Cisco Catalyst Switches
July 02, 2025

Cisco Catalyst Switches

Dominic Romandi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches
  • Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches
  • Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst Switches

We use them everywhere. We use them at the access layer, the collapsed distribution layer, and more. We have always used the platform in all of its iterations but currently we are moving towards having the entire 9000 series across the board. They address our design concerns, split vendor setup issues, and capacity management.

Pros

  • traffic handling and QoS policing
  • software upgrade ease
  • easy management

Cons

  • code bugs REQUIRING code changes
  • code bugs REQUIRING reloads
  • a mechanism to provide more redundancy or mitigate impact during a code change for access layer switches
  • The redundancy options on the non-access layer devices keeps uptimes higher which translates to service continuity.
  • The capacity and segmentation options enables a more secure and customizable environment.
  • The hot scalability enables us to add more endpoints in a live environment and expanding the existing footprint without impacting others.
  • Webex Meetings
  • Webex App
  • Webex Calling
  • Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point
The challenges are always streamlining and consolidation. It is difficult when a company spans many states and data centers to find a one size fits all approach but I think we have as we have moved towards the AnyConnect model. We also leverage Webex heavily not to mention the other suite of Cisco products.
Much of our staff is spread out across the country so having a consistent solution everywhere certainly helps accomplish more of our goals across the board.
It has enabled better work and life balance, better and consistent performance, centralized access management and also management of the software involved in establishing connectivity.
We certainly love the configuration consistency between the platforms now as IOS XE becomes a consistent backbone. The Cisco Catalyst Switches are like everything else and become a natural extension configuration and support wise of everything else. I personally do not have much experience with other brands of switches but the ones I have touched are much more difficult to manage.

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

I think they are well suited to mid or large size enterprise environments where you are dealing with that level of traffic. These are instances you likely have much segmentation and competing traffic interests. Perhaps less useful to the small business or office where much of that truly is not needed.

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