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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ACisco C9350 Series Smart Switches network architecture with a new generation of stackable fixed access switches that deliver security, scale, and flexibility purpose-built for an AI enterprise.N/A

    Darktrace

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADarktrace AI interrupts in-progress cyber-attacks, including ransomware, email phishing, and threats to cloud environments. It's able to detect and establish baselines for your organization so it can make the distinction between what is and what isn't normal network activity for your organization. This allows it to tackle complex cyber-attacks as they happen and prevent future cyber-attacks from happening.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Darktrace
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Ethernet Switches
    Comparison of Ethernet Switches features of Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches and Darktrace
    Feature
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches
    7.9
    19 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Darktrace
    -
    Ratings
    Management Interface7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality of Service (QoS)8.114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Switch Scalability8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Switch Redundancy7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Aggregation (LACP)8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    RUCKUS Ethernet Switches
    Score1 out of 10
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Ethernet Switches
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (19 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco C9350 Series Smart SwitchesDarktrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches to a colleague because, in my experience, this Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches product Is well suited for mission critical enterprise network and software defined network
    Incentivized
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    Darktrace
    Darktrace is a product well suited for the vast majority of infrastructures and helps monitoring and responding to threats based on the network in a very elastic way. This is a product based on on-premise infrastructures that hosts its machines locally, of course it can be technically difficult to monitor an entire On-Cloud infrastructure but even there there's room for sensors and monitoring, not to mention the SaaS and mail integration that completes the product.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Inter-VLAN routing
    • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) helper
    • radius authentication
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    Darktrace
    • Uses it Al model UEBA to detect anomalies in the behaviour of not only the users in a corporate network but also the routers, servers, and endpoints in that network.
    • Provides a visualisation of both egress and outbound network traffics flowing in and out of the organisation.
    • Darktrace comes with it autonomous AI model detection and responses capabilities.
    • Darktrace as an AI next generation NDR solution, prevents ,contains and quarantines malicious traffics from and into the corporate network.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches is expensive compared to other solutions that dont rely on the higher bandwidth capabilies
    • Requirement bandwidth of the 9350 may lead to degradation in throughput
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    Darktrace
    • There are few areas that I would say need to be improved; their customer support portal allows you to log tickets with any suggestions or things you feel the product is missing, and they will generally show you how to achieve what you want, or in some cases, introduce it as a feature in a later update.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    Darktrace
    It's a powerfull product that help administrators to provide email security to our organization.
    Good metrics about received emails that help us to determine in doubt case if the email is a false positive or it's malware.
    They're improving the product releasing continuous updates and have mobile phone app to manage it.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    I gave Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches this usability rating because, in my experience, Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches are an Awesome product for 2.5G Base-T industry adoption and flexibility for higher count ports.
    Incentivized
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    Darktrace
    The Darktrace toolset is very expansive, allowing it to handle many different tasks, but this leads to a user interface that is sometimes not at all intuitive. Icons don't always make sense visually, and the associated tool tips do not always provide enough detail on what action the button performs
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Darktrace
    Darktrace support is excellent in my experience. They send a competent engineer on-site to provide on-boarding training. They were also very responsive in responding to questions and concerns. Having an individual point of contact who is a competent network and security engineer is not a common experience, at least for me.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    The Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches brings he expected Cisco polish with better stacking and power features.
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    Darktrace
    We did NOT select Darktrace. OSSIM/AlienVault is a more mature product and it provided better intelligence and reporting. The end user interface is much easier to use - and you can tell built form engineers who have had to do the work. My suggestion for anyone considering Darktrace, is to get the price upfront; do a 30/60 onsite trail; and do the same thing, at the same time, with AlienVault. AlientVault will win every time. I say that because that's exactly what I did.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The impact Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches have on our organization's overall business objectives is that they are very fast
    • Another impact Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches have on our overall business objectives is that we are happy to purchase them
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    Darktrace
    • One big positive is how it helps us with the security assessments that clients have done on us. They are looking to see if we know how we might have unusual/malicious traffic running on the network.
    • If you have a small network and only need 1 appliance, it can be a good ROI and peace of mind.
    • You could go down a hole in trying to spend time looking at all of your traffic with this software. You need to focus only on what it is showing as potential bad traffic.
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