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Huawei Ethernet Switches Valuable Features

Muhammad Kabir Salihu - PeerSpot reviewer
Muhammad Kabir Salihu
Deputy Director at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The performance of Huawei is good, and it provides security capabilities. Huawei is easy to configure, which is valuable.

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Raheel Khursheed - PeerSpot reviewer
Raheel Khursheed
Senior Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature of Huawei is that it already provides integration with any automation tool. You can write a script in any of the languages, put that file into the Huawei, and execute the task, whatever you want, based on logs or events that trigger inside the device.

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Farhan Uddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Farhan Uddin
Head Of Information Technology Department at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution's most valuable feature is its very simple configuration. The tool's built-in firewall is quite good. For the tool's efficiency, I can rate the solution as seven and a half out of ten.

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Huawei Ethernet Switches
December 2025
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Mr. Qalat Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mr. Qalat Khan
Expert Transport Planning Carrier, Enterprise & IP(Team Lead) at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The required functionalities align with telecom requirements and have improved from a capacity perspective. Additionally, power efficiency has been added, resulting in a more stable work platform. We used Juniper but struggled with it due to bugs and other issues. However, I have not seen anything like that with Huawei. Huawei provides free-of-cost batch upgrades to all networks worldwide if they find something that needs to be upgraded. Huawei usually recommends what we require so that they have symmetrical patches worldwide.

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Gary Koh - PeerSpot reviewer
Gary Koh
Area Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Huawei offers a wide range of products to choose from, which provides flexibility in deployment.

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Sudeesh S - PeerSpot reviewer
Sudeesh S
Senior Network Consultant at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The most valuable features are the ease of configuration, availability of a GUI apart from the command line, and basic features such as VLAN configuration and routing between VLANs.

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LalanChowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
LalanChowdhury
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The customers mainly choose Huawei instead of Cisco due to pricing. Huawei offers similar features at a cheaper price compared to Cisco. 

In some projects, I've observed that they are willing to lower their prices to compete with Cisco and expand their market share.

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Waqas Zubair
Senior Manager Technology at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The tool's valuable features are easy to deploy and troubleshoot with available documentation. They are cost-effective and can reduce operational expenses. Huawei Ethernet Switches have built-in AI features for monitoring and analytics. These are the tool's solutions, not third-party integrations.

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reviewer2069091 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2069091
Service Engineering Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is very flexible with many different options. 

The price, memory, and processor are good. 

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Chee Yuen Yap - PeerSpot reviewer
Chee Yuen Yap
Technical Director at a training & coaching company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable aspect of Huawei Ethernet Switches is their excellent scalability.

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Tham Cm - PeerSpot reviewer
Tham Cm
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We use Huawei Ethernet Switches for business networks and connectivity.

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Bilal Farooq - PeerSpot reviewer
Bilal Farooq
Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

They are very user-friendly. Handling Huawei is very easy.

It is a stable product.

The solution is scalable.

I have found the deployment process to be pretty fast.

It's an affordable product.

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Fernando Solanes - PeerSpot reviewer
Fernando Solanes
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

One scenario where Huawei Ethernet Switches improved network efficiency was last year when a customer needed switches with 10 gigabits, which are not very common in the market. Huawei provided this kind of switch, enabling the customer to upgrade their network from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit speeds across all devices.

The tool offers a range of switches from basic to high-end models, with different features. 

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reviewer2261043 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2261043
Administrator/ Enterprise Architect at a consumer goods company with 1-10 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches excel in compatibility with other brands, offering features to ensure seamless communication with existing protocols. This allows them to work alongside switches from different manufacturers, such as Cisco, by making adjustments on both ends for compatibility. 

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Khine Shein Win - PeerSpot reviewer
Khine Shein Win
Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

It is cheap. Another reason is that we cannot change to another product already. It's GPON, and it's not quite cheap. Something might probably change around half a million.

Generally, the core features of wireless networking equipment from Cisco, Aruba, and Ruckus are similar. All three vendors offer the ability to configure basic features such as DHCP, routing, and security.

