We performed a comparison between Huawei 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."They are very user-friendly. Handling Huawei is very easy."
"We have not encountered any issues in the locations where the product has been deployed. I am impressed with its performance and pricing."
"It is a stable product. I rate it a nine out of ten...It is a scalable solution."
"What we like the most is that the price is reasonable and it's easy to manage."
"Huawei Ethernet Switches come with native ACs."
"They last quite a while."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I'm satisfied with the stability of NETGEAR Switches."
"The solution helps transfer data."
"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."
"The High Bandwidth AV-over-IP functionality of these switches has been fantastic, especially in leaf-and-spine. We've been able to build redundancy and they seem to outperform even the Cisco Catalyst, which is about twice as expensive as the M-series switches are."
"One of the biggest benefits of the remote management is that it's easy to use and you can use it from a mobile device or tablet with the app they've developed... If one of my engineers is out in the field at a client and an alert comes in from another client, that engineer can take that alert and look at it in real-time."
"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 initial setup was straightforward."
"We have a wide range of switches for various applications, including a collection specifically designed for ProAV, as well as Multi-gig Switches, which are also quite well-known or unique."
"The configuration is very difficult even for someone who is already familiar with the configuration process."
"The availability and the speed of the firmware updates are the only things wrong with Huawei. There are some vulnerabilities on the hardware."
"The durability of the device can be improved."
"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 product should improve cloud capability."
"Dashboard could be improved."
"We would like to have a greater level of automation using this solution. The customer support could also be faster."
"The solution should make the text report more accessible."
"There's a lack of chips and, consequently, a lack of deliveries. They're out of stock at their European warehouse."
"I would like an email notification in case of errors or failures. If it was possible for the switch to email out an error log or notification note, especially in cases where we have the switches offsite (on the other side of town), then if something was to go wrong, it would be great to know about it before our client goes to use it for a big event, and it doesn't work. While I know that it does do SNMP, which is sort of standard, in the AV world, that is not always an option for us. We are usually running our own little network box and don't always have access to an SNMP server. We may just have simple Internet access or something similar."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"The ‘how-to’ guides could do with some improvements. We got in trouble following the stacking and Dante set-up guides. If these would have been accurate, we would not have lost three days."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"One thing I have asked for, something that NETGEAR lacks that I would love to see — and from what I understand it's in the works — is a REST API to programmatically interface with multiple switches. That would be a great feature."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
Huawei Ethernet Switches is ranked 12th in Ethernet Switches with 54 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. Huawei Ethernet Switches is rated 7.6, while NETGEAR 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Huawei Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our Huawei Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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