Cisco Catalyst Switches Scalability

SameerBali - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at Syriatel Mobile Telecom

This product is scalable.

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Karthikeyan Ravi - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of Technology at Netcon Technologies India Private Limited

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten. We work with enterprise businesses.

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SunilNair1 - PeerSpot reviewer
AGM - Infrastructure & Information Security at Aster DM Healthcare Limited

Cisco Catalyst Switches is a pretty scalable solution. Around 2,000 people in the hospital use the solution on a daily basis.

I rate the solution an eight to nine out of ten for scalability.

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Cisco Catalyst Switches
March 2024
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Munmeet Dosanjh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Virgin Media

The tool is scalable. We have more than 1000 users in our organization.

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NassifKaleny - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Bavaria Egypt S.A.E.

It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

There are more than 1,600 users of the solution in my company. I haven't used Cisco Wireless Access Points. I use Cisco Catalyst Switches for our company's main servers and a core switch, which supports streaming because Cisco is costly. The product is not meant to cater to users' needs but to meet the requirements of the main servers.

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DI
Network Administrator at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

The way we design things, we could scale them. We could scale, meaning that we could add more switches to our current design. But we're not at this point because there's no need yet. We pretty much thought about it right in the beginning.

We have about 750 users using this solution in my company.

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Pratik Tupe - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Process Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product is scalable. However, some features or technologies owned by Cisco can be a bit troublesome while deploying. They cannot be embedded with other vendors.

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PS
Senior Manager - SBR Technical Services at Reliance Industries Ltd

We design the network according to the environment's requirements. We also keep the network ready for the business requirements. When a request comes in, we help customers get their devices into a specific network zone. We have a huge number of users. My company caters to its internal customers, including JioMart, Jio Payments Bank, and JioChat.

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EmadAttia - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Oberoi

All our reports are based on Cisco Catalyst Switches.

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FeliksChertok - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief engineer at Arnatel

I rate Cisco Catalyst Switches an eight out of ten for scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches support the clustering of several switches. Our clients are mostly small enterprises with nearly five thousand employees.

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VA
Senior Network Engineer at High Frequency Trading

This solution is scalable. I don't think that it is stackable, but with a recent Catalyst that we have purchased, it provided four 10G uplinks.

Catalyst is installed in a central location. Everyone who connects to the company network goes through a Catalyst switch, one way or another. The switch is placed strategically so that we have the data of every incoming and outgoing connection. There can be 100 to 200 users.

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Arif-Kundi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at BazTech

We have over 400 Cisco Catalyst Switches users in our organization.

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KT
IT Manager at CLOUDJET GROUP

Catalyst Switches provide scalability and accommodate different network demands. 

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Ahmed Hawana - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at IDSC

Catalyst switches are highly scalable.

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XS
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is limited. There are other solutions that can do it better. Cisco is not number one in this respect - especially as more companies head toward the cloud. Luxul, for example, offers better scalability - if that is what a company is looking for.

We tend to use the solution quite extensively.

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

The tool is scalable. My company has 20000 users. My company has plans to increase its usage. 

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Itsikc BenTolila - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Malam-Team

The solution scales well. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

We have customers on the solution that have 5- to 100 users and others that have thousands.

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

The solution is scalable and we have approximately 1,000 computers using it.

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Akshit Chhokar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Specialist - Networking at Google

Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten.

The product is not easy for everyone to configure the initial setup. Sometimes, it becomes a pain point when people are not able to understand everything related to the product, and they run into certain issues, making it a reason why I would say that the tool is not that stable.

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RK
Account Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches can be used in any sized company. We have customers in small to enterprise companies, with our largest being General Reinsurance. Multi-national companies would benefit the most from the use of Cisco switches. This is why the international community likes this solution because it can be used anywhere in the world.

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CM
System Administrator at Finlays

It is very scalable. You can almost do any new thing that is coming. 

Our users will always be around 80 to 90 because the interconnections occur within the switches.

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Loris Signoracci - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Itworks srl

It is a scalable solution. Cisco solutions are always scalable.

My organization has around 200 users of the product.

There is a need to increase the number of devices or switches, or it can be done by implementing a change in relation to the old devices in an environment by moving from a 10 GB switch to 40 GB uplinks. A 10 GB switch is enough for now in my business.

