Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches vs Huawei Ethernet Switches

Likelihood to Recommend

It's easy to start using Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches and even to provide an effective and secure network even the distribution of networks across the company through Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches are amazing. The network performance is nice and it allows easy data monitoring and data sharing through secure data environment created through Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches functionalities and the reports are very clear.

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Diana Alvarado

Web Developer

Brander Group Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 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

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

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Miguel Maldonado

Presales

CiberCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 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

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

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Mercedes Albuja

ventas

segurosLogistics and Supply Chain, 51-200 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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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

Starting Price

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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

Starting Price

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Alternatives Considered

The 9200 switches are a great switch for reliability and processing. We use our 9200's for Layer 2 only switching, as well as use some 9200's in routing cases as well. The 9200's is a model number we use as our primary model number for upgrading our other switches like the 2960's and 3850's.

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Thomas Osborne

Network System Administrator

CentralSquare TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 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

We use NFR so not really an impact. Being a Cisco shop we dont have any serious problems with ROI
Customers love Cisco Catalyst switches as they perform great and capable of all fulfilling all customer needs. A single switch can perform as router/switch/poe/trunks/multicast (For overhead paging. school bell system etc.)
With frequent IOS upgrades always ready to support day 1/ 0 day equipment. ROI impact is very positive.

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Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 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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Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches vs Huawei Ethernet Switches