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Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
December 07, 2023

Cisco Catalyst Switches Review

Richard McKenna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst Switches

We have a need to bring a lot of users into our network and Catalyst switches provide the port density that we need to bring on our users. It also provides performance to move that traffic through our network at the speeds that we're required at the scaling that we require. It also gives us the flexibility to have a mixture of fiber and copper ports to bring on those users and build fiber actions out to the data center along with the reliability of having a Cisco product that we know we can depend on the trust.
  • Being a mining company, we've seen Catalyst switches deployed out in the field when it comes to doing a lifecycle upgrade. We've taken these switches out 37 fifties in particular and opened them up and they were still working when we pulled them out and when we opened them up, they're completely full of dust and they've seemed to have survived for many years in deployment and we're hoping for the same longevity out of the current range of nine K series shallow switches.
  • Can't think of anything to improve
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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

Being a mining organization, we have a mixture of use cases where we need IoT products to suit environments as well as catalyst switching in the data center in controlled environments, we tend to use color switching while in other environments we use other products. I found the colorless switch used to be quite reliable in both environments, which is outstanding. One of the major problems with our deployments is that we have limited capability to express dust. Iron ore dust gets into permeates the right data centers and coats the switches, which makes cooling a problem. But in reality we've had color switches running for many years in tough environments and the reliability has been fantastic.