We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Catalyst Switches wins out in this comparison. The solution offers great durability, reliability, and scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches are feature rich due to Cisco’s brand exposure in the marketplace and can be easier to manage and maintain due to the amount of certified professional users available in the marketplace today. Cisco is a technology that many organizations know to be extremely stable and robust and the Catalyst Switches are another great value-added product that organizations know they can trust.
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"The solution offers great scalability."
"It has the ability to create new services for users, such as IP phones and video conference."
"The product’s scalability and performance are valuable."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, it's easy to configure. The command line uses a switch that gives us security."
"It's got one feature, and that's handling extreme temperatures."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches are the best overall."
"HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"HPE ProCurve is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"It is stable, and it fulfills our needs. We have all the functions we need, so we're totally satisfied."
"The LAN features give us exactly what we need."
"It is easy to deploy."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The network management solutions that they have is great."
"An area for improvement would be the high price."
"Their price should be cheaper. We lose a lot of work because of the price that they have."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"Scaling can be quite costly."
"The tool is not user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by allowing administrators to create scripts to help automate processes to make tasks easier."
"When you compare it with HPE and Aruba, it should be fancier."
"They should be cheaper."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement."
"There is one proprietary function they lack, and I can't remember what it was called, but it monitors the ports, and then every 10 seconds if the port is down, it can divert the traffic somewhere else."
"They should learn from other vendors, such as Cisco. They all have a few specific routing features. HPE doesn't have any cheap BGP solution."
"A few areas included in the network performance managers can be integrated into the solution's dashboard since it is the only area with a few concerns."
"If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering."
"HPE ProCurve is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. 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 HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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