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 feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"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."
"It is a stable and good product. It is also easy to install."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features include the redundancy one and the spanning tree."
"The Cisco software ties all the hardware together better than the competition."
"Mostly the LAN switching is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"With Cisco Catalyst Switches, everything is working perfectly. We have not had issues with this solution."
"When it comes to Cisco Catalyst Switches, one can say that the legacy switches are stable."
"The quality of a Cisco switch is very high. They are extremely stable."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"There's a ban on my country and therefore I can't get Cisco support if I need it. It's not allowed."
"The solution’s licensing could be improved."
"It is not easy for everyone to configure the product's initial setup part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"Their price should be cheaper. We lose a lot of work because of the price that they have."
"Out of the competition, Cisco switches are easily the most expensive."
"The technical support, in some cases, should be faster and could improve."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
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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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