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.
"We find the product very easy to configure."
"The warranty and continued firmware support are most valuable."
"Cisco provides very good support services."
"We decreased budgets on the support corporate network and increased user satisfaction."
"The solution is easy to implement and quick to deploy."
"The technical support is at an expert level."
"The product is convenient to deploy."
"Easy to manage, with a long lifespan."
"The most valuable feature of HPE ProCurve is its ease of use and implementation."
"HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"It has an excellent menu system where you can use both the CLI and a menu system and the GUI version. They have three options for manipulating, updating, and changing the switch, which we like."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"ProCurve is easy to configure and to know how to create each connection and configuration."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Its easy manageability is most valuable. It's easy to manage."
"In my experience, the scalability has been good."
"The product must improve its security."
"The current catalyst is probably outdated so we will most likely move to the newer version of the solution soon."
"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."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches could improve by having more integration with third-party products."
"We'd like Cisco to integrate with other solutions, including their own."
"Cisco can definitely improve the training part. They can provide more training related to configuration."
"Cisco should provide customers with a more advantageous licensing model included with the purchase of the equipment."
"The customer service and support need a bit more improvement and a faster response. So, there is an area of improvement."
"The user interface (UI) could be better."
"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."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
"The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface."
"I don't have any recommendations for areas of improvement."
"I would like to see some kind of packet tracer where people can study how the switch is operating."
"HPE ProCurve could improve by making their command more similar to other solutions, such as the access codes. There should be a standard. Additionally, if the configurations could be done from the cloud would be a benefit and the port uplink speed should improve."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
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, Dell PowerConnect Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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