We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Catalyst Switches wins out in this comparison. The solution offers great durability, reliability, and scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches are feature rich due to Cisco’s brand exposure in the marketplace and can be easier to manage and maintain due to the amount of certified professional users available in the marketplace today. Cisco is a technology that many organizations know to be extremely stable and robust and the Catalyst Switches are another great value-added product that organizations know they can trust.
"The most valuable feature is the interface, it's easy to configure. The command line uses a switch that gives us security."
"Catalyst switches are easy to use and simple to work with."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches are the best overall."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"The ability to configure throughput is very flexible and improved the performance of our systems."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches is very stable, configurable, and durable. It is also easy to manage."
"The product is also flexible."
"The pricing is quite competitive."
"HPE ProCurve offers a very good value proposition compared to that of other switches and is very energy-efficient."
"The product is robust."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates."
"HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"ProCurve is easy to configure and to know how to create each connection and configuration."
"The biggest barrier to buying Cisco or using Cisco is the price and also the competition with competitors and with Cisco partners."
"I would like to see a graphical user interface for the configuration."
"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."
"All other modules have comparatively many more functions or power than regular Catalyst switches."
"It would be good if Cisco Catalyst Switches could align maintenance with one version."
"Needs to improve cloud services and mobile software."
"In an upcoming release, adding SD-WAN capabilities would be a big advantage for our company."
"Cisco is dedicated to providing their customers with the latest technology, but it comes with a price. It's expensive when compared to competitors' products."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"If you make a change and you disconnect yourself from the switch, you will create an issue."
"The interface we have could be better."
"Since we transfer from one gigabit to ten gigabits of information, in a future release, it would benefit to have more high-speed ports."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"I would like to see integration with HPE OneView."
"HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 36 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. 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 ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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