Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Review
August 26, 2023
Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches
We use them as edge switches primarily, although we do have a few situations where they're more at a distribution level, but mostly edge switches. They make good reliable edge switching solutions to connect end users to the rest of the network.
- It's got good flexibility as far as port speeds and the types of devices that can be connected as well as with the network module, we can connect fiber as well. That's useful. And it's pretty much the standard Cisco switch. So normal, I mean, yeah, it works as intended. It definitely is what we need.
- The only one I'm aware of, and this isn't even an issue with the switch, but it is in our environment specifically. A lot of the switch or some of them, I don't remember which models particularly, but they don't downgrade the speed all the way to 10 megabits, which we really shouldn't still need. But for whatever reason in our company and in some other healthcare organizations, we still need devices connecting at 10 megabits, which these don't. Well, some do, some don't.
I think we're just really just using them as edge, which is, we're not really using some of the other automatization features that they have, unfortunately.
I believe these integrate well with DNA Center, we are just rolling that out so we're at the infancy of that. We haven't taken advantage of it yet, but we are planning to.
Do you think Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches again?
Yes