We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and Dell PowerConnect Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users feel Cisco Catalyst Switches provide great stability, intuitive reliable analytics, seamless scalability, excellent PoE capabilities, and solid robust security. However, users are happier with the pricing of Dell PowerConnect Switches.
"The biggest advantage of having this solution is that it is easy to find engineers, and they are cheaper than hiring HP engineers."
"It is a stable and good product. It is also easy to install."
"The hardware and the security are the product's valuable features"
"The product offers very good routing and ranking capabilities."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches are very stable."
"It is very reliable."
"These switches are stable. They work well and are easy to use."
"The features I've found most valuable are that the product is very easy to configure and inexpensive."
"The product is cheap."
"When the price is competitive the customers tend to choose the cheaper brand and then look at the features. So having a competitive price is a plus."
"Dell PowerConnect Switches are easy to configure."
"It's easy to set up. We can put it in production in a couple of minutes."
"There is high reliability since we have used them for close to twenty years and only had possibly one failure."
"The solution’s technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The price could be improved."
"If they worked on lowering the price, they would be able to attract more customers."
"In a future upgrade, I would like to see integrated wireless in the solution."
"The solution’s licensing could be improved."
"Cisco should work to lower its costs. It's quite expensive right now."
"In the future, I would like to see better security for this product."
"Cisco is weird about their pricing models, so that's one problem. Their operating system is also a little outdated."
"The price can definitely be lower."
"A user can take care of the product's installation part, but it may not seem to be an easy process."
"I would like to see better scalability and more features on these switches in the future."
"A big issue with this product is that when our customer migrated the data center, one cluster blocked the whole network and because we had a new approach, some commands were not compatible with the new version."
"The network features are not good."
"Not a ten because I have to do a lot of testing on it. The correlation is okay."
"The configuration should be improved."
"When it comes to the configuration, there should be documentation and interactive help available to assist people who have experience with products from other vendors."
"I can't think of what we would want in the next release."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while Dell PowerConnect Switches is ranked 3rd in LAN Switching with 30 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while Dell PowerConnect Switches is rated 8.0. 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 Dell PowerConnect Switches writes "Excellent support, good pricing, and easy setup". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas Dell PowerConnect Switches is most compared with Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve, NETGEAR Switches, Arista Networks Platform and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. Dell PowerConnect Switches report.
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