Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.
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HPE Aruba Networking Switches
Score 8.5 out of 10
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For campus, branch, and data centers, HPE's Aruba CX switches are presented as a flexible, programmable, and cloud-native ASIC design solution, boasting the power, precision, and versatility of a microservices-based wired architecture.
$503.63
one-time fee
Pricing
Cisco Catalyst Switches
HPE Aruba Networking Switches
Editions & Modules
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HPE Aruba Networking CX 6000 Switch Series
Starting at $503.63
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 6100 Switch Series
Starting at $935.20
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 6200 Switch Series
Starting at $1,054.12
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series
Starting at $4,483.55
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 5420 Switch Series
Starting at $3,158.76
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking 2930F Switch Series
Starting at $574.72
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 6400 Switch Series
Starting at $7,394.82
one-time fee
HPE Aruba Networking CX 8100 Switch Series
Starting at $19,102.26
one-time fee
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Pricing Offerings
Cisco Catalyst Switches
HPE Aruba Networking Switches
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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HPE Aruba Ethernet Switch prices vary significantly based on features, model, and quantity purchased.
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
We are predominantly a Cisco house for networking, so the risk raised by introducing the split switching was too high. We also found there are more Cisco engineers available than Aruba/HPE switching engineers. The lifetime warranty from HPE was a major factor in considering the …
Cisco Catalyst switches are a better and more consistent product. Published design guides, multivendor SFP support and configuration consistency with other Cisco products in fleet make them better for the org.
Cisco is still easy enough to configure, with options in both console as well as web to get set up and deploy. Experience is almost always the same, unless some commands have been updated or added to the OS, but it's still always consist which is great.
The equipments that we use to compare are very similar in a question of compatibility and speed. The Cisco Catalyst Switches was the standard for the years in the company and the robusts of the equipment brings the advantage to this family of products that we decided to use to …
We selected Cisco Catalyst Switches over the HPE Aruba switches due to the end-to-end solution that Cisco has been building and improving upon over the last 5+ years. We can now utilize the same security tagging and posturing from our access layer all the way up through our …
I believe Cisco is a market leader with a strong reputation for delivering reliable networking solutions. The Catalyst series is widely adopted in enterprise settings. Cisco also provides a global network of certified partners and offers comprehensive support and services, …
The Cisco Calalyst has a realiable solution over the concurrent. It has more integration and professionals trained to support and implement the solutions. Once we decided to Cisco our tech team was trained quickly. So we had to many positive impact to our business including the …
Cisco Catalyst Switches primarily stack up against these other brands by their feature-rich configuration, high bandwidth processing, customization, access control, and scalability. Some of the major reasons are the support for Cisco Catalyst Switches and how quick it is. …
The Catalyst line is far more feature rich than Aruba or Meraki. The main question will be if any of those additional features provide value to the organization. There are plenty of environments where the ease of use that Meraki has far outweighed the expanded feature set of …
The HPE Aruba Switches are definitely easier to setup than Cisco Catalyst Switches. We prefer to have a managed interface, so the HPE Aruba Switches are a better option than most Netgear or D-Link switches. Compared to HPE Networking Switches, the Aruba models typically are …
HPE switches are much more cost-effective than Cisco and others with a much more gentle learning curve. Aruba switches can be implemented by users with very little networking experience.
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.
These devices are rock solid, you will se them up once and not have to mess with them for years. They are work horses that don't die. We use them in an office environment and have only ever had 1 fail due to a PSU issue, we got a replacement next day and it's been working great.
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.
Wireless Access Points (APs) zero touch provisioning
Its high-end family (running the AOS-CX firmware) supports a virtualization technology called VSX (Virtual Switching Extension) which allows 2 switches to present itself as one virtualized switch under Layer 2, and as 2 separate routers under Layer 3; thereby providing high availability.
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.
I have had issues finding monitoring software that natively supports Provision/Aruba OS. Most are designed primarily with Cisco in mind.
HPE/Aruba switches have historically had issues with corrupt flash. This seems to be less common in more recent models.
HPE/Aruba's switching portfolio can be confusing. Some models run on the Aruba OS while some others run on Comware. There is some overlap in these model lines so at times is can be tough to tell which switch is right.
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.
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.
I have not had that many issues with these products. Aruba Central has been really helpful. The Integration Capabilities allows us to use Clearpass . For individuals new to enterprise-grade networking, there can still be a learning curve associated with understanding the concepts and the specifics of the Aruba configuration.
We have very few is any outages due to a Cisco hardware failure. Some of our gear is exposed to some pretty harsh environments, and they keep on ticking!
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.
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.
HPE Support is very easy to reach. A knowledgable rep can be reached in a few minutes. After some basic troubleshooting if the failure is due to hardware I can receive a replacement within a day or even in a few hours.
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.
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.
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
We used to have a lot of Cisco switches which are great, but the support contracts and other expenses mount up quickly; one of the main reasons for switching to HP for networking was the cost, but the hardware and software have gotten so much better over the years.
I can’t see us changing network hardware unless the price increases dramatically.
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
I really like the idea of paying for the switches one time and just pay for support going forward. The prices are on the high end but I think it is worth it. I wish they would include all the features in one go so we would not have to pay for every new feature.
