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 scalability is good."
"The product is very robust."
"The Cisco software ties all the hardware together better than the competition."
"This technology is a completely mature technology and I don't think anything needs to be changed."
"If we lose some network connections, the system automatically creates new connections between equipment."
"The CLI is pretty much the same across all switching and routing platforms from Cisco, making deployment of new switches, replacement of damaged equipment, or upgrades to newer platforms very easy."
"The product’s scalability and performance are valuable."
"Their technical support is good, one of the best in the industry."
"It's easy to manage and configure. The configurations can be exported and imported to another solution."
"The user interface is simple to use."
"The pricing is quite competitive."
"The LAN features give us exactly what we need."
"The product's stability is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"HPE ProCurve offers a very good value proposition compared to that of other switches and is very energy-efficient."
"We have found the solution to be entirely stable."
"Cisco should support all of the features that are included with the suite."
"It should have better security and the prices can always be lower. The cheaper the price, the better but if the quality is good, it's worth it. They also have to improve the firewalling."
"I would like to see a graphical user interface for the configuration."
"Their centralized management could be better. There should be some kind of software for centralized management so that I don't need somebody else to manage it."
"I would like to see support for one-touch provisioning."
"Its price should be improved. It is very pricey."
"The product must improve its security."
"t is one of the most expensive solutions."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"Our customers are focused on features and generally, they would like to have a more feature-rich solution."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
"One of the weakest points of this solution is its on-premise. We are not able to do all we need to with the CLI."
"We do occasionally have issues with the solution and need to change out the switches sometimes. This can be due to the fan, but, in most cases, it's because the power supply was broken."
"A few areas included in the network performance managers can be integrated into the solution's dashboard since it is the only area with a few concerns."
"The solution should offer different gigabit interfaces. Right now, they have ten gigabits. However, for our needs, we only need one gigabit. We don't need 24 or 48 ports. We only need eight to ten. HPE should introduce into their portfolio some smaller and more compact options."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 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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