We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE A-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Arista, Dell Technologies and others in Data Center Networking."Perpetual POE is a valuable feature, because when the switch reboots, access points do not."
"Catalyst switches are highly stable and easy to use. It's a technology well known by most engineers."
"I never had downtime with Cisco Catalyst Switches in the last eight years, and I'm pretty impressed with its reliability."
"The warranty and continued firmware support are most valuable."
"Customer support answers on time and resolve any issues I have."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuring a switch."
"VLAN gives us segregation."
"We find the product very easy to configure."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface needs improvement. Meraki has a much nicer UI. Cisco could learn a lot by looking at them. It might make them a bit more user friendly."
"It is not easy for everyone to configure the product's initial setup part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Compared to other switches, the Cisco products are expensive."
"The general price of the solution could be cheaper."
"I use the Cisco Catalyst Switches command-line interface(CLI) a lot out in the field, but there are some web interfaces features that are available that I haven't used very much. I'm more comfortable with the CLI, but the web interfaces are very lacking."
"There are multiple operating systems across Cisco's portfolio, which is problematic."
"They need to simplify the Web GUI and make it easier to use, and more intuitive for the users."
"Services should be improved."
"Some follow up from our user-partners would be useful. Letting users know what is up and coming or providing better documentation would be helpful. Overall, the solution could offer its users better support."
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Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in Data Center Networking with 171 reviews while HPE A-Series is ranked 9th in Data Center Networking. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE A-Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE A-Series writes "Stable and scalable with a good user interface". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and ExtremeSwitching, whereas HPE A-Series is most compared with Cisco Nexus.
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