We performed a comparison between Arista Campus LAN Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"We have dealt with Cisco's technical support in the past. They were especially helpful and very polite. They are always there if we need them and their insights are always excellent. I would say that we have been satisfied with the level of support we've gotten so far."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, it's easy to configure. The command line uses a switch that gives us security."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is easy to implement and quick to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco equipment is reliability."
"They have a robust monitoring system."
"The solution is good for computation and backup."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"Pricing for this product is on the higher end, and is something that could be improved. Security could also be increased."
"The licensing process should be back to how it was before. Now, you have to register online, and it makes staging a bit trickier."
"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."
"The biggest barrier to buying Cisco or using Cisco is the price and also the competition with competitors and with Cisco partners."
"These switches should have better compatibility with software-defined technology."
"To make it a ten they should simplify the licensing, add the cloud-managed feature, and it should be more cost-effective."
"The tool is not user-friendly."
"We'd like Cisco to integrate with other solutions, including their own."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series. See our Arista Campus LAN Switches vs. Cisco Catalyst Switches report.
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