Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches Review
June 16, 2025

Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches Review

John Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches

We have a lot of field devices that requires industrial ethernet infrastructure for just the extreme temperatures that we use out on the East Coast. We deploy these in a number of our LCP cabinets out in various spots in the field.

Pros

  • We're extremely proud of the IE3300s. We actually put them up on the cranes as well and with all the movement of the cranes, they're very sturdy and durable. We have not had issues at all with them.

Cons

  • We would love to see 10 gig ports as well as 10 gig uplinks. That's our biggest issue with that device.
  • Just the scalability portion of it has just made it easier for us to add those modules versus buying more switches.
We actually just stood up our DNA center environment a month ago. We have not had a chance yet to add any switches to it.
We're currently not segmenting our network, but that is a future goal for us. Was not even made aware that the IE3300s could do that, so that's awesome.
Gave it that rating because it's a smaller switch with a small footprint and just the ability to add ports just on demand without configuring another hose switch or changing out your hardware system. Amazing. Saves us time.
I've used the IE4000s. Those were our signature IE switches and they were end of sale so we switched over to the IE3300s and we actually like those better because of the scalability.

Do you think Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches again?

Yes

Like I said, it's well for outdoor environments they hold up pretty well in the harsh Georgia heat. We use a number of them indoors as well. Don't really have any negative comments about the product.

Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches Feature Ratings

Ethernet Switches
Not Rated
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Not Rated
Management Interface
Not Rated
Hardware Security
Not Rated
Quality of Service (QoS)
Not Rated
Switch Scalability
Not Rated
Switch Redundancy
Not Rated
Link Aggregation (LACP)
Not Rated

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