Arista 7000 series vs Huawei Ethernet Switches

Likelihood to Recommend

Core and data center applications are the strengths of Arista products. The distribution layer is also a good fit. For the access layer, it would be more of a niche product.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Huawei switches are ideal for cases where performance is not essential, for low traffic solutions and for equipment management. It is not recommended for situations of high performance and stress, immediate availability and high scalability. It is also not advisable to use them in solutions that involve hardware from other brands, the integration of Huawei with Cisco, for example, is very traumatic and the results were not optimal in my case.

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Amilcar Jose Salazar Siry

Lider de proyectos

CANTVTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

The 7304's along side our core network design has provided 100% uptime during the 5 years of deployment.
The multi-chassis LAG has provided near 100% connectivity to the distribution and access switches.
Very low maintenance attention is needed.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability
High throughput links
Redundancy of links with resilient protocols
Fast switching in the event of a redundant link failure.

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Gilson Jose do Nascimento

Network Engineer

ALOO TELECOMTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Cons

The 7304's lack a graceful non-intrusive upgrade method even though they are dual supervisor.
I would like to see more integration with Aruba's ClearPass and Airwave products.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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One of our switches encounted a hardware defect after 6 months of use (but was replaced within warranty)
The switches appear to get hotter than what I would expect under normal use

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Dylan Eikelenboom

Security Officer

IXON CloudInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have used the Catalyst 6500 series in the past. From my point of view, the Arista surpasses the Catalyst on just about every front. Originally we were planning on implementing the Nexus 7000/7700 series switches for our core. Though a little more feature rich, it did not provide features we needed that the Arista did. The Nexus also was a confusing and complex platform to work with. Also, the Nexus was a significantly more expensive solution. Although very happy with the Arista switches we may evaluate the Aruba HPE 8400 chassis-based switches along with Arista switches in the future.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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The performance of Huawei is lower than Cisco, but initially the costs inclined the decision towards Huawei, but unfortunately, it was not, the licenses and the manager fired the investment to make it very similar to cisco. Therefore it is preferable to go to the Cisco switches for reliability and robustness.

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Amilcar Jose Salazar Siry

Lider de proyectos

CANTVTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

The Arista 7000 series met or exceed our data center switching and routing needs.
It provided a more cost effective alternative to other products we were considering.
Implementation was quick and easy due to the simple standards-based configuration.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Revenue Increase
Greater satisfaction for our customers.
Greater compliance with SLAs

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Gilson Jose do Nascimento

Network Engineer

ALOO TELECOMTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No