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MM
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr

Catalyst is easy to scale, especially because of stacking. The stack member can reach out to each member per the tech stack group as well as for Catalyst. As long as you have a sufficient number of ports in the core and distribution, you can scale and connect as much as you need in the access layers. If you exceed the number of ports existing in the distribution, you can add another distribution layer and connect them together to extend the number of endpoints. 

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SZ
Information Technology & Audio Visual Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is pretty good. Our clients are more on the large side. 

With 4500 Series, you can add extra blades pretty easily, which makes things easier. You can also just stack them on top of 3850s or something else, add ports, and connect with fiber or ethernet. You're good to go. It is pretty easy.

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AR
eTrading Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good. 

We do not have plans, at present, to increase the usage, as we wish to change the technology several months down the line, the solution being included in these future plans. 

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Loris Signoracci - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Itworks srl

If we refer to shipyards, then we have six or seven shipyards in Italy and outside of Italy. When referring to Yachts, I have installed these switches on more than 100 to 200 Yachts.

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Tham Cm - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Cmsa

Cisco Catalyst Switches is a scalable solution, and two customers are working with the solution.

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Rabiul-Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at KNZ SOLUTIONS INC

The tool is highly scalable. Our clients are mostly enterprises.

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CB
Director of Information Systems / ISSO at Spectra Technologies LLC

It is very scalable. We have at least one in every building, and we have over 70 buildings that we maintain. Some buildings have even up to five of these.

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RafaelTorres - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Torres & Torres Tech

The solution has good scalability. Around 8,000 users use Cisco Catalyst Switches in our organization.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for scalability.

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Abubakar Bello - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Administrator at NDIC

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten. We plan to replace all our switches. We will choose Cisco.

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RK
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability has been excellent. A company shouldn't have any issues with expanding it if they need to.

We have three to five people that directly work with this product.

We already use so many Catalyst switches. I'm not sure if we intend to add any more. 

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JN
Works at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Catalyst Switches are scalable.

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Sultan Mohammed - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Network Engineer at IE Network Solutions PLC

The scalability depends on the device that is used and the client's requests, but overall, it is a scalable solution that can accommodate growing network demands. 

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MH
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches are scalable, and we use them for the entire team.

We don't need an upgrade right now because we're transitioning to another product that's already in place and ready in our infrastructure.

We have 500 users in our company.

We don't have any plans to increase our usage.

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GM
Project Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees

Scalability is not an issue. Cisco is their own market and it works.  

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten. We need to know the command lines to expand them. It is not GUI-based. The number of users varies from 100 to 5000. The usage depends on the requirements.

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DG
Sr.Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We can have multiple Cisco switches, like seven or eight, on a stack for 300 users. So it is highly scalable and easy to manage. There are 15,000 users on our campus total.

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Namra Saif - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Sales Engineer at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.

It is a scalable solution. The product is also flexible.

My company deals with around 50 customers who use the product.

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AH
IT Consultant & Administrator at ETCOM

This solution is scalable.

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PC
Head, IT Division at USTTB

Our network doesn't grow so much, and it has more or less the same things. We are a public university, and we have three sites. I am at one of the sites. At this site, we have about 60 to 70 people. We also have our campuses where some of these switches are used. All in all, we have about 1,000 people.

We are setting up a national research and education network for which we have acquired some Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series switches, which are new to me. When we start using these, I would have more to say about what they can achieve in terms of scalability.

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it_user583605 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization

Catalyst is very a very scalable solution thanks to its Stack mechanism, as well as the modular functionalities of some models.

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AD
IT Infrastructure Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco switches are very scalable.

We have two organic employees and we outsource between six and ten.

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VD
Senior Network Engineer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

We use a lot of products from Cisco.

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KW
Director of Product Management at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is good.

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Victor Arceo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Section Head at Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation

Cisco Catalyst Switches are scalable. We have about 1,300 users.

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HM
Telecommunications Engineer at Universidad

Scalability is good and is suitable for an enterprise network.

My clients are normally small companies.

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FB
Manager Customer Engineering South (Presales) at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

You can scale the solution quite well. It's good in that regard.

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MA
Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

If you follow the recommendation of Cisco, it is scalable. Sometimes, when there is anything wrong with it, we open a ticket with Cisco, and they recommend upgrading the IOS. 

