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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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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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Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.
HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches, Huawei Ethernet Switches, and Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches are common alternatives for Cisco Catalyst Switches.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Cisco Catalyst Switches are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Unknown industry.
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July 14, 2022
Cisco Catalyst Switches are straightforward
- Our uptime is over 99%
- Redundancy is easy
July 13, 2022
Catalyst switches review
- Staff learning curve
- Excellent tech support
- Have had them for years with no issues.
July 13, 2022
Catalyst can do better!
- Maintenance is getting expensive and surpassing the amount of budget
- TAC support is not up par with the need
July 13, 2022
Cisco knows how to keep you connected
- Long lasting
- Take abuse
- Ease of configuration
July 13, 2022
Catalyst rules, but please kill the 4500
- You have to ask the blue collars
July 13, 2022
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Only positive impact, especially StackWise devices.
July 12, 2022
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Maintenance contract cost
June 22, 2022
A lifelong piece of hardware - Cisco Catalyst!
- Positive effect in uptime and reliability
- Long lasting
- Achieving complex access requirements
June 21, 2022
Cisco Catalyst 9x00 fast review
- Return on Investment or ROI - Cisco is providing with excellent aftersales support.
- They have provided reliable network connectivity for our school district and its 6000 students and 1000 staff.
- They TBF is very low, allowing us to concentrate on management and not on RMAs.
- They support most legacy and new devices so we don’t have to think about spending more on new devices or replacing old but operational ones.
- Management is not too complex so not much training is required to support them.
June 18, 2022
Long time Cisco use
- Scaling
- Longevity
- Staff already trained to support
June 17, 2022
Catalyst 9300 - Network Edge Redefined
- Reduction of issues and man hours dedicated to troubleshooting
- Advanced L3 features have allowed us to remove traditional routers in many instances and shrink our footprints and power consumption
June 17, 2022
Cisco 9k do the job
- sometimes the ports burn out do to electric surges
- i wish we had more module options
- Reduced costs
- Reliability
- Security
June 16, 2022
One of the best swiches lines
- Great availability
- Easy manageable
June 16, 2022
The workhorse in a network environment
- Used/refurbished 2960 switches are amazing from a ROI standpoint
June 16, 2022
Fundamental Network building block
- + Industry Standard
- + Secure and Manageable
- + Full Vendor Support
- - Needs more "lower end tiers" for some sections of the market
June 16, 2022
Cisco Campus Switches
- Positive -- Robust switches for the campus workload .
- Easy for upgrades .
- Easy for management .
- Long-life relevance (we have many switches still running years past EOL)
June 15, 2022
Rugged, Reliable, go to managed switches.
- They pay for themselves over the long life and durability of the switches.
- They are reliable and easy to configure.
- They work right out of the box with minimal config, although the configuration is what makes them stand out from other competitor switches.
June 15, 2022
Cisco Catalyst 9300
- Uptime
- Poe for a variety of devices
- Reduced cabling
- Efficient and Network availability
- Scalability
- Flexibility of installation
June 14, 2022
Cisco Catalyst Switches
- Reliability
- Ease of learning
- Has saved staff members lives