We performed a comparison between ExtremeSwitching and NETGEAR 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."Setup was easy. It only took a couple of hours to set up."
"Our vendors are great and they offer very good support services."
"The switches are fast."
"The price is low compared to the competition."
"The solution excels in configuration and other aspects. It offers reliability and performance."
"The product offers a single management platform for multiple models of switches. The tool also allows users to manage multiple sites from a single dashboard."
"The stability has been largely pretty good."
"It is meeting our expectations in terms of performance as well as cost-effectiveness."
"The remote troubleshooting is pretty easy. You can turn off a port that might have a network loop created, or where there might be a bad NIC card that is creating issues. Being able to turn off that port remotely is fantastic, instead of having to replace the whole switch. Remote management is really easy."
"For what I used this switch for, it did well."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"The cloud management has just been huge for us. We have 80 clients and they all have switches... With the cloud-managed Insight ones... we know more information without having to do complicated SNMP traps. We get nice emails, we get a web interface, and we're not having to wait for our RMM tools to get SNMP traffic to notify us. We don't have to do complicated configurations."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"Since it has a web interface, it is easy to set up. You don't have to take three years of training somewhere for a lot of money."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"We have one client that has three Insight switches and when we make a change to their network... we can make the configuration change and push it down to all three switches at once. We don't have to individually log on to each switch to make the change."
"ExtremeSwitching is scalable to a certain extent for SME-segmented IP."
"I believe they should be more aggressive in terms of pricing."
"It could be cheaper in general."
"The interface could be improved."
"Their pricing could be a bit cheaper, as Huawei switches offer better pricing."
"Extreme Networks does not have any entry-level products. This is a problem for them because Aruba has an Instant On series, which is new and cost-effective. Cisco also has the 1000 series, and other brands offer entry-level products."
"The solution lacks a cyber asset attack capability."
"There are latency issues that need to be addressed."
"There are a lot of systems that are moving into different areas. There are a lot of cloud-based things happening. One nice feature that I've seen in other switches is artificial intelligence on the actual porting. They've got AI technology that will tell you when a port is down. They not only tell you when a port is down; they also tell you when a port is running slower. You can do a cable-fault check, or you can do other checks. It would be nice to have this information in NETGEAR. This feature might already be there in a new release of the NETGEAR's firmware, but I haven't seen it."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
"The tool needs to improve its network management. The tool can be also more simplified."
"The solution needs centralized management and centralized configuration."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"One thing I have asked for, something that NETGEAR lacks that I would love to see — and from what I understand it's in the works — is a REST API to programmatically interface with multiple switches. That would be a great feature."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
ExtremeSwitching is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 18 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. ExtremeSwitching is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco Nexus, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our ExtremeSwitching vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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