We have many clients here. Most of them have Cisco. We have three clients with HPE. 

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MC
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability potential is very high. I can put many types of equipment on it and the solution will keep in the same level performance. It doesn't dip. 

Currently, we have 1,000 people on the solution. 

I do plan to implement the solution in future projects, as, so far, it has been issue-free and works very well. 

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EE
NOC Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We have 1,500 end users.

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DP
Sr. Project Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It's a scalable solution, but at a high cost.

Our clients have large-sized companies.

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RK
System Administrator at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

My impression of the scalability is that it is there if you need or want it. But some scalability is also built-in. We are getting the multi-gate switches, and the multi-gate can be scaled. If you have a 10G right now, you can change to 25G later, then 40G even after that. You have opportunities to scale out in different always. In our case, we already knew what we planned to do so we had already thought that through. 

As far as handling a volume of users, all the traffic of our whole organization is going to be passing through these switches. These switches are deployed on the call side, the distribution, and the server farm. Because of the setup, the whole of my data center and any user accessing the system is passing through it. We are a large educational organization and we have between 30,000 to 40,000 users total. On a daily basis, there will be 20,000 users on the system.  

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Charbel Hajj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Supervisor at MEPEQ

Cisco Catalyst Switches are scalable.

With the exception of WiFi, we have 40 users connected. We have small switches in some offices, and some users are connected to these small switches via a single cable that leads to the Catalyst.

Currently, we have no plans to increase our usage.

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JM
Converged Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is weird in terms of scalability. By the time you get to the point of scaling up any equipment, which it is capable of doing relatively easily, it is usually out of date. You end up having to rip and replace everything anyway. So, technically, it is scalable, but in practicality, it is not.

We're sticking with this one for a while. I am not aware of any plans to increase its usage.

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Abdulmajeed Alangry - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Ofoq

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand the product, they will be able to do so.

Our whole organization is currently using the solution. If I calculated all employees, it would be over 70,000 users. All of them definitely go through access switches, unless they are on remote access, in which case they don't access the switch.

We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward.

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it_user688617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is very scalable, because of the stacking features.

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AM
Network System Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The product can scale very well. When it comes to doing something like stacking - for example, stacking switches, of course, it is very simple to accomplish. It's very easy to stack two or more switches in order to expand the solution out. A company shouldn't have any issues with doing so. 

We have a client that has 800 users and up on the solution.

We do plan to continue to use the solution into the future.

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WK
Branch Manager / Team Leader at Bank Al Habib Limited

The scalability is good.

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ZP
Owner & General Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees

We use an old model, they're not designed to be scalable. But in general, the Catalyst networking suite is scalable.

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VP
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The way it is being deployed it is expandable. We can add additional devices, so it is good.

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AI
Head of Technology at Computer Services Ltd.

In terms of scalability, it's really working fine.

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GM
SOC Expert at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For our purposes, the solution has been scalable. You can expand it if you need to.

We have more than 1,000 people using the switches. 

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KR
Senior Executive at a leisure / travel company with 201-500 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches is a scalable product.

We have 450 people in our organization who use this solution.

We have no plans to increase usage at this time.

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DM
facility manager

The solution scales well. If a company needs to expand it out, it can do so with relative ease.

Everyone in our company uses the solution. We have about 4,000 employees currently.

We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward.

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TG
CEO at a construction company with 11-50 employees

The scalability depends on the design, not the product.

Based on our demand, we will continue supplying these switches to both new and existing clients.

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VK
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The solution is not stackable. To gain any kind of scalability with the solution is just about adding another 2960 Catalyst device. IN that sense, you can scale it however you like.

In our organization, we have about 3,000 users on the solution.

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JV
Vice President, Technology, Research & Development at Thales

Scalability is pretty good.

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MC
Technical Specialist at Wipro Technologies

It's scalable. If you want to install more switches it's pretty easy to pull up a wire, configure the new switch, and connect it to the network. It starts and you won't have to worry if the other switches will be compatible with it or not. In a multi-vendor environment as well, if you want to more switches, it works pretty well.

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AD
Co- Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is a scalable solution.

Around 100 people in my company use the tool.

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Raphael Haroun  Ikyagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Letshego

The solution is scalable.

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DR
Head Cyber Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches are quite scalable.

Our organization strength is around 15,000 using it.

