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."
"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."
"We decreased budgets on the support corporate network and increased user satisfaction."
"We have to use the QoS (CBWFQ) function... and it is easy to use."
"The product is convenient to deploy."
"I have found this solution to be extremely stable."
"The solution works well with analytics."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I highly appreciate the durability and the availability"
"One of the most valuable features is the MatchBox Switch."
"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."
"The solution could improve security."
"The vendor must provide mid-level switches."
"The product could always be more secure."
"Cisco should provide customers with a more advantageous licensing model included with the purchase of the equipment."
"Soon, we plan to migrate to the cloud infrastructure. It would be good if the Cisco switches worked quickly in the cloud, like their hardware devices. Ideally, they would be like OVS-DPDK, but they would work out-of-the-box."
"To make it a ten they should simplify the licensing, add the cloud-managed feature, and it should be more cost-effective."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"Cisco has to lower the price of its products to make them 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 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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