We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Catalyst Switches wins out in this comparison. The solution offers great durability, reliability, and scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches are feature rich due to Cisco’s brand exposure in the marketplace and can be easier to manage and maintain due to the amount of certified professional users available in the marketplace today. Cisco is a technology that many organizations know to be extremely stable and robust and the Catalyst Switches are another great value-added product that organizations know they can trust.
"I recently discovered the DHCP feature. There is a feature with which you can make the core act as a DHCP server, and it will distribute the IPs for every device. I discovered this feature recently, and it is very nice."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"We heavily use the SmartPort features. It has really helped us. The U.S. policies are handled by the auto SmartPort feature"
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"These switches are flexible and user-friendly."
"The solution is beneficial for interconnecting POE telephones, computers, printers, and buffering networks."
"We use a lot of security features available with Cisco Catalyst Switches."
"We are a vendor for the healthcare sector, especially hospitals, and normally, we use a full Cisco solution for stability, especially for the stability of the Access Points and the security of switches."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"We have found the solution to be entirely stable."
"HPE ProCurve is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"The network management solutions that they have is great."
"This is a very reliable solution."
"HPE ProCurve offers a very good value proposition compared to that of other switches and is very energy-efficient."
"It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"I would like to see the integration of the 2960 SX switched."
"In an upcoming release, adding SD-WAN capabilities would be a big advantage for our company."
"The addition of more security and privilege levels to Cisco Catalyst Switches is required as it is one of the areas with certain shortcomings."
"Cisco should work to lower its costs. It's quite expensive right now."
"Their price should be cheaper. We lose a lot of work because of the price that they have."
"I would like to see a graphical user interface for the configuration."
"Its price should be improved. It is very pricey."
"An area for improvement would be the high price."
"HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"The product could be cheaper."
"They should learn from other vendors, such as Cisco. They all have a few specific routing features. HPE doesn't have any cheap BGP solution."
"The solution should offer different gigabit interfaces. Right now, they have ten gigabits. However, for our needs, we only need one gigabit. We don't need 24 or 48 ports. We only need eight to ten. HPE should introduce into their portfolio some smaller and more compact options."
"One of the weakest points of this solution is its on-premise. We are not able to do all we need to with the CLI."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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