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Mohammed Asim - PeerSpot reviewer
Mohammed Asim
Group Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches is a stable product.

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JoseQuintero2
IT Business Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We need the report on their network with the Internet included as well. We have the opportunity to provide customers with cheaper solutions instead of opting for high-priced options from older brands like Cisco, which are extremely expensive. Also, the Russian store's solution manager is good.

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ABDUR_RAHIM
Deputy Manager - Radio Frequency Planning at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches support multiple vendors. You can integrate them according to the network scenario. Their power consumption is low. 

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Rajesh Panwala - PeerSpot reviewer
Rajesh Panwala
Managing Director at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

We have not encountered any issues in the locations where the product has been deployed. I am impressed with its performance and pricing. 

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Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Moses NYOTA
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The basic features are great. We can connect to the internet through SIM cards, through the phone network, to 4G and 5G networks.

It provides Wi-Fi on the premise and basic switching and routing capabilities on facilities.

They're straightforward to set up. Even a non-technical user can just take a Huawei Switch with a few lines of documentation, and they're able to put them online. They have the ability to use them even a totally new or non-technical user. It's a bit easier to use.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Olajide Olusegun
Network Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable features of Huawei Ethernet Switches are high reliability, ease of deployment, and manageability.

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Halim Osman
Technical Support at a government with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of the solution is its network monitoring system. 

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Ndaba Tshuma
Professional Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool’s pricing is reasonable. It has a high throughput capacity.

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Azedine ADJTOUTAH - PeerSpot reviewer
Azedine ADJTOUTAH
Distributor at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

It's working fine. It responds to our scope and we are satisfied with the product.

It is straightforward to set up. 

The solution is stable and the performance is good. 

We can scale the solution.

It's a solid product.

We have found the pricing to be reasonable.

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Kaan Kanyilmaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Kaan Kanyilmaz
Team Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is easy to set up. 

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Vicente Manuel - PeerSpot reviewer
Vicente Manuel
Information Security Technician at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've used the solution for a long time. They last quite a while.

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Sintayehu Alemu
Director Of Information Communication Technology at a university with 501-1,000 employees

The functionality is great. The functionality is basically the same as Cisco. However, with Cisco, some protocols are standard proprietary on the Cisco side. Also, with Huawei, some protocols are proprietary. 

The pricing is much lower than, for example, Cisco.

It works quite well in general.

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reviewer1128984 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1128984
Manager Infrastructure and Security (SCADA) at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The pricing is quite good.

We find the support to be helpful.

The solution has been stable so far.

Scalability isn't an issue.

The initial setup is pretty simple.

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reviewer1621608 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1621608
Information Security Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

At the time, for our sized organization, they were cost-effective, fit for purpose, and risk assessed to go in accordingly because they were cheap, and they have lasted, but now it doesn't give us the ability to do what we need because we've grown exponentially in the last eight or nine years. 

The one thing is those products were cost effective, and for what they did, their costing is a lot cheaper than any Juniper or any other product out there. But if you need scalability, normal monitoring tools, backup and switches, they're not going to be the product for a team.

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Philbert Nduwimfura
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

The Huawei switches are stable, easy to set up, and cheap.

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Alaba Ayotunde O. OLUWAYIMIKA - PeerSpot reviewer
Alaba Ayotunde O. OLUWAYIMIKA
It Asset Management Lead at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution easily integrates and operates well with Cisco.

Pricing-wise, Huawei is quite good.

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MuhittinAkar
Hardware and Networks Support Executive at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Huawei Ethernet switches are easy to use and can be managed using either the GUI or via the command-line.

This solution integrates well with products from other vendors, such as Cisco.

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reviewer782642
Network Telecommunications Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The solution works fine. The performance is good. 

It is pretty straightforward to set up.


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Aminu Abubakar
IT Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We find the technological features most valuable.

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Ahmed Shibel
Pre-sales engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have found the most valuable features are search, about, EQS, MPLS, and iStack.

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Emmanuel Bakare - PeerSpot reviewer
Emmanuel Bakare
Product Design / Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The affordability of this solution has been most useful. 

