I rate Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch Ethernet Switches seven out of 10. They're solid switches in an enterprise environment, but I can't say anything more because I'm not the engineer who uses all the switch's features.

I know these switches have redundancy software capabilities, but we only tested three switches, so we didn't really have the amount it takes to test redundancy and resiliency at a larger scale. We didn't quite have enough to test that to its full extent.

Overall, everything worked as they said it would. Based on our experience, Alcatel-Lucent was a very good company, friendly and easy to work with. They had a good product that was able to meet all our needs.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

I highly recommend OmniSwitch Ethernet Switches and would rate them ten out of ten.

All of the features in these switches are good. In most cases, everything that our customers need is already inbuilt.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

As someone with long-term experience with the product, I can say that you can trust the Alcatel switches. Earlier, before moving to this company, I did not work with Alcatel switches. When I came here and found out that we have Alcatel Switches, it seemed a little strange to me that I wasn't going to be using Cisco switches. I continued for some time a bit worried thinking that we would have some issues. But now, after 10 years, I can say I have complete trust in this product.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as a nine out of ten. The only reason it is not a ten is the compatibility issue where the Alcatel switches should be more compatible with other brands and not just amongst their own products. I don't think it is a serious issue as we use the Cisco and Alcatel together now. I just think this compatibility and flexibility could be better.

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10. 

The current version of the solution we're using right now is 6500 for the OS.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.