We performed a comparison between Huawei Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If you're a small one-on-one organization, then cost-effective-wise, I would recommend it."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, easy to configure, it's priced well, and the operating system is easy to understand."
"They have the ability, since they have a very big R&D team, to create an upgrade for any feature or patch very easily."
"The solution is scalable."
"The functionality is basically the same as Cisco."
"Huawei Ethernet switches are easy to use and can be managed using either the GUI or via the command-line."
"The affordability of this solution has been most useful."
"The solution is very flexible with many different options."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the ease of stacking. The configuration on the MS Switches is very good, as well as its ability to assign the LANs."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard because it makes it easy to manage all of the switches. It's easy to turn them up and get it configured."
"Easy to set up, stable switches with good accessibility that makes it quicker to identify problems, find solutions, and fix problems."
"The technical support is quite good."
"It is easy to set up and easy to monitor. It is also easy to check the status of the switch."
"The interface is great. It's easy to understand for the customer."
"Meraki MS Switches is easy to use and implement."
"The GUI could be improved. It could be much more adaptable."
"The solution should make the text report more accessible."
"The graphical user interface could be much better."
"Huawei Ethernet Switches should improve its user interface."
"In the next release, I would like to see an increase in the performance of DDoS protection systems against all kinds of attack packets."
"The interoperability of the devices, in general, on the Huawei switches is not good and is known to be not good. Maybe they can improve this a bit."
"The only thing that could be better is the security module."
"The durability of the device can be improved."
"At times, we didn't know whether the switch was operating or not so we have to take the console and we have to do some troubleshooting."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"The troubleshooting could be better."
"Clients are very confused by technical support. They seem to have trouble reaching Meraki to get the assistance they need."
"Technical support hold times seem to be getting longer."
"I don't think that the cost is a problem, but sometimes the price requires convincing the customer of the value."
"In reference to an area of improvement sometimes the switch does not connect to the internet initially."
"Management from a single dashboard is what I want to see from Meraki MS Switches."
Huawei Ethernet Switches is ranked 13th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews while Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews. Huawei Ethernet Switches is rated 7.6, while Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Huawei Ethernet Switches writes "The solution is power efficient, stable, and provides free-of-cost batch upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". Huawei Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, HPE Ethernet Switches and Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center, whereas Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and NETGEAR Switches. See our Huawei Ethernet Switches vs. Meraki MS Switches report.
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