We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies and others in LAN Switching."The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"Cisco provides very good support services."
"The biggest advantage of having this solution is that it is easy to find engineers, and they are cheaper than hiring HP engineers."
"Cisco Switches are more stable in terms of hardware and firmware, rather than Juniper Switches."
"Cisco comes with built-in software access for network devices."
"It is very reliable."
"The stability and Cisco's support are the most valuable features."
"In terms of technology, Cisco is the leader in everything. I'd rather buy a second-hand Cisco switch than a brand new switch from a competitor. They're that reliable and resilient."
"Their technical support is very good. They know what to do and if they don't know what to do, they give me the person who does know."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"When users put Cisco Catalyst Switches in the same environment or infrastructure where other devices or products exist, like HPE, Aruba, and Ubiquiti, it doesn't work properly."
"The delivery dates need to be more expedient."
"The product is expensive."
"In a future upgrade, I would like to see integrated wireless in the solution."
"Cisco is the most expensive product."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
"The solution could be easy to use, you need a certificate to use it."
"It can have more security features to secure the access layer."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and VMware NSX.
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