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JO
Network Support Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable enough. It could be better.

We have around 2,000 users on the switches currently.

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Ryan Dave Brigino - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Es'hailSat

The solution is scalable, however, you need to plan for future scaling at the outset, otherwise, you will be limited. 

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IM
Senior Network Administrator at Calm blue ambassador - abcallcenter

We have approximately 200 users using this solution in my organization.

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AA
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. We're actually using it using iStack. It is stackable and very scalable to add more switches. It's quite easy to expand everything.

We're using these for our core network. It's across all our core network that is going through our IT department. For that reason, many people are on them. It's likely about 50 people 50, plus the user traffic. We're an ISP. We have some servers and portals that use these servers, switches to reach the network. Therefore, many, many users use that. We have a lot of user traffic going through the switches.

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AL
Network Security Coordinator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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AA
IT Support Team Leader at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The scalability is pretty good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's not a problem.

We have up to 600 or 700 users. It's not measured per user. Rather, it is per device. We have many devices on top of users.

We do plan to increase usage in the future. 

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YA
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

Cisco Catalyst Switches are scalable.

We have approximately 20,000 people who use this solution.

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SW
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

That switch was very scalable because itwas one of the ones that had nine slots in it. So it could have additional boards within.

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AA
IT infrastructure manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

I have not faced any problem with scalability.

In my opinion, the Catalyst switches are for enterprise-level organizations with 5,000 or more employees. If there are 1,000 or fewer employees then any switch will manage.

Some of the places I have worked in had networks with 20,000 to 70,000 users. 

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JJ
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is easy. It's easy to increase the size of our network, we use templates. 

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KB
Team Leader Presales at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability of the solution is quite good. If a company needs to expand, it can do so.

We have hundreds of users that are leveraging this product.

At the moment, we do not have plans to increase usage.

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JG
IToV Implementation Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I think that Cisco Catalyst Switches is a scalable solution.

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GC
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees

We have 500 users. 

It requires us to have at least 10 technicians. Five technicians and other administrative staff.

In the future, we need to do disaster recovery in the cloud. We are working on-premise and our future is to use it on the cloud for our disaster recovery.

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AO
Senior Network Engineer & Technical Instructor at Improtech

Very scalable. 

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IY
Product Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable but the configuration to have it scale can be complex.

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RD
Senior Network Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have approximately 500 Cisco Catalyst Switches installed.

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MV
Coordinator of IT infrastructures at UMC Electronics Mexico

Scalability is fine.

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MC
Region Head - S1@Dimension Data India at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches are quite scalable.

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RS
IT MANGER PAN-INDIA at Escon Elevator Private Limited

We have about 50 people using the solution currently.

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BB
Managing Director at Aster Networks

We typically deploy the solution to medium to large-scale enterprises.

The solution scales well. It's not hard for a company to expand it as they need to.

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it_user773409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. We have 400 users.

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EG
Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have a hundred users and maybe a hundred other ports for connecting servers with each other.

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RA
Group Head of IT at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

It's a scalable product. 

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MK
Lead Software QA / DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider

No issues with scalability.

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US
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches is a scalable solution.

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BS
SCCM Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable solution. We have 5,000 or more users.

We have several Catalyst switches in our environment. Most of them are running version 15.x of the operating system, although some of them are version 12.x and older. These may be upgraded in the future.

We may increase our usage although I don't know at present.

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CN
IT Manager at a construction company with 1-10 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches is scalable, we can expand the network regularly.

We have approximately 150 people using the solution in our organization.

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SM
Network Engineer at a security firm with 11-50 employees

The solution is certainly scalable. 

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SA
Head of Production Information Systems/MES at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have room to expand.

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MB
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

When it comes to scalability, Cisco is the one who has been pretty heavy on the switch-stacking deployment topology, which hinders your capacity to scale, especially when you compare it against their arch-rival, Arista.

We have about ten clients who have been working with Cisco forever. 

I'd recommend the solution to other organizations. When it comes to the budget, everything boils down to that and that's where Cisco would take the cake compared to Arista.

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RA
Network Administrator

Cisco Catalyst Switches are highly scalable.

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DG
Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

It's a very scalable solution. They are very easy to scale.

We have approximately 40 users in our organization who are using it.

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DH
Head of Project Management at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The solution can scale. If a company needs to expand, they can do so easily.

