Cisco Catalyst Switches are excellent for your site switching.
March 10, 2025
Cisco Catalyst Switches are excellent for your site switching.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches
- Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches
- Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst Switches
9500s are used in our branch sites as distribution and routers. This gives us high visibility via Catalyst Control Centre as well as a highly available site core. 9200s are used across our entire environment as the access layer, both in test and production. The simplicity of setup, management and patching is enough to make the CyberSec team cry.
Pros
- Switching
- Routing
- Ease of patching
Cons
- Standardization of power supplies would be nice
- Create a module port for the end to reduce the number of models
- Smarter restarts for stacks following patching would be nice
- Cost of hardware and licensing
- Delay on shipping was bad
- Routing and backbone speeds are slower than the NEXUS series if you need serious throughput
We are predominantly a Cisco house for networking, so the risk raised by introducing the split switching was too high. We also found there are more Cisco engineers available than Aruba/HPE switching engineers. The lifetime warranty from HPE was a major factor in considering the hardware change though and the licensing cost comparison was significant as well.
Do you think Cisco Catalyst Switches delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
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
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