We performed a comparison between HPE 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."The scalability is very good."
"The speed is very fast."
"The initial setup is straightforward. The steps are simple, and you can always contact support if needed. Overall, it's easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."
"The solution is easy to set up and easy to use, unlike, for example, Cisco, which is more complex."
"The solution is scalable."
"We use HPE Ethernet Switches to provide solutions for the hotel, their guests, and IPTV."
"The best feature of this solution is the lifetime warranty."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The company provides a lifetime warranty."
"The solution is stable."
"SFP, speed, and 10-Gigabit are the most valuable aspects of this solution. We're an architecture firm and we sometimes deal with large files. Anything we can do to eke out even a fraction of a second less time to get something done over the course of a year adds up. If I can get 10-Gigabit running in my server room, which I am right now, even though we're only gigabit to the desktop, due to the client computers we have, I can get more performance from everybody. I'm ready to start bringing in 10-Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop once I get the hardware to do that."
"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."
"One of the biggest benefits of the remote management is that it's easy to use and you can use it from a mobile device or tablet with the app they've developed... If one of my engineers is out in the field at a client and an alert comes in from another client, that engineer can take that alert and look at it in real-time."
"As far as remoting into it goes, it is very efficient because I can do it from anywhere, through the remote software. I can get right into it, I can change settings really quickly, if a customer needs to add another device into it or if I need to make changes on the VLANs that we created."
"You are not limited in terms of stacking ports, and especially, if you're using the 96X as a core switch, the scalability, I could see this being very large. If you're using a type of a hybrid topology with a core switch going out to multiple switch stacks, or something like that, I could see the scalability of this being very good, especially considering the kind of backplane switching capacity on the 96X."
"I would like to see the initial setup become easier."
"The solution’s licensing could be improved."
"The solution is very comparable to Huawei, however, it could be more scalable. Huawei is easier to scale."
"It's gone up in price in the last 12 months."
"The ability to stack, as well as a unified operating system, would be extremely beneficial."
"The only improvement I can think of is that it could be better with less updates."
"There could be features for ransomware attack detection and enhanced anomaly detection to identify and mitigate anonymous traffic."
"It would be ideal if the product offered more security."
"The technical support could be more helpful."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"One area that has room for improvement, and I know NETGEAR is working on it, is adding more features to the products lines in terms of what we can manage through the Insight portal... not all Layer 2 or Layer 3 settings are there yet."
"This product lacks a CLI interface."
"The scalability and warranty should also be improved."
"Netgear switches could be cheaper."
"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."
"The tool does not offer extra firewall security."
HPE Ethernet Switches is ranked 10th in Ethernet Switches with 96 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. HPE Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Ethernet Switches writes "Allows to monitor all the switches online so we can see what is happening and offers good security features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". HPE Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, H3C Ethernet Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and Brocade Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Cisco Ethernet Switches. See our HPE Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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