Cisco Catalyst Switches

Cisco Catalyst Switches

Cisco Catalyst Switches

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Catalyst Switches	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.	N/A

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Cisco Catalyst Switches

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	Cisco Catalyst Switches
Considered Both Products	Cisco Catalyst Switches Jeremy Shupick Network Administrator Sr. Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We chose Cisco Catalyst Switches because it works with all the mentioned technology and if you have an issue you can call one company and troubleshoot it end to end. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Cisco switches are preferred as they provide a prem-based solution to most of the required infra compared to others. Incentivized Helpful? Shankey Goyal senior network engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches The support that we receive from other vendor is bad compared to Cisco, its the main reason why we stick to Cisco as the downtime for business is more expensive than a cheaper product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches In our case these model of Catalysts work well within our already established Meraki infrastructure, meshing with our Meraki Dashboard! Prior to the acquisition of our Catalyst, we heard many good reviews from our vendor we work with as well as our own online research seeing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches After evaluating both vendor, we chose Cisco Catalyst Switches becuase of, 1-We need the Power stacking features and Aruba doest not support Power stacking. 2-MACSEC to protect senstive data Incentivized Helpful? José Leonardo Sivek Solution Architect Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Better features, managing and easy to work for. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Pretty much, we use Cisco switches, so we haven't really tested out anybody else. We do have some other routers from Juniper and stuff like that. The Juniper routers work pretty well. We do prefer the Cisco firewalls over the Juniper firewalls at this point. Incentivized Helpful? DR Dominic Romandi Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We certainly love the configuration consistency between the platforms now as IOS XE becomes a consistent backbone. The Cisco Catalyst Switches are like everything else and become a natural extension configuration and support wise of everything else. I personally do not have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Our organization chose Cisco Catalyst Switches because, in our opinion, Cisco Catalyst Switches are much easier to use than NEXUS and Meraki switches. In my experience, The NEXUS OS is confusing, and the Meraki is hard to troubleshoot. Incentivized Helpful? Tony Nguyen Hardware engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 capabilities with support for protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, and VLANs, enabling more complex and robust network topologies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches They are pretty much great because when it comes down to configuration in the IOS, it's much simpler in Cisco than these other ones. You got to do too much configuration. You do the same thing you can do with two commands, for example on the Cisco IOS. So yeah, I recommend more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches I required the need for Catalyst Switches and not routers Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Cisco Catalyst Switches have been more reliable than the Ruckus switches I have worked with in the past. The stacking is much more reliable. Issues have been able to be resolved much quicker. Additionally, support being provided has been out of this world. Overall I would rate … Incentivized Helpful? SA Sunday Adetona Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We chose Cisco Catalyst Switches because, in our opinion, Cisco Catalyst Switches stacked up really well Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We chose Cisco Catalyst Switches for our organization because, in our opinion, Cisco Catalyst Switches have better performance and manageability Incentivized Helpful? Jasmin Patel Manager, Network and Telecommunications Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Always used Cisco. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Much broader community for support. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Cisco Catalyst Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (674 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (37 ratings)
Usability	8.3 (39 ratings)
Availability	9.2 (13 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (13 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (37 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.9 (5 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.7 (12 ratings)
Configurability	8.9 (10 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.1 (9 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.8 (13 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.4 (34 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.9 (35 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Catalyst Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco I think the most suited ones will be of course, for example, a supermarket where you have more than 50 plus devices because there are like 48 ports in a switch. We can just use a lot of devices and connect them to it. A less use case will be, I think it depends at the end of the day how your topology looks like. If you have a very few devices, you shouldn't be going for these catalyst switches because they are of course much bigger, more processing power and all those things. If you have, again, it comes to topology. If you have the number of users who are using these switches is less than 15, it's less than 15, then you can just go for any other option and not use them. Incentivized AK Ashutosh Kahol Network Engineer Read full review
Pros	Cisco One of the things that it does well, it's not something major, but there's a light tracking feature that the 9300 comes with that you can turn on the light and that has become critical in a data center environment where you want to help someone to make sure that you're talking about the same switch, you can turn the light on and off something that is not available in other versions of Cisco switches before the 9300. So it's not as major, but it's quite critical when you're dealing with multiple systems and multiple switches. Incentivized TM Tinei Maiswa Network Specialist Read full review
Cons	Cisco Functionality. Well, one of the functions that we are missing is a faster route based on OSPF. Other than that, it could provide an upgrade without a hitless upgrade. Well, now it is a very fast upgrade, which is also okay. We had a case when the platform crashed, but that was a specific case. We were happy with this product. Incentivized ZM Ziga Maraz Network Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cisco They are consistently reliable and this switch in particular is a very affordable solution. We can place the Cisco Catalyst 1000 Series Switches gear in areas that we normally would not place a switch because it is affordable enough to make it justifiable. And because it is a reliable solution, we are confident it will continue to provide service over the long haul. Incentivized GB Garry Bowers Network System Administrator Read full review
Usability	Cisco Cisco by and far does a great job with the Catalyst line. From a layer 2 dumb switch all the way up to ISP carrier grade switching within the Catalyst portfolio. The best part about it is command parity among the various tiers of product. The only differences are going to lie in what features are available per switch. Incentivized Matthew Cable Network Engineer II Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Cisco As per our experience, the turn around time for switches after PO is raised varies from 1 - 3 months. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Cisco No, the packets flow. Sometimes you will see collisions and broadcast storms can happen which will slow performance but that can be fixed and the packets will flow. Incentivized HJ Hawkinson, John Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco We rarely have issues with the product. I have only had to contact support one time since we put it in and that was to see if another vendor was giving me accurate information on an issue I was having. Incentivized Ryhlen Schoeberl Systems Administrator II Read full review
In-Person Training	Cisco Cisco Networking Academy partners with many local Colleges and High Schools to provide great hands-on training. You do need to drive to learn the topic. The in-class session only go so far. You really need to apply this to the real world. Cisco makes it easy for business to connect via CLC or Cisco Learning Credits. Incentivized Justin McDermott Information Security Architect Read full review
Online Training	Cisco My own personal research to get the information I want is very handy and helped me many times Incentivized PM Paulo Mendoza Network Engineer Read full review
Implementation Rating	Cisco The implementation of the Cisco Catalyst 1000 Series Switches is fairly seamless, especially if you are familiar with Cisco products. We have had Brocade switch gear in place too, and the differences between the manufacturers [are] not a major issue. Incentivized GB Garry Bowers Network System Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco We do have other vendors. For example, Juniper, Fortinet, and there are quite a few others. And Cisco is pretty good because we know the workflow, we know how the operating system works. We are much more familiar with Cisco products and we know the support system behind it. So in terms of comparing with others, I think it stands out. It's one of our top products to go to Incentivized AS Ali Syed Network Engineer Read full review
Scalability	Cisco We are exclusive Cisco at our organization. In truth part of the reason is, with one type of switch and one manufacturer, it is easier to support. It is also easier to give consistent training to our staff in our tech department Incentivized GB Garry Bowers Network System Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco energy costs dropped by around 11 per cent on the access layer management has become easier with DNA Center ISSU software upgrades and fabric deployments have significantly reduced "planned" down times network speed has increased, latency is at an all-time best within our own LAN Incentivized Dr. Christian Attinger Senior Technical Specialist Read full review
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