Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches

[Cisco Catalyst Series Switches can] enable time-saving automation to be put in place due, but you need to put in the time and effort to achieve this. It allows to scale, due to its stacking capability and saves rack space as it is only 1 RU in height.

Once you get past the sticker-shock of Cisco's higher than average pricing, you will find yourself with a highly dependable and easy to manage network switch. As your network grows, Cisco Catalyst Switches make it very easy to scale up and add more hardware. These switches are very secure and offer a plethora of extra features.

Even with the higher price point compared to other vendors, we highly recommend [Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches] to all of our clients. These switches are built to last. [They] make network management very easy and will benefit any business in the long run. Cisco stands behind its product. It is very easy to add additional switches as a network grows.

We use these switches for all of our small and medium-sized business clients. These switches make it very easy to manage a network via a single pane of glass. Once our techs are up to speed, they are able to make configuration changes very quickly with minimal effort. There is a bit of a high price point to entry, but you will save in the long run.

I recommend the catalyst line since for more than 10 years I never had any type of problem with this equipment, the hardware and software updates were always good for the business and the equipment evolved as time passed from the speed in the ports to the great variety of features that the software brings.

Still highly recommend this switch over others. Scalability makes these a great choice. Setup and ease of use make the switches something you can implement very quickly with little downtime. Despite the licensing portion, still highly recommend it.

The switch performance very well on many scenarios, is fast, reliable, and relatively easy to administrate, but its high price could be con for some organizations

Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches offer a wide selection of products for SOHO and enterprise. Layer-2 switches offer one-time configuration and in our experience, the hardware can stand for a long time.

Basically, anywhere you have a network to manage, Cisco will fit in and do very well. On the very large scale enterprises, they excel. For some very small installations, they used to be a bit difficult but they've evolved to address the less complex and sophisticated environments. Their support is expensive for small guys, so that's typically the major roadblock.

It works really well as a medium business core switch and router

Simplified CLI for the purposes of administration, and when set up correctly, you pretty much forget about it with minimal changes to VLANs and ACLs.

Easy to add additional switches to a stack as well as mixing of copper and SFP.

For the less appropriate installations, I would say that a smaller, less well funded organization would be hard pressed to justify the expense and possibly find it difficult to staff appropriately for deployment of Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches. Since the Cisco OS is so specialized and different from other vendors, a person with Cisco experience is required to properly configure. If the deployment does not require VLANs or segregation of data paths, using the switches in default mode will work, however there are less expensive options that will also provide connectivity.

Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches are well suited for a robust environment, whether it is a simple LAN with multiple VLANS or a complex WAN environment with a multitude of drops. Security and reliability continue to be a strong benefit in this type of deployment.