We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Catalyst Switches wins out in this comparison. The solution offers great durability, reliability, and scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches are feature rich due to Cisco’s brand exposure in the marketplace and can be easier to manage and maintain due to the amount of certified professional users available in the marketplace today. Cisco is a technology that many organizations know to be extremely stable and robust and the Catalyst Switches are another great value-added product that organizations know they can trust.
"Technical support is very responsive and helpful."
"The product is very robust."
"The Cisco software ties all the hardware together better than the competition."
"The pricing is quite good."
"Overall top of the line solution."
"The best feature is the technical support."
"VLAN gives us segregation."
"We find the product very easy to configure."
"The most valuable features are the price and the warranty."
"HPE ProCurve is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"The pricing is quite competitive."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"In my experience, the scalability has been good."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"Its easy manageability is most valuable. It's easy to manage."
"The user interface is simple to use."
"To make it a ten they should simplify the licensing, add the cloud-managed feature, and it should be more cost-effective."
"Their price should be improved. They are a little bit expensive."
"For the time being, Cisco Catalyst Switches are working well, but they are not PoE switches, which is why we would consider replacing them."
"The general price of the solution could be cheaper."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
"Cisco is a bit complex."
"It would be good if Cisco Catalyst Switches could align maintenance with one version."
"Cisco applies restrictions in relation to renewals on a yearly basis. Many other brands don't have restrictions. If Cisco lifted them, they wouldn't lose so many clients to competitors."
"Our customers are focused on features and generally, they would like to have a more feature-rich solution."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"An area for improvement in HPE ProCurve is the web interface not being as robust because you still have to go to the COI to make modifications or look at the exact configuration."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"I don't have any recommendations for areas of improvement."
"If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering."
"The product could be cheaper."
"There is one proprietary function they lack, and I can't remember what it was called, but it monitors the ports, and then every 10 seconds if the port is down, it can divert the traffic somewhere else."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 36 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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