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."
"As there are many who are knowledgeable of this technology, this translates into extensive support for it."
"I like the management of streaming both audio and video."
"Overall top of the line solution."
"The operating system is great."
"The most valuable features are the Stacking and the capacity of the switches because they have more throughput. Layer 2 is also part of its rich feature set."
"Its implementation is quite simple as there's good documentation you can reference."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches is very stable, configurable, and durable. It is also easy to manage."
"Their technical support is good, one of the best in the industry."
"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."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"The product must improve its security."
"Currently, Catalyst is completely proprietary with Cisco. They should have programmability options, through open-source controllers."
"Its price can be improved. It is currently expensive."
"Pricing for this product is on the higher end, and is something that could be improved. Security could also be increased."
"The user interface needs improvement. Meraki has a much nicer UI. Cisco could learn a lot by looking at them. It might make them a bit more user friendly."
"When you compare it with HPE and Aruba, it should be fancier."
"The customer service and support need a bit more improvement and a faster response. So, there is an area of improvement."
"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 25 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Offers adaptability of the deployment process, with different strategies in different environment and good stability ". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, HPE ProCurve, Cisco Nexus and VMware NSX.
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