3Com Baseline Switches (Discontinued) vs. Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series Switches

As our company is growing we need to be able to upgrade our equipment. It is great for smaller companies.

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Amazing network management and extremely perfect network security production and its notification options are very responsive. Creating real time analytics and the visualization capability is fantastic. This Cisco Catalyst platform has effective insights gathering tools and its data quality control functions are good and quick on process reports preparation and workflow easy management product.

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• Great product used on a budget.
• It gets the job done.
• Better switches than most competitors.

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• It runs no matter how hot it gets. It's actually operated at times when it was exceeding its operational limits and continued to work.

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• Our network is slow.
• Feels like things are not working properly at times.
• Old equipment.

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• The portdensity is poor (when compared to competition) which means that the IE-switches takes more space then competition.
• The price is not competitive, only possible to ship/sell to customers that are set on the Brand. To say that Cisco has more features (to motivate that these units cost more then the double) is not correct, the competition solves the same stuff differently.

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The features are excellent. We have been able to utilize and customize the features

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The support team cares about fast workflow. They have been helpful

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I used Cisco and Cisco is a great product but more on the expensive side. This is a great product for smaller companies.

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Originally, used rack mount routers with ACLs. However, cost in terms of energy and rack space made doing NAT that way was very expensive.

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• Great price.
• Great product for small company.
• It was great before we expanded.

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• Before implementing these switches, production lines were constantly stopped due to network failures. This had a huge financial impact on the company.
• In addition to mitigating those flaws, you now have complete network monitoring with the joint implementation of the Cisco Industrial Network Director.

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