Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

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Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Cisco offers the Catalyst 9500 series of campus LAN switches.	N/A

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	Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches
Considered Both Products	Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches are used as Access Switches for the Campus Environment which is connected to the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches. It is easy to deploy and stacked to support additional ports required. Incentivized Helpful? GV Giorgio Vezzaro Pre sales IT systems engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Price per value is really better in Cisco product Incentivized Helpful? Paulo Thame Information Security Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches The Catalyst stack allows us to connect 8 switches, to be managed from one IP, it simplifies everything, before we need to connect on each switch, losing much time to know where is the problem, now, in 1 connection, we can inspect 8 devices in a single connection. We use 2960 … Incentivized Helpful? AL Arthur Logan Information Technology Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches We have no previous experience with any of the Catalyst switches. Later on, we found it necessary, and we had experience with Cisco and had found it a very trustable company, so we decided to go for the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches. They met our expectations and we are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches We are a Cisco house and implementing Cisco Catalyst made sense price-wise and unification-wise. It met our requirements. Incentivized Helpful? GH Girgis Hady IT Network Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches We actually replaced our old core switch Cisco Catalyst 6800 series switch with the Cisco Catalyst 9500 series switches, for the enhancement performance, DNA-ready for future era, and the upgraded throughput and to reduce the cost of power consumption and cooling. Even the cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches While we were evaluating new options for our core distribution, we looked at various other vendors. The selection process included Meraki and other well known contenders. We are happily migrating our wireless systems over to Meraki, but we felt the options for core switching … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches We have been using 6500 and 4200 which were replaced by 9500 and what I personally liked there is no multiple blades combination and no supervisor deals as there were to many dependencies on them. I also recommend Cisco nexuses as they also give good performance mainly in data … Incentivized Helpful? Bill Holmberg IT Director Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches have run with zero issues, and you never a need to reboot them, which has been vital to us during complex server management projects and migrations. Other vendors' products generally lack in one of these areas. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches The Catalyst 9400 was not out when we were looking at new core switches. We thought about using a Nexus 9k but neither were as good of a fit as the 9500. Between price and performance it was a no-brainer for us to look at the 9500. We have not nor in the future would we … Helpful? Idan Malei Cyber Security Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Love Cisco products Incentivized Helpful? FL Franck Labbe Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches To replace 6500 Incentivized Helpful? OR Orlando Rosas Gerente de ingeniería Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches La solución de stack deberia mejorar en términos de estabilidad. Seleccione Cisco Catalyst Switches porque es la solucion de cisco que mas he trabajado // The stack solution should improve in terms of stability. I selected Cisco Catalyst Switches because it is the Cisco … Incentivized Helpful? girgis hady Network Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches cisco is popular than arsita,also cisco support is better Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches I have used H3C 7500 and H3C 5800 at the distribution and core layer of the network. Also from Cisco product family, CAT 4500 and 6500 series switches. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Since our organization is a fully fledged Cisco house, it made sense to stick to a product that we had the capabilities to install, manage and maintain. We initially had considered Cisco vs the Nexus series, however, due to price and fit for purpose the Nexus series overall was … Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro High speed Pro Ease of configuration Pro End security
Top Cons	Minus Flexible pricing Minus Much cheaper Minus Data driven

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Medium-sized Companies	Extreme Networks Wired Access - Switches Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Nexus Series Switches Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	1.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco The [Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches] is very well suited for datacenter core and distribution models, they work very well as a replacement for the 3850 switches that many smaller organizations use for core switching. The Catalyst 9500 series switches also works very well as a top of rack aggregation switch for SFP and QSFP connectivity. Incentivized DA Daniel Aldridge Network Administrator Read full review
Pros	Cisco Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches are capable of 10g/40g with a great selection of ports for these speeds. The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switch is a very capable piece of kit, supporting a lot of Cisco's new feature sets. Cisco IOS is the gold standard for switch operating systems. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cisco Well the ACI, so the AP, the controller give us good chances to run everything, to configure everything. But the monitoring itself, it's not that easy. You need other products like Nexus dashboard or something else to do the monitoring. This is a little bit of a con. It's another technology so everyone has to think a little bit of others to adapt this knowledge and it takes two years I think for a technician to understand what ACI is really doing and what we can do with it. Incentivized LJ Luis Jimenez Manager of Telephone Department Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cisco 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Cisco It has great potential. It can support 10, 40, 100 Gig ports. The chipset are high processing capabilities Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco Cisco TAC engineers are very responsive and supportive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco The Catalyst 9400 was not out when we were looking at new core switches. We thought about using a Nexus 9k but neither were as good of a fit as the 9500. Between price and performance it was a no-brainer for us to look at the 9500. We have not nor in the future would we consider other brands for core switching. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco These switches did require a purchase of the DNA license on top of standard switch licensing, even if the functions are no needed in the environment. The increased SFP & QSFP connectivity enabled for faster processing within our compute environment. While the system is too new to quantify the value added in this, it undeniably will help with its ROI. Incentivized DA Daniel Aldridge Network Administrator Read full review
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