We performed a comparison between HPE Ethernet Switches and NETGEAR 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."The initial setup is straightforward. The steps are simple, and you can always contact support if needed. Overall, it's easy."
"Stable and scalable."
"The HPE Ethernet switches have very low latency."
"We can easily replace components without incurring significant costs in an error or failure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."
"These switches are very stable, to date I have not experienced any issues."
"It is a stable product."
"The scalability is very good."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"Valuable features include network monitoring and ease of programming for VLANs, etc. I especially like NETGEAR because it's easy to teach system administrators how to use them, how to look at them, how to make changes to them without having the complexity of CLIs, but still having a CLI should we need it."
"The remote troubleshooting features provide a single pane of glass where I can see my all my clients' equipment. If they're reporting a problem, I can go to the Insight Pro interface online and I can bring up that client and I can see all their devices and the status of all their devices."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"The ability to mix and match is invaluable. So, we didn't have to run massive super extensive switches in the data closets where it wasn't necessary. Being able to manage it all from one place, as all your network configuration settings went live across your entire building from one management console was really handy."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"I'm satisfied with the stability of NETGEAR Switches."
"The solution could improve by having more integration options."
"The VLAN tagging could be improved,"
"The cost could be better. HPE has to study it carefully with other vendors in the market, like Cisco or Juniper."
"The scalability is limited."
"A lower price would be an improvement because we always want to reduce our costs."
"Sometimes, we encounter the need for new technologies, especially when we require higher bandwidth. If we can't find what we need with HPE Ethernet Switches, we explore options from other vendors like Cisco."
"The solution's throughput should be increased because we often get stuck when it comes to IPTV streaming."
"When we have a lot of clients on the system, we lose signal and have to restart our antenna."
"One area that has room for improvement, and I know NETGEAR is working on it, is adding more features to the products lines in terms of what we can manage through the Insight portal... not all Layer 2 or Layer 3 settings are there yet."
"There's a lack of chips and, consequently, a lack of deliveries. They're out of stock at their European warehouse."
"Being able to pass AVB traffic over these switches, that would be a huge add. There are not many switches out that support that. The GS728TP NETGEAR switches used to or still do support AVB, but it would be ideal if the 4300 Series could support it as well."
"The tool needs to improve its network management. The tool can be also more simplified."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"The scalability and warranty should also be improved."
"Support needs to be improved."
"There are some design issues on which they really missed the boat. The problem has to do with rack mounting them because the lights and jacks should all be on the front, and the power on the back. The way they did it makes it really difficult to use them in a rack environment, because when the lights are on the opposite side of the jacks... you usually can't see the back side of a rack. You can't get back there to see, so it's just crazy."
HPE Ethernet Switches is ranked 10th in Ethernet Switches with 96 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. HPE Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Ethernet Switches writes "Allows to monitor all the switches online so we can see what is happening and offers good security features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". HPE Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Cisco Ethernet Switches. See our HPE Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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