We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies and others in LAN Switching."The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"It helps keep our network connections in a healthy state."
"I like the flexibility of this product."
"The quality of a Cisco switch is very high. They are extremely stable."
"Scalable product."
"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."
"Since Cisco Catalyst Switches don't go online, they are secured."
"The product’s scalability and performance are valuable."
"This technology is a completely mature technology and I don't think anything needs to be changed."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"Stability could be better."
"The product could be cheaper."
"With most of the Cisco devices and models, we faced a slight decrease in speed during the initial setup and while restarting the system"
"I would like to see the integration of the 2960 SX switched."
"Currently, Catalyst is completely proprietary with Cisco. They should have programmability options, through open-source controllers."
"Scaling can be quite costly."
"I would like to see support for one-touch provisioning."
"Needs to improve cloud services and mobile software."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 170 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and VMware NSX.
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