We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Cisco Ethernet Switches based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to set up, performs well, and has excellent customer support. In addition, it is less expensive than Cisco Ethernet Switches.
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"It can scale well."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very easy to configure."
"It is pretty easy to implement the product."
"The most valuable aspect for our organization is the CX. It's wonderful."
"It is a very good device for our company. It is stable and very scalable."
"a value-for-money product and comparatively a very reasonable price compared to competitors like SAP or IBM."
"They provide great service in terms of replacing malfunctioning switches."
"The product is pretty much reliable and stable."
"It's all-encompassing and can help you in all these different areas. If people realize that they want something that's going to work, that's pretty foolproof, then Cisco's always worth the investment."
"DNA Center is very interesting in automating the setup and monitoring as with each occurrence it gets easier to troubleshoot and provides an impression about what could be the problem."
"We don't need any support from Cisco since there are a lot of materials and training about Cisco available online. I feel Cisco's support is good."
"When it comes to switching routing, we have no doubts about Cisco."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is easy to use and it has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of the central management system(CMS)."
"The stability is 100%."
"The endpoint capabilities could be improved."
"The migration from older to newer products could be improved."
"I have some security issues with Aruba Switches. I need to update the firmware and then the problems might go away."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"If we compare Aruba and Cisco at the data center layer, Cisco has its Nexus switch. Aruba provides the new 10000 series, but it does not compare with the Nexus switch."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and the dashboard could be improved."
"We have needed to upgrade software to fix some challenges we experienced. After downloading the latest version of Aruba, these were fixed."
"I would like to see easier learning and configuration from previous switch deployments."
"Switches should be made stackable, even if they are not of the same model."
"Integration with third-party products could be improved."
"In the case of an already existing network, we encounter technical issues related to following protocols."
"The quality of Cisco Ethernet Switches could be better."
"Their firmware could be better secured against vulnerabilities or other exploits. Also, only selected catalyst switches are allowed to onboard to Cisco SD Access technology."
"If Cisco Ethernet Switches can work both on-prem and in the cloud, it would be an advantage."
"Cisco should strive to improve the software for its switches."
"We've had hardware problems like SSDs, ports, networking, things like that."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 40 reviews while Cisco Ethernet Switches is ranked 1st in Ethernet Switches with 29 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.6, while Cisco Ethernet Switches is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Ethernet Switches writes "Has impressive reliability, I have not experienced a failure ". Aruba Switches is most compared with Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Cisco Ethernet Switches is most compared with Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, D-Link Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. Cisco Ethernet Switches report.
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