Cisco Catalyst Switches vs Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches

• Stability and Reliability - We have not had many failures over the past years using Cisco Catalyst switches.
• Flexibility - Cisco Catalyst switches offers a wide portfolio of switching equipment which can address a variety of needs. This includes switches with stacking and non-stacking capability, fixed rackmount and chassis options which can be mounted in data centre racks and and also compact switching which may be more feasible for small SOHO offices.
• Scalable Performance - Cisco Catalyst switches offers various port speeds from 1Gbps 10Gbps, 100Gbps etc. This is available in both copper (RJ45) and fibre (SFP). Many models also offer a variety of uplink speed options which future proofs the invest in Cisco technologies allowing us to upgrade depending on our changing business requirements and available budgets.

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• In general Cisco Catalyst Switches are a nice piece of kit both in hardware and software.
• You can keep these guys running for years without nary a reboot necessary.
• Even if you have to reboot you have multiple fail overs and redundancies.

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• Would like to see a second power supply so it can get power from two different sources.
• Hard to find a USB flash drive that will work when loading images for upgrade.
• IOS upgrades are a pain to perform. Upgrades should be an easy process. Would like to perform the upgrade through a web browser.

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• There are some known bugs that cause interface errors and are listed as "cosmetic" and they do not plan to address them. This makes troubleshooting very difficult to determine what are real errors and what are cosmetic.
• We have had a few batches that get stuck in random reboots.
• Cisco foolishly has discontinued R&D for this line of Catalyst when they were finally showing some innovation that set them apart from other vendors.

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• Cisco catalyst switches have allowed our networks to run smoothly with no interruptions.
• These switches are scalable so we were able to add more switches as needed, without interrupting the network activity.
• Automation techniques allowed us to deploy configuration with minimum effort.

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• It's all about making the right choice in the right time. Let's face it - CISCO Catalyst switches are not cheap. But if you take the time to research and design your network the ROI rate will be faster than you imagine. Having a stable and scalable network is the most important aspect of Catayst - upgrading the core and backbone infrastructure allows you to push the older devices to the outer edges of the network or to new, under/undeveloped regions.

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