User Reviews of Cisco Catalyst Switches & Dell PowerConnect Switches

Updated March 2024

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Cisco Catalyst Switches review

SameerBali
SameerBali
Network Architect at Syriatel Mobile Telecom
Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed
I like Cisco Catalyst Switches because most of the time, we can do what we want with the product. Cisco has good guidelines that enable us to implement anything, so we can have a multiple ability product on most of the network equipment worldwide. Cisco has communities or forums that help us implement more complicated areas in terms of...
Dell PowerConnect Switches review

AhmedElghawabi
AhmedElghawabi
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Easy to configure and integrates well with Cisco hardware, but incompatible with SDN
We have decreased our use of Dell PowerConnect Switches in the past year because we are moving to virtualization and using SDN switches. The problem comes about because it is difficult to see the server end-point directly on the SDN. For our Dell servers, we are replacing the switches with pass-through modules because the spanning tree...

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