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."QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"The product is stable, and it performs well."
"The platform significantly improved our organization by addressing latency issues in our network."
"I have found this solution to be extremely stable."
"The main valuable features for me are the ease of configuration, the CLI, and the GUI."
"Perpetual POE is a valuable feature, because when the switch reboots, access points do not."
"The solution is extremely flexible."
"Customer support answers on time and resolve any issues I have."
"The configuration is easy."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"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."
"The solution was stable 10 years ago, there is room for improvement in this area."
"Personal automatization is a feature that should be addressed."
"Cisco forces end-users to accept billing for some capabilities or services that they may not want."
"Compared to other switches, the Cisco products are expensive."
"The licensing process should be back to how it was before. Now, you have to register online, and it makes staging a bit trickier."
"Reporting could be improved as well as integration possibilities with other platforms."
"The management of Cisco Catalyst Switches could be improved."
"In terms of performance, Juniper switches have a more user-friendly interface and more features than Cisco switches."
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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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