Cisco Nexus Insights

What is Cisco Nexus?

Cisco Nexus is a family of data center switches designed for high performance, scalability, and programmability. They are commonly used in modern data centers to support virtualization, cloud computing, and big data applications, providing a robust and flexible network infrastructure.

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What other technologies are related to Cisco Nexus?

Cisco Nexus Competitor Technologies

Cisco Catalyst

Cisco Catalyst switches are primarily for access and distribution layers, while Nexus is for data center. Thus they are competitors in some deployments, but not all. They are different lines of switches with partially overlapping capabilities and use cases.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 20% (670) of relevant job posts

Catalyst switches

Catalyst switches are generally for campus networks, while Nexus are for data center. They are competing product lines.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 28% (211) of relevant job posts

Catalyst

Catalyst switches and Nexus switches are distinct lines of Cisco switches that compete. Catalyst targets general networking, while Nexus is tailored for the datacenter.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 7% (492) of relevant job posts

Catalyst series switches

Catalyst switches target general networking while Nexus is tailored for the datacenter. They are competing product lines.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 48% (59) of relevant job posts

Juniper MX

Juniper MX series routers can be used in data centers and service provider networks. These routers can sometimes be used in the same deployments that may use Nexus switches.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 19% (90) of relevant job posts

Cisco Nexus Complementary Technologies

Cisco ACI

Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) is a data center SDN solution often used in conjunction with Cisco Nexus switches for network automation and management.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 9% (908) of relevant job posts

BGP

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is a routing protocol used for inter-domain routing, often used with Nexus switches in data centers and service provider networks for routing traffic between different autonomous systems.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 3% (2.5k) of relevant job posts

OSPF

OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is an interior gateway routing protocol commonly used within a single autonomous system. Nexus switches support OSPF for routing within the data center.

mentioned alongside Cisco Nexus in 3% (2.2k) of relevant job posts