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Cisco Catalyst Switches

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What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?

Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.

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Catalyst Switch Review

10 out of 10
February 09, 2024
Incentivized
So in our organization, Catalyst Switches is what everything is connected to get on the internet. So in our organization for ourselves we …
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Product Details

What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?

The Cisco Catalyst family of switches includes enterprise LAN access, distribution, and core switches. The vendor says the switches are designed for an entirely new era of intent-based networking, deliver stellar performance and functionality, and prepares a network for the future with breakthrough innovations for security, mobility, IoT, and the cloud.

Cisco Catalyst switches offer advanced security capabilities, scale for IoT, and cloud readiness.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.

HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches, Huawei Ethernet Switches, and Juniper EX Series Switches are common alternatives for Cisco Catalyst Switches.

Reviewers rate Configurability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Cisco Catalyst Switches are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco Catalyst Switches are well suited in access- distribution and core-Layer network to us. In access-layser, we connect endpoints like user computers, printer, desk phones and wireless access points to it. there is also a PoE capacity which powers up desk phones or wireless access points via the LAN network cable. We don't use Catalyst Switches in data center enviroment as we need low latency solutions in there.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited:
1) high performance networking scenarios for office areas
2) high performance networking scenarios for manufacturing areas
3) dot1x integration with ISE

Less appropriate:
1) less challenging networking scenarios for office areas
2) pure internet exit networks in small offices or areas
3) SDN scenarios where no routed access layer is present
February 09, 2024

Catalyst Switch Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
So in every scenario where you have to take one port and create, make it so that you can have more devices connected. So there will be like in a normal office area where you have an internet connection and you have to have 40 or 20 clients connected. That's where definitely Catalyst Switches becomes a very important part of this. The whole thing, scenarios where it's not very usable, I can't really see a scenario where you wouldn't be needing a switch to. There would be a very unlikely scenario because mostly you would need to connect more than one device to a router or something like that. So you would need to have a switch scenario I would say. Then it would be in some sort of scenario where you only had a need to have a directly connection to a router or something else where you wouldn't need to have more ports. So like a peer to peer connection or something like that. But I can't really see any other scenario where wouldn't you wouldn't be needing a switch.
February 06, 2024

Most flexible

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Scenarios - all - have just completed a DMZ swap from old CAt3k/6k to 9k - now I am going to use 9600 and loads of 9300 for Campus renewal.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Well suited for enterprise and medium size customers, less appropriate for price sensitive customers. A negative point is the whole theme about licensing and smart account registration. The whole process of the online licensing is a mess. The opportunity to use catalyst for switching and routing, also for complex routing protocols as IS-IS, OSPF,BGP make them ideal for a fabric enabled network.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco Catalyst Switches are well suited for the classical Cisco infrastructure model: core, distribution, access. This is a standard for us for all sites, datacenters or remote sites. I would tell that in our industrial model, there is no unappropriate situation where we do not deploy Cisco Catalyst switchs.
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