For that one. It just fit our needs for the hospital, for the chassis that we do. So we usually use stack switches or the chassis. So this one here, anything above three stack switches, we always go with the chassis. So the fact that we make every port active in a hospital, …
Well, basically just an upgrade from older models that we've had in place and our rep recommended that, so we started using it and we're pretty satisfied with it.
I've used the Cisco Meraki style switches a few times and some other switches and the older type of switches from Cisco. So the Meraki are more user-friendly for their web face GUI that they have. But just normal day-to-day switching raw power, I would go with the 9,300, the …
I haven't evaluated many, but I have used also the older versions of the Cisco Catalyst Switches, like the eight thousand, and the seven thousand before. I believe that it has more features and more scalability.
My organization has always been a Cisco shop and leans toward that product line. There is nothing today from a feature set perspective that would force us to change.
I think we kind of took a glance at Aruba. Costwise, it's better, but functionality we prefer Cisco. And then we have a handful of ComNet type switches, but that's more for IOT or industrial.
Pretty much every single Cisco product before and after 3829 grids. Almost every single router model Cisco has. We used them before. I think the 9000 series is an improved version of the 3800 series. And the stackable model is an improved version of 4500, which is well known …
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 …
They came recommended to us by our partners due to the type of work we do due to the amount of business critical workloads are relying on a consistent and reliable connection.
The monitoring of Cisco devices is easy and have various monitoring tools available. The products offered for the Cisco Catalyst Switches work well hand in hand.