Good experience
February 11, 2023

Good experience

Aymane Sabbane | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 1000 Series
  • Cisco Catalyst 2960 X/XR Series
  • Cisco Catalyst 2960 - L
  • Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series
  • Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst Switches

  • Catalyst 9200 Series
  • Catalyst 9300 Series
  • Catalyst 9400 Series
  • Catalyst 9500 Series
  • Catalyst 9600 Series
We are currently deploying them for a campus as a 3 Tier architecture:
- 9200/9300 access layer
- 9400/9500 distribution layer
- 9500/9600 core layer

We benefit from HA capability of all of them, Access layers such as 9200 and 9300 have the Stackwise feature, while 9400/9500/9600 we use virtual stacking capability.
  • high avalability
  • all layers support
  • Security state of the art
  • Web UI
  • Licensing
  • Security
  • High availability
  • Reduces down time
  • Security
Unfortunately our company didn't benefit yet fro; advanced customization and manageability, we currently use the cisco catalyst switches serie in a more traditionnal way, CLI, Scripts etc...
we are planning to modernize our deployments and exploitation soon, and maybe we will need to have a look at this in the near future.
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points series works perfectly with the cisco catalyst switch series, they can be integrated easily in the Cisco SD Access architecture using the Cisco Wireless controller 9800 serie as well as the Cisco DNA Center.
Also catalyst switches support high traffic forwarding, and catalyst 9100 access points work well when connected to a catalyst switch.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst Switches go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst Switches again?

Yes

Catalyst Switches are well suited for campus and healthcare deployment, very suitable for the 3 tier campus architecture since all campus related protocols are supported such as OSPF, Multicast, PIM.

Also for the access layer, we deploy 9200 stacks, and we use etherchannels for the uplink, and this give us high availability and redundancy>