Cisco Catalyst Switches

Cisco Catalyst Switches

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Catalyst Switches	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.	N/A

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	Cisco Catalyst Switches
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Cisco Catalyst Switches are much easier to use than NEXUS and Meraki switches. The NEXUS OS is confusing, and the Meraki is hard to troubleshoot. Incentivized Helpful? Tony Nguyen Hardware engineer in Engineering at Raytheon (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 capabilities with support for protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, and VLANs, enabling more complex and robust network topologies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches They are pretty much great because when it comes down to configuration in the IOS, it's much simpler in Cisco than these other ones. You got to do too much configuration. You do the same thing you can do with two commands, for example on the Cisco IOS. So yeah, I recommend more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches I required the need for Catalyst Switches and not routers Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches better performance and manageability Incentivized Helpful? Jasmin Patel Manager, Network and Telecommunications in Engineering at David Yurman (Retail, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Always used Cisco. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Much broader community for support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches I think Cisco Catalyst Switches works really well when they are implemented singularly to enhance connectivity. When designing an architecture from the ground up, I like to recommend FortiGate because their product is easier to use and when going all in on the Fortinet … Incentivized Helpful? Cedric Durand network admin at bordeaux (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We have selected Cisco Catalyst Switches for their performance. Cisco Catalyst Switches are recommended by a lot of institutions. Many institutions like the government, and many big companies. All who works in IT recognize the quality of this equipment. It's important for us … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Like I said, the Cisco Catalyst 1300 we evaluated and Cisco Catalyst 9200 & 9300 we evaluate and we choose for the mainly excess part Cisco Catalyst 1300 because they are much cheaper than the Cisco Catalyst 9300. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches I use some Aruba switches as well and some Huawei products as well. That's the reference, honestly, that's really all the products that are quite good are mostly copying what Cisco does. And when it does not copy, it's not as good. The only other competitor that does the same … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Juniper Network. I am used to the Cisco syntax, so for me it's like a no brainer. I will implement Cisco if it's possible. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches We only use Cisco. No other products or something. Cisco base or generally Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Compared to switches from other vendors, Cisco Catalyst Switches are more suitable for Enterprise and Industrial markets. Although other vendors offer switches with similar specifications and a more advantageous price in the short term, Catalyst Switches have a high reliability … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches Cisco pricier and maybe a little better. Also better stacking solution Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst Switches The 9300 is a lot more handy then the 9200. Biggest plus is XFSU that gives almost no downtime when upgrading. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Cisco Catalyst Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (625 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (31 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (32 ratings)
Availability	9.2 (9 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (30 ratings)
In-Person Training	7.1 (3 ratings)
Online Training	7.3 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.4 (8 ratings)
Configurability	9.7 (7 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.2 (5 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (9 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.6 (30 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.9 (31 ratings)