We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches 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 benefit of the tool is that it is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuring a switch."
"It is an infrastructure tool, so it is just providing a backend service. Its most useful feature is that it operates on a regular basis. It is reliable."
"It works well."
"It can be expanded."
"The solution is beneficial for interconnecting POE telephones, computers, printers, and buffering networks."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"The availability of resources for learning about the product and doing evaluation of any issues is excellent."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"One of the biggest benefits of the remote management is that it's easy to use and you can use it from a mobile device or tablet with the app they've developed... If one of my engineers is out in the field at a client and an alert comes in from another client, that engineer can take that alert and look at it in real-time."
"We have one client that has three Insight switches and when we make a change to their network... we can make the configuration change and push it down to all three switches at once. We don't have to individually log on to each switch to make the change."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most important feature is the failover, the LACP links. That's the dual set it allows. We have redundant core switches and, if one fails or one network adapter fails, the other one can take over without problems."
"They should make so that they let users know five to ten minutes before productivity is restored in the case of power loss."
"The newer models are not so stable. Other products like 6800, 3750, were stable but starting from 3850 it got worse. We have a lot of issues and a lot of bugs. It's a new product so it's understandable but it should be improved."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to load new IOS software without performing a reboot or to be able to perform the reboot without disrupting end-users."
"Reporting could be improved as well as integration possibilities with other platforms."
"The price can definitely be lower."
"Their centralized management could be better. There should be some kind of software for centralized management so that I don't need somebody else to manage it."
"It's worked for the most part, but we've had to power cycle a few devices. We've had to ask customers to manually power cycle them with the power cord, after some of the firmware updates. Their updating needs a little improvement."
"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."
"NETGEAR Switches could provide local technical support services."
"I'd like to see a little bit of slowdown on the firmware updates. They've been doing a lot of them. I don't know if that's just because it's such a new product line, but the firmware updates have been a little annoying because they've been coming once a week. For a switch, that's a little extreme."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"What I'd like to see is more compatibility with virtual stacking, so that 4300-series switches and 3300-series switches will actually stack together and that virtual switch stacks, themselves, are not limited to just six devices, so that they can create larger loops with more bandwidth and more redundancy."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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