guest Wi-Fi codes and even delegate access to code generation to our reception teams so that they can issue them to guests.
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Nexus Dashboard is a vital tool for Cisco data center Nexus deployments, in my opinion. By utilizing multiple applications in the suite, a business can utilize orchestration, monitor services and traffic, test deployment scenarios, verify upgrade processes and readiness, etc. The capabilities of the system can allow for SAN MDS controls, traditional Nexus NXOS integration, and/or essential ACI tools
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Pros
  • Securing appliances with the ability to automatically update firmware or schedule at our convenience.
  • Support Teams, we cannot emphasize enough the outstanding support Cisco Meraki provides and they are always willing to go the extra mile to ensure everything is working well.
  • Warranty of products, if ever there is a question on physical equipment Cisco Meraki replaces it quickly no questions asked.
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  • It provides monitoring for our overall ACI Fabric which includes the Controller, Spine, and Leaf Switches.
  • It gives you a single pane of visibility of all of your ACI fabric using Nexus Dashboard, no need to login to each of the multiple ACI fabric controllers.
  • Provides an assurance analysis to to your ACI fabric before implementing any change in configuration, they have the Pre-change analysis prior to the firmware upgrade.
  • Gives you the overall health of your Fabric and provides anomaly severity.
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Cons
  • Menu layout.
  • Email notifications.
  • Adoption process.
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  • Flow Telemetry - Need to overcome the restrictions of 20000 flow/sec. No DataCenter is small enough to pump only 20K flows per second. And we want to use this product for proactive monitoring so we cannot decide on a small segment to monitor flow for beforehand.
  • Creating tags and label for clubbing certain entities so that we can create customized dashboards to monitor and provide access to Operations team
  • Scheduled Reports and Reporting capability is lacking
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Usability
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For the end user, it is relatively easy to use. However, some training and practice is a must because the NSO is not as straightforward as the traditional router CLI. For the administrator, Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) is just like another program running on the Linux system--there is no big difference.
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Performance
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Great and effective automation functionalities and the tools on network security management are the best and easy data reports building. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller feature for the network monitoring and easy management of various services and even offers the best analytics and also powerful integration tools for easy data migration.
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Cisco Meraki has made the world of management so much easier, allowing IT Administrators and Business Management personnel to enjoy more time on the business needs and less time managing equipment.
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The Cisco Nexus Series switches perform admirably in our blended distributed system. We have been dealing with any of these sorts of switches for over 5 years and have been exceptionally happy with their functionality. Several of our other computer networks in our data rooms have proved effective with Cisco equipment. Because of the simplicity of maintenance and the high quality of technical support provided by Cisco representatives, there is a high level of trust in these switches.
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Scalability
Just about every department we've been asked to provide access to has been able to utilize this system. Be it from a CCTV perspective or for environment reporting, Cisco Meraki Insight can fit into this situation with ease, and without a great deal of training, our users found the system very intuitive.
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The platform is very well done, and to date, I have had no complaints about the implementation of the platform and no security issues or vulnerabilities. Cisco in all its product releases new versions to resolve security issues or bugs that appear on the platform, this is a big plus.
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Return on Investment
  • The ease of use saved us many hours of billable time.
  • Support added lots of value.
  • Licensing and equipment cost really put a damper on overall value (being so high).
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  • Because it guarantees us expandable network services and without any interruption, providing a better service to each of our clients has been possible.
  • It has allowed us to keep the services innovated, doing this process in a reduced time, since it does not require a long programming, so implementing new services is done at a rapid pace.
  • Its automation has allowed us to reduce the burden of manual configurations, so having errors has also decreased.
  • Because it is based on an automation and orchestration model, providing faster and larger-scale services is possible.
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ScreenShots

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