high performance core and distribution switch
Updated March 09, 2023

high performance core and distribution switch

Giorgio Vezzaro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

Core switches with optical interfaces, distribution switches
  • uplink port choices
  • performance
  • Virtual stacking
  • Price
  • Innovation
  • 3rd party Integration
  • Big budget required at the beginning
  • Long lifetime
  • High availability and reliability guaranteeed
By script we save a lot of time in switch configuration and change management
We took advantage especially form manageability thanks to we set up mesh of core switches organized by couples of VSS.
We set also interfaces for our network monitoring software
Price per value is really better in Cisco product

Do you think Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches again?

Yes

Enterprise core switching well suited, DC not so much appropriate

Using Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

100 - A lot of customers (food & beverage, manufacturing, logistic,...) and service department which deliver the post sales tasks to them
20 - Cisco specialist CCIE, Cisco specialist CCNA, Network systems engineer
  • Multisite core switches system distributed thanks to Stackwise virtual
  • DC core for small customers
  • SD-Access Embedded Wireless
  • BGP routing
  • Application hosting
  • New Meraki dashboard
I don't want to substitute them. They are stable and reliable