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."
"It is very reliable."
"As there are many who are knowledgeable of this technology, this translates into extensive support for it."
"We use a lot of security features available with Cisco Catalyst Switches."
"It helps keep our network connections in a healthy state."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product offers very good routing and ranking capabilities."
"The stability and Cisco's support are the most valuable features."
"Scalable product."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"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."
"There's a ban on my country and therefore I can't get Cisco support if I need it. It's not allowed."
"The licensing process should be back to how it was before. Now, you have to register online, and it makes staging a bit trickier."
"Their price should be cheaper. We lose a lot of work because of the price that they have."
"I would like to see a graphical user interface for the configuration."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"Cisco needs to improve compatibility with other solutions and other vendors like SolarWinds. We've had problems using Catalyst with SolarWinds. Some devices can't be put on SolarWinds due to some ID Values and so on."
"The current catalyst is probably outdated so we will most likely move to the newer version of the solution soon."
"We need to rely on other devices to provide management features."
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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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