We performed a comparison between HPE Ethernet Switches and Huawei Ethernet Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can scale the product as needed."
"We get a lifetime warranty for the solution so whenever the switches get faulty, you can get a replacement."
"The technical support for this solution has improved from what it was."
"The performance is great."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the interface and configuration. It's very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature in HPE Ethernet Switches is programmability and analytics."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."
"The solution performs well for its price."
"The affordability of this solution has been most useful."
"Huawei switches come in small, medium, and large capacities and can be used for monitoring and switching."
"Huawei Ethernet Switches excel in compatibility with other brands, offering features to ensure seamless communication with existing protocols. This allows them to work alongside switches from different manufacturers, such as Cisco, by making adjustments on both ends for compatibility."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei Ethernet Switches is the power ethernet which allows you to generate hubs to 10 Gbps data on the ethernet cable."
"They have the ability, since they have a very big R&D team, to create an upgrade for any feature or patch very easily."
"We use Huawei Ethernet Switches for business networks and connectivity."
"The most valuable aspect of Huawei Ethernet Switches is their excellent scalability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Installation could be made more secure."
"There could be features for ransomware attack detection and enhanced anomaly detection to identify and mitigate anonymous traffic."
"The solution could be more stable."
"It is not very stable."
"There is some improvement needed for the power supply of the solution."
"The only improvement I can think of is that it could be better with less updates."
"A lower price would be an improvement because we always want to reduce our costs."
"The product could always use better technical support."
"Connectivity is an area that needs improvement in the solution. Interconnectivity with third-party versions or Cisco Meraki should be made available to users in future releases of the solution."
"The solution needs to provide GUI commands."
"There needs to be more documentation. If they opened up a bit and shared more information and maybe allowed for YouTube videos about their products and how to work them, it would benefit the users quite a bit."
"The interoperability of the devices, in general, on the Huawei switches is not good and is known to be not good. Maybe they can improve this a bit."
"The stability could be improved."
"The licensing cost attached to the solution is atrocious, so from an improvement perspective, it should be made cheaper."
"The product should improve cloud capability."
"The knowledge base needs to be improved and expanded."
HPE Ethernet Switches is ranked 10th in Ethernet Switches with 94 reviews while Huawei Ethernet Switches is ranked 13th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. HPE Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2, while Huawei Ethernet Switches is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HPE Ethernet Switches writes "They're solid and can last for up to 15 years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Ethernet Switches writes "The solution is power efficient, stable, and provides free-of-cost batch upgrades". HPE Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas Huawei Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center and Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access. See our HPE Ethernet Switches vs. Huawei Ethernet Switches report.
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I think - HP is niche solution.
You could use it in DC environment, for example, in office net.
For choosing the best solution you should describe your project, your task, your goal, after that there should be understandable the best solution for exactly your case.
Depends on the purpose of the switch. There is a core switch and 2 access switches with a Wi-Fi switch.
The core switch is modular and perhaps more expensive….
Just depends what it is going to be used for. “fit for purpose” comes to mind.
Hi.
Never used either of them, but I did some research. What really matter here is for what type of network configuration and services you are going to use it for. If you need leyer 3 services like UDP helper function and a higher speed among other good features the HP 5412 is the one, if you only have a normal Ethernet network, with a normal traffic working mainly on leyer 2 you can go with the HP 2920. I hope this can help you.
Hi,
It entirely depends on your budget and requirement for IDC or End User.
While you select POE switch you need to be very careful on below points
1) assessing the capability to provision power of switch
2) How POE enable device can be connect to Access switch (limitation)
Above two points mainly left aside while selecting the POE switches by majority of the NW admins.
Also you can look for new series release by HP, which can be stack to 9 switch in a single stack.( HP 5130-48G-4SFP+ EI Switch)
However for Huwai, don’t have any idea.
Thanks & Regards
Ankit Shah
Hi there Avigail,
It really depends on use and budget. Those switches are quite different in many ways. The HP 5412zl (and btw, that model is EOL you should get the 5400-R series which was released a few months ago) is part of HP's "ProCurve" range (i.e. there pre-3Com acquisition). It's one of my personal favourite switches due to its versatility, reliability, performance and price. ProCurve switches have a CLI based on HP's licensing of Cisco IOS around 15 years ago which was then simplified so setting them up even in fairly complex environments is a snap. They also come with a lifetime NBD warranty so you can usually self-spare and not bother with hardware maintenance. It supports a number of core features such as IPv4/v6 (dual stack) routing (RIP/OSPF/BGP), VRRP and basic distributed trunking but it doesn't stack all that well.
The Huawei 7706 is a different beast altogether. Think of it as a clone of the Cisco 4500 series. It's far higher performance than the HP switch and allows 40/100GbE interfaces (the HP can only do 10GbE) as well as supporting true stacking and far more granular configurations. It's also somewhat more expensive and will require ongoing hardware maintenance.
The choice for core switch really thus comes down whether or not you need the advanced features and performance of the Huawei switch and are willing to bear their upfront and ongoing cost. If not then the HP 5400 is the winner. (NB: Huawei and 3COM have common routes so if you like the Huawei 7700 you might want to consider the HP Comware 7500 which is more or less identical).
The access switch is somewhat easier. The S5700 is way overkill for an access switch and no doubt cost a lot more. The HP 2920 series is a high-performance access switch which supports the fundamental technologies you need as well as easy stacking whilst the S5700 is better suited to a distribution switch where technologies like MPLS are required. HP also gets the nod for ease of configuration and pricing (paritcularly since the lifetime NBD warranty extends to all their stackable switches).
The wireless is a bit more complicated since those APs are somewhat different. The HP 425 is a dual-radio 2:2 MIMO 802.11n AP whilst the Huawei AP5130D is a single radio 802.11AC device. I'm not a fan of single radio APs since even a single slow client (i.e. 802.11a/b/g)/n will slow the AP down somewhat and it will be a long time before all clients are running 802.11AC.
I'm not a huge fan of the HP 425; it's a budget model and I much prefer the MSM460/466 (dual-n) or the 560 (n/AC) as being more powerful and versatile. I can't comment about alternate Huawei wireless as I am less familiar with their wireless products but they have quite a broad range.
With wireless, both vendors are very good so it somewhat comes down to the controller. The Huawei controller is very CLI focused (somewhat like Cisco) and - IMO - a bit of a pain in larger distributed deployments but it is very flexible and reliable. The HP MSM controller is quite a bit easier to configure and learn to use but it only scales to 800APs whereas the Huawei device can go much futher than that. Both vendors offer embedded controllers within their chassis switches but only HP maintains the free lifetime warranty.
Whichever vendor you choose make sure you include their management software (IMC for HP, E-sight for Huawei). Again these are both very similar - and very good - offerings. This will make management and troubleshooting of your environment much easier and more streamlined.
Probably the final consideration you need to make is the support offered by each vendor in your country and there - if you are not in Asia - HP probably has the advantage of having an extremely mature support and logistics model given there global presence and longevity.
I hope this helps, I've tried to be as unbiased as possible in my response.
Michael