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 Catalyst Switches are the best overall."
"It works well."
"The solution is stable."
"The configuration is easy."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it is to use."
"These are a proven technology and I haven't had any problem with them."
"We haven't needed to contact technical support because we haven't had any issues so far."
"Catalyst switches are highly stable and easy to use. It's a technology well known by most engineers."
"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."
"It can have more security features to secure the access layer."
"The addition of more security and privilege levels to Cisco Catalyst Switches is required as it is one of the areas with certain shortcomings."
"The licensing process could be a bit less complex."
"The price is high and it should be improved."
"Cisco is the most expensive product."
"Pricing mainly is the only issue."
"The delivery dates need to be more expedient."
"To make it a ten they should simplify the licensing, add the cloud-managed feature, and it should be more cost-effective."
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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 166 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, HPE ProCurve, Cisco Nexus and VMware NSX.
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