We typically deal with medium-sized companies.

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LW
Deputy Chief Engineer at SYSCOM COMPUTER ENGINEERING CO.

This is a scalable product. We have about 1,000 users.

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it_user180294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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AL
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

The solution is not able to scale because you would need to purchase more hardware.

Everybody in my organization is using the solution.

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it_user408189 - PeerSpot reviewer
User at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are no issues with scalability.

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it_user683439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It would be nice to see these products have built-in wireless access points like MikroTik.

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AV
CEO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution may be scalable, but I don't have much knowledge on its scalability. It's used for my company's networking and there are about 500 users. 

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SS
Senior Consultant

The solution is scalable.

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GG
IT Production Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

The solution highly scalable.

We have approximately 650 users using this solution in my organization.

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PW
Founder at SDWAN Clan

The scalability of this solution is really good because you can attach switches together. We currently have 5,000 users using the solution and we plan on having approximately 30,000 in the near future.

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TS
Network & Security Specialist at Fonicom

The scalability is quite good. We've never had any issues with scaling if necessary.

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LL
IT Consultant at L&M Alpha Solutions

It's very scalable. It's very easy to cover all the services.

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it_user403092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technical Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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LK
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

I have found Cisco Catalyst Switches to be scalable.

We have five customers using Cisco Catalyst Switches.

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YS
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability has been good. If a company needs to expand it, it can. However, you do need to have the right model, otherwise, you run into issues with scaling. 

We have 15 to 20 clients that use this product.

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Anoop-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Video conferencing Admin at Akshara Enterprises India Pvt Ltd

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 25 customers using the solution.

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MA
Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability of this solution needs to be improved. It is not very scalable. For example, if you want to enable the features such as VSS, you have to add other modules and hardware.

Other competitors have this feature available from the beginning. 

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SZ
Team Lead Network Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Cisco Catalyst switches are definitely scalable.

There are a number of models and scalability depends on the requirements. You have to consider how far you want to scale your organization with the different branches.

I work with many different organizations and many different users. Some have 6,000 users whereas others have 3,000.

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WC
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability depends on the layer you are talking about. Layer 2 is not scalable, however, Layer 3 switches offer very good scalability.

We have about 50 people currently using the solution.

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TH
Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You can scale the solution and you can choose different versions that fit the sizes of a variety of organizations.

Our clients range in size. Some are smaller organizations. Others are enterprise-level companies.

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SR
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is great. I have to say that the Cisco Catalyst solution provides the scalability directly in line with our needs.

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AB
Founder and Lead Network Consultant at Airowire Networks

They are scalable. We have are around 2,000 users. We use it quite extensively and we require at least two to three people for maintenance.

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RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable and there are approximately 700 people using the solution in one client's organization. I have plans to keep using the solution in some cases.

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LC
Head of Corporate Security at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It's a scalable product. It's very good.

We have approximately 200 users in our company.

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it_user617499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

As I mentioned, one of the great features is Stacking. One of our customers bought two switches. After about three to four months they bought another one. They only stack the switches. They do not need to add more switches at the core or distribution, connected at the base. They can stack up to eight switches, and they will work fine with no issues.

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WW
DevOps System Engineer at Monash University

Cisco Catalyst Switches is scalable.

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ML
Network Engeneer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Scalability will depend on the specific product. 

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AB
Founder and Lead Network Consultant at Airowire Networks

Catalyst is a highly scalable product.

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it_user236772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Experience Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

There were issues with the maximum stackable switches per site & monitoring setup.

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LK
Network Operations Center Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It's a scalable product.

This solution is used by 1,000 customers.

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MH
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is highly scalable. We have 120 users. It has high capabilities. We only require six or seven people for the maintenance. Cisco has guidelines for the maintenance that are straightforward. 

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DP
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

I have not configured these switches before, so I'm not sure about the scalability.

We have between 60 and 100 users.

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RP
Networking Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches is very scalable.

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MR
Junior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is quite scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's not a problem at all.

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VK
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable. We have 1,500 users.

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MB
Chief Deputy Quality Audit

Scalability is good. 

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DN
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable. 

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MM
Network and Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

I would say that this product is scalable.

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ST
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Cisco Catalyst Switches are very scalable.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco Catalyst Switches
March 2024
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