We performed a comparison between ExtremeSwitching and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The performance of ExtremeSwitching is good."
"The solution has inspection firewalls that can do a deep packet inspection on a port basis."
"The most valuable features of ExtremeSwitching are that they are robust and have plenty of features. There is a lot of functionality. They have a lot of other features ExtremeSwitching that you can get involved with but I haven't been using many of them."
"Performance is good."
"The solution excels in configuration and other aspects. It offers reliability and performance."
"Our vendors are great and they offer very good support services."
"It is meeting our expectations in terms of performance as well as cost-effectiveness."
"They are good. We have been using them for about two years, and we are satisfied with their performance. For our network environment, these switches are working fine."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Technical support is helpful and quick to respond."
"You are not limited in terms of stacking ports, and especially, if you're using the 96X as a core switch, the scalability, I could see this being very large. If you're using a type of a hybrid topology with a core switch going out to multiple switch stacks, or something like that, I could see the scalability of this being very good, especially considering the kind of backplane switching capacity on the 96X."
"Remote management is the most important thing for us. And monitoring, of course, allows us to see when something is wrong with a client. We get notified that an access point is down, for instance, or that there are too many clients on one access point, so that we can log into the portal and manage the solution with the client instantly, from either a laptop or a cell phone, with the Insight app."
"The tool is stable."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"Extreme Networks does not have any entry-level products. This is a problem for them because Aruba has an Instant On series, which is new and cost-effective. Cisco also has the 1000 series, and other brands offer entry-level products."
"Their pricing could be a bit cheaper, as Huawei switches offer better pricing."
"The solution lacks a cyber asset attack capability."
"ExtremeSwitching has many features but having come from Cisco environments, there is a steep learning curve to learning all the functionality."
"The training and resources for learning are lacking."
"The interface could be improved."
"Their support could definitely be better."
"The solution as a whole has hardware quality issues."
"This product lacks a CLI interface."
"NETGEAR Switches could be more secure. Scalability could also be better. This infrastructure is a bit old, and we need something that will be more secure. Something that will introduce WLAN, and we will need the knowledge to go with that. Some of the switches were used for more than seven years. I think it was just their lifespan that was exhausted. But other than that, there haven't been any issues that required us to complain or get concerned."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can be improved."
"Netgear switches could be cheaper."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"Support needs to be improved."
ExtremeSwitching is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 17 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 50 reviews. ExtremeSwitching is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco Nexus, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our ExtremeSwitching vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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