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Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switches are well suited for data closets in today’s ever expanding network system requirements. Today’s businesses rely on stable, fast, and highly available data connectivity. Businesses perform at such a quick pace now and the need to consume data resources is an integral part of most every business function. There can no longer be outages. Slow data connectivity and sluggish system response is directly related to business success. The Cisco Catalyst platform has provided our company with a network foundation that is fast and reliable so that the business can concentrate on what they do best.Incentivized
I love this switch for access and aggregate, especially due to the lack of needing reboots. [Other systems require this] reliable and stable platform.
The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switches provide reliable connectivity for multiple client device types whether computers, phones, wireless access points, etc.The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switches has deployment flexibility from traditional IOS-XE deployments to Cisco Catalyst SD-Access and now Meraki monitored solutions.Multiple switch models allow us to customize each data closet deployment to exactly fit the port density and power-over-Ethernet requirements.Incentivized
They are relatively easy to configure and to maintain.They have all of the high-end configuration capabilities as Cisco switches.The switches have excellent performance and reliability.Incentivized
Software needs improvement, where features are added (Stack wise) or removed (GLBP) without solicitation from a wider audience or depreciation, respectivelySoftware bugs recently in basic features like AAAAbility to turn off all unused services or features to reduce the attack surfaceCisco CoPP functionality is not like it was on the Cat 6k platform - users cannot create custom policies for use at the control-plane interfaceIncentivized
Licensing for the 10GB ports is a bit pricey, but that was 5 years ago, so things may have changedThe CLI commands are slightly different than typical Cisco commandsTheir rack mounting was not the prettiest in the worldIncentivized
The Catalyst switches definitely have a more robust feature set than the Meraki switches but the Meraki switches are intended for a different use case than the Catalyst switches. We used Catalyst switches in our wiring closets because they fit in better with the topology and feature sets that we wanted to deploy.Incentivized
The switching holds up well against HP, Extreme, Juniper, et. al at the edge. Cost is also a huge factor, and played a part in the purchase. Not just for the switches themselves, but also optics can be purchased at a discount. Service delivery has been fantastic, and in 3 years I've not had to replace any of the brocade switches I've purchased.Incentivized
Don't need to buy services - lifetime warrantyStability - even 10 year old devices are still running and doing the jobSometimes lines of products are on the market for a very short time (eg. 6800 instant access) - it is hard to buy equipment to make the network bigger.Incentivized
Equipment just runsSometimes past EOL/EOSFirmwares just work