We performed a comparison between Huawei Ethernet Switches and NETGEAR 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."They have the ability, since they have a very big R&D team, to create an upgrade for any feature or patch very easily."
"Pricing-wise, Huawei is quite good."
"The velocity of the process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its network monitoring system."
"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."
"So far, so good when it comes to stability."
"They are very user-friendly. Handling Huawei is very easy."
"Huawei switches come in small, medium, and large capacities and can be used for monitoring and switching."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"Technical support is helpful and quick to respond."
"The company provides a lifetime warranty."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"The most valuable feature to me is the modular side of things, being able to replace a module and a transceiver at our beck and call. If something goes down, or a piece of equipment is broken, I don't have to replace the whole switch. I can just replace the part that's broken or the part that is no longer working. I can get them back up and working within a matter of minutes, versus having to replace everything and reprogram everything. It's a huge time-saver."
"It could potentially be difficult to get parts depending on where you live."
"Certain regulatory issues in a lot of countries cause limitations ."
"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."
"It is not easy to use if you need to monitor, patch or update. It needs to be configured by a network specialist because it doesn't have an overall central monitoring tool or anything like that. I'd say no ease of use."
"The knowledge base needs to be improved and expanded."
"Devices should have the ability to configure more easily."
"Deploying Huawei Ethernet Switches in an organization offers advantages, especially if the decision is made early in the process and the company opts for a single-vendor approach. This simplifies implementation and customization, often resulting in lower prices and tailored solutions from Huawei. However, excessive customization can lead to support issues and challenges in knowledge transfer during employee turnover."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement. It could be more stable as well."
"There's a lack of chips and, consequently, a lack of deliveries. They're out of stock at their European warehouse."
"The web interface has been a little sketchy on occasion. Sometimes I have to reload the page to get things to show up properly, but the switch itself seems fine. The web user interface is a little wonky at times."
"The technical support could be more helpful."
"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff. Instead of having some manual configuration for common features, they may want to have a single wizard that could be put in place which would let you walk through creating multiple VLANs and different routes between VLANs in a wizard. Then, you wouldn't have to dig in so deep."
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
"The M4250 switches needs more SFP models."
"I would like an email notification in case of errors or failures. If it was possible for the switch to email out an error log or notification note, especially in cases where we have the switches offsite (on the other side of town), then if something was to go wrong, it would be great to know about it before our client goes to use it for a big event, and it doesn't work. While I know that it does do SNMP, which is sort of standard, in the AV world, that is not always an option for us. We are usually running our own little network box and don't always have access to an SNMP server. We may just have simple Internet access or something similar."
"The tool's price could be better."
Huawei Ethernet Switches is ranked 13th in Ethernet Switches with 49 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. Huawei Ethernet Switches is rated 7.6, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei Ethernet Switches writes "The solution is power efficient, stable, and provides free-of-cost batch upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Huawei Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, HPE Ethernet Switches and Mellanox Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our Huawei Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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