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Umer Siddique
Sr. Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches' most valuable features are the power supply and that they're dust-proof.

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YaserAltwailey
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We don't have any issues with the security of Huawei Ethernet Switches.

It integrates well. There is no problem with their integration.

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reviewer1467366 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1467366
IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The solution is easy to use, flexible, stable, and it offers great performance. In my view, it's a total solution.

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Ivorn Zhang
Director Of Information Technology at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

The stability is good.

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reviewer1217082 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1217082
IT Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

What we like the most is that the price is reasonable and it's easy to manage.

It's a switch that has all of the features that it needs to have.

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it_user1190679 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1190679
Network Architect & Pre-Sales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The feature that is the most valuable depends on who the customer is. The power of the Ethernet is important for us and for our clients. The multi-gig options are important for us all. All the routing protocols that they have are important for us. The level of importance of each of these features depends on the specific business requirements for a specific company.  

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Muhittin Akar
Network Security Expert at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, easy to configure, it's priced well, and the operating system is easy to understand.

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Umer Siddique
Sr. Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In terms of the most valuable features, LAN switching is more comfortable and valuable in the network. It is easy to configure and easy to deploy. It is helpful for the installation and it is easy to troubleshoot issues. It's an easy product to understand. It's a good solution. 

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Rodoljub Katic - PeerSpot reviewer
Rodoljub Katic
Wireless Network Design Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like getting that CLI syntax, it's quite similar to the Cisco product.  

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reviewer1023120 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1023120
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features will be those features that are really considered as basic features of this type of switch. That includes things such as spanning tree protocol, Huawei's proprietary intelligent stacking called iStack, and the routing features that come along with the switch software package.  

Because Huawei does not charge any license fee on extra features I can repackage it. When you buy a switch from Huawei, the switches come along with a lot of features that you do not need to pay extra money for but you can use these features to build out similarly to something like Cisco switches. There are some features that it does not include, so you have to pay some extra license fee to enable those capabilities.  

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reviewer1187313 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1187313
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most important feature that our clients look for in this solution is that it will perform how it says it will perform for the best price and that it will provide good support.

In terms of communication, implementation, and permissioning, we have on-hand implementation documents on the website that you can download if you want some second project in certain kinds of scenarios. Huawei has the advantages here, because with Cisco I can not find it. You have to do it yourself.

Durability is fine. The performance is fine compared with other products

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it_user1034097 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1034097
Technical Manager

The most valuable feature is the audit systems. I also like that it can synchronize on the alternate configuration of products together at the same time.

What I like about Huawei is that it has a very fast response to troubleshooting problems and regulates reports with very great production. Instead of other manufacturers that are pretty slow sometimes to expand. That is why I work with Huawei and not other solutions. Other manufacturers should speed up their answers.

It's a problem when you have several large networks and the problem is not at a specific point, but many different problems together. 

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Ashok Braganza - PeerSpot reviewer
Ashok Braganza
IT Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees

The HTTP features for security are very good. We use all of the regular features.

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Huseyin Yildirim
Founding Partner at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is very inexpensive. The documentation is very good. 

Technical support is also very good.

They have the ability, since they have a very big R&D team, to create an upgrade for any feature or patch very easily.

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it_user1118574 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1118574
Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The velocity of the process is the most valuable feature. 

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reviewer2347440 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2347440
Product Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches has multiple security features but the campus switches feature is vital. For some projects of our company, Huawei Ethernet Switches are more affordable than Aruba solutions. But for layer 3 or high-level switches, in some cases the Aruba switches are cost-effective, thus the price depends upon the project, configuration and the design. 

Huawei Ethernet Switches also have effective network switching features. 

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Ray Ramos
Team Lead for Tech Support at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches come with native ACs. 

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reviewer2238126 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2238126
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Huawei Ethernet Switches are functional. It has a good response to resolve issues. 

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Buyer's Guide
Huawei Ethernet Switches
December 2025
Learn what your peers think about Huawei Ethernet Switches. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
879,711 professionals have used our research since 2012.