Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow vs. Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches

The main "power" of Rainbow is the hybrid model, to mix traditional telephony and the new way of communicating
Rainbow is used in our company by "mobile" people who need to communicate easily with fixed telephones. For an emergency in a subway station, communications are very important and Rainbow provides everything we need for such communications.

The Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches are a good fit for access layer needs. Put them on the edge of your network and you will have what you need to connect a physical device to your network. I would not deploy them in places at the core of a network. They can be used in data centers as an edge connection device.

Incentivized

• Hybrid communications
• Easy to use
• In permanent evolution
• Not expensive

• high forwarding // high forwarding
• posee la capacidad de convertirse tambien en un WLC // Has the ability to become a WLC as well
• posee puertos UPOE que pueden ser usados para varios dispositivos finales. // It has UPOE ports that can be used for multiple end user devices
• capacidad de expansion con modulos adicionales // The ability to scale up/expand using additional modules

Incentivized

• Improve the "bubbles"
• Add more "traditional" phone features
• Improve the conference experiences

• Que los precios sean mejorados para ser mas competitivos // More competitive prices/cost
• Generar mas marketing y promocion de los nuevos equipos // Create more marketing and promotional features about new equipment
• Liberar de licencias obligatorias en los equipos // Release obligatory licenses for businesses

Incentivized

We have now bought 468 switches, and we will most likely continue using this series, because it is the switch that is the cheapest for our needs. Maybe for some specific use cases, we will use the Catalyst 9300 series. Because we are more pressed on manpower, that money, we stick with what works.

Incentivized

These are very handy switches as they are easy to deploy / use and fulfill all needs related to access layer switches.

Incentivized

Haven't had an issue with these switches yet.

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Accessing resources is very fast. We were able to deploy computer images in half the time it would take with our old hardware.

Incentivized

Not Applicable

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Very easy to port configurations and deploy.

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Teams have better collaboration features than Rainbow, but for companies like the one I worked for, hybrid communication is essential and Teams can't provide all the phone features we need to work.
Rainbow does a good job for the people who work for our company

The functions on Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches are very responsive and its notification functions are very active and reliable in producing effective new updates on any detected data threats across the entire network flow even the network speed reports are easily presented by its alert functionalities and data analytics are impressive.

Incentivized

I was able to deploy the switches to 10 Labs in less than a week by myself.

Incentivized

• Gain of time
• Gain of money

• The positive thing is that because it has a redundant power supply, you can have users staying on for all the time. If you have a power interruption or something and you have both power supply A and B, then you're option to, you don't need users to log off or they're being cut off because you have to replace something or do something.

Incentivized