Cisco Nexus Series Switches

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What is Cisco Nexus Series Switches?

Cisco Nexus is a series of network switches.

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

22.1%

906 installations of 4,107

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

13.6%

557 installations of 4,107

“We use them in Data Center LAN scenario, mostly to interconnect different vendor products like databases, firewalls, load balancers.”
— Network Supervisor, Grupo Salinas (10,001+ employees)

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13.3%

548 installations of 4,107

Siham Ziyane

Network Admin in Information Technology at NEW PREFA BATIMENT (201-500 employees employees)

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Our company has been using Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches for enhanced network connectivity and it has been amazing. Our critical applications run efficiently and we're able to handle data intensive workloads. What makes this Cisco switches a big deal for our business is the ease of programing, low latency, and high port density. In addition, scaling is easy and we have better network monitoring.

Pros

Easy to program.
Comes with great network monitoring.
High port density.
Low latency.
Scaling is always easy.

Cons

Somewhat expensive.
Steep learning curve.

Return on Investment

Ability to scale when need be comes as a plus.
It is effortlessly programmable thus easy to meet our needs.
It ensures better visibility and monitoring.

Usability

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Ruben Guasch

IT Admin in Human Resources at ACCÉS Group® (51-200 employees employees)

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With Cisco Nexus Series Switches, we enjoy high-performance and amazingly low-latency with our high-performance computing needs. In addition, the automation capabilities, ease of programming, and high speeds up-to 100G makes it ideal for our business. In addition, the reliability and security features that comes with these switches makes a better fit for business use.

Pros

Low Latency.
High speed connection.
Supports automation and is easily programmable.
Comes with advanced security features.
Supports cloud integration.

Cons

NX-API command flaws

Return on Investment

Ability to program means we ca configure to our business needs.
Cloud integration comes as a plus.
Comes with great security features.

Usability

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Asana, Microsoft Teams

Ababacar Diagne

IT Manager in Information Technology at Electronic Corp (201-500 employees employees)

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We have used them to boost performance and automation in our data centers. The switches make it easy to scale when we have demanding workloads, and thanks to ease of programming and flexibility, we enjoy high performance throughout. In addition, Cisco Nexus Series Switches ensure high data processing speeds, and moving data is easy too.

Pros

High performance guaranteed.
Robust security.
Effortless programming.
Improves visibility and analytics.
Deep buffers.

Cons

Needs fluid cooling for better heat management.
Needs more automation capabilities.

Return on Investment

A boost in a performance is a plus.
We enjoy enhanced security.
Scaling is always easy.

Usability

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Chourouk Debiche

CMO Chief Marketing Officer in Marketing at Global Engineering Energy Construction GEEC (11-50 employees employees)

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Cisco Nexus Series Switches is an advanced data center networking software. Introduction of the software in our organisation has played a crucial role in enhancing both performance and sustainability. The software is designed for all sizes of enterprises and provides future proof networking infrustructure. It has very programmable tools and APIs that ensure robust and scalable network foundation.

Pros

The software ensures optimised performance and promotes data centre operations savings us both cost and time.
It is very customisable and allows full stack programmability.
Software usability and ease in integration with third parties.

Cons

The software is not user-friendly. Alot of training us required for new users.
Software customer services providers are very unreliable. They take so much time to respond to queries.
The product has input power issues.

Return on Investment

Use of the software in our organisation has provided us with very stable network thus eliminating our systems downtimes.
The product has enabled us to easily identify loops in the network.
It has helped us in managing our network infrastructure easily and provided us with a stable bandwidth.

Usability

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JayaKumar Vajjhala View profile

Manager, Network in Information Technology at Accenture (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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we use to connect majorly in our data center to connect our LAN , WAN and Branch offices . we use Cisco Nexus Series Switches 9k products heavily and focused to expand . we have been using since Nexus 7k , 5k and 2k and all the way to 9k. we Development phase for Nexus dashboards

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realability

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Very Highly since its robust

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