Cisco Catalyst Switches Reviews

I mostly use Aruba Central, Aruba ClearPass, and the Aruba switching portfolio.

I once provided a review on Aruba ClearPass and I have experience with Aruba.

I don't know products such as Aruba Orchestrator or Aruba VPN, or any others.

I have no idea about Aruba Introspect.

Regarding the features of Cisco Catalyst Switches, I don't have exactly a specific answer to this.

I use one Catalyst Switch as an edge switch and another as a core switch. The setup includes using all the SFP ports, and I intend to fully utilize them in the future. The environment is complex, with various components like virtual servers connected to physical servers that are linked to the switch.

Catalyst Switches are efficient and swift, which is valuable for my organization. I experience optimal speed and effective configuration, making them stand out compared to other switches. The PoE switches offer more ports on SFP, and it is efficient in use. 

Overall, the switches provide me with the value I expect in terms of speed and efficiency.

I use Cisco Catalyst Switches to provide network services at the service provider level. They are used for network distribution and to maintain diversity in my network design, including OEM diversity.

Cisco Catalyst Switches are valuable for their reliability and performance. They offer MACsec and IPsec encryption. These switches are modular, allowing for functionality to be configured as required. They are also essential in maintaining network diversity to prevent large-scale outages.

With Cisco Catalyst Switches, EtherChannels can be mixed with other ports or switches to ensure that users get maximum speed from the tool. The tool also offers VLAN membership. There is another category of products that fall under Cisco, which can be compared with Aruba or NETGEAR.

I work with Cisco products since the tools are very stable. You can manage Cisco Catalyst Switches as it is flexible to do so with the help of CLI. Aruba is very poor when it comes to the area of management via CLI. Users can get backup and restore remotely from Cisco Catalyst Switches as it offers many connections and consoles, like an additional auxiliary port, which is not a feature that others can find in Aruba. Users can migrate switches and routers of Cisco by adding more firmware to add extra features, like voice, that can make the device of Cisco work as a VoIP service. All of the aforementioned stuff can make a very good combination for a company to get a very cheap service with the same device, which is possible because of Cisco, and if Aruba can do it, then it would be great.

We use the solution for the data center infrastructure. It is a hybrid solution that requires high-performance computing capabilities to send traffic from on-premise data centers to the Azure data centers. We used the scalability of the solution for redundancy purposes.

The product’s scalability and performance are valuable.

We propose the solution to our customers. It is used in airports, smart cities, and city surveillance networks. We are using the 9300, 9400, and 9500 series.

The product improves network efficiency. We have highly efficient network visibility, security, and automation.

I never had downtime with Cisco Catalyst Switches in the last eight years, and I'm pretty impressed with its reliability.

The only drawback I saw with Cisco Catalyst Switches is that it's not cloud-managed. We have to manage them on-premises.

We use this solution for everything layer 2 related to our infrastructure, from data centers to local networks. Our business is airports, so we utilize them throughout the entire airport infrastructure.

On a day-to-day basis, we use it for all switching layers, like access, core, or distribution. We also utilize 802.1X.  

This solution has a pretty good rate of not causing unexpected behavior or failing. We're using maybe 900 switches right now. And, rarely, if ever, something fails, it's dependable.