Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches vs Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Pros

Access switches
Colapse Core switch
Many redundancy functions, depending on the model, there are stacks, VSS, even working separately provide L3 redundancy with HSRP for example

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Bryan Valverde Piedra

Network Engineer

EmersonElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees

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It supports programmability
It supports 10, 40, 100 Gig interfaces
It can be used as fusion router in the SDA deployment

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

More comprehensive statistics and debuging tools in the IGMP and IGMP snooping area.
Better ways to apply logging filters (messages you want to ommit being logged in the system) - based on regex.

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CIO (Chief Information Officer)

UltraNET LtdInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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9500-32C is not supported in the DNA
There are some bugs on the stackwise virtual stacking uses. The stacks get splitted and manual reboot is required to fix it

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches 9.1

Based on 3 answers

Because they work well at what they do. They are highly innovative with their hub and spoke firmware deployment. Once again Cisco was extremely stupid to stop R and D on them.

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Sr. System Engineer

Kent Intermediate School DistrictEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Based on the site load and requirements, the switches meets our processing and fiber ports requirements. Also they have great potential for future programmability options we are looking into.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches 8.6

Based on 2 answers

Cisco Catalyst switches are the standard for usability. The Cisco command line is 1 of 2 formats for a command line interface in the computer networking industry. They literally define the standard for the industry, so naturally the usability is going to be high -- simply because that's what everyone uses. I rated them as 9 because they have some consistency issues within the IOS for different versions/platforms.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches 9.0

Based on 1 answer

It has great potential. It can support 10, 40, 100 Gig ports. The chipset are high processing capabilities

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches 8.7

Based on 2 answers

They are easy to get a hold of and are very effective.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Cisco TAC engineers are very responsive and supportive.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

When 9500 switches were introduced, it gave us more processing power, more reliability and more features than Cisco Catalyst 6800. It's even ready for DNA implementation.

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IT Network Manager

WadiDeglaSports, 1001-5000 employees

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Cisco has a large portfolio and variety of products, especially with switches and routers. Although Cisco has been a leader for this hardware for several years these kinds of things give the customer trust. Cisco has done a good job versus competitor. Cisco's switches are very reliable and stable. Competitors don’t have the same products.

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Gerente de ingeniería

Cuatro networksComputer Hardware, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Able to quickly deploy these as we use them throughout our entire infrastructure.
Saves us time from learning other vendors switching products as we already know how Cisco products operate.

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Network Manager

SUNY OswegoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Help me with the network connectivity between areas.
Enhances the connection speeds between the user and each other.
Enhances the connection speeds between users and DC.

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Network Manager

Wadi Degla HoldingSports, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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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

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