Arista Campus LAN Switches vs NETGEAR Switches comparison

Arista and Netgear are both solutions in the LAN Switching category. Arista is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.8, while Netgear is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. Arista holds a 5.6% mindshare in LS, compared to Netgear’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Arista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Netgear users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Arista Campus LAN Switches and NETGEAR Switches are competitive products in the LAN switching market. Arista has the upper hand in scalability and advanced networking features, while NETGEAR is often favored for its cost-effectiveness and user-friendly management options.

Features: Arista Campus LAN Switches offer high performance, extensive programmability, and network visibility, making them suitable for large campus environments. They provide a stable product with a lot of uplink interfaces and similar CLI standards to other major industry players. NETGEAR Switches provide simplicity with user-friendly interfaces and manageability, suitable for small to medium-sized networks with automated setup features, and also support managed and unmanaged options.

Room for Improvement: Arista Campus LAN Switches could improve by simplifying deployment to reduce the demand for professional expertise and addressing pricing for budget-conscious clients. Enhancements to user-friendly interfaces and ease for small-scale deployment would benefit NETGEAR, as would improvement in command line interfaces for advanced configurations and expanded availability to meet demands similar to larger competitors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arista provides a complex deployment model benefiting from professional network expertise, supported by comprehensive customer care. NETGEAR offers a simpler setup process and strong support network for users with limited technical expertise, focusing on straightforward installations and accessible support.

Pricing and ROI: Arista comes with higher upfront costs offset by long-term scalability and performance in large-scale settings, promising significant ROI. NETGEAR's lower initial pricing is attractive for businesses with budget constraints, offering good ROI through ease of management and broader reach in smaller operations.

To learn more, read our detailed Arista Campus LAN Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches Report (Updated: April 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Arista Campus LAN Switches

Ranking in LAN Switching

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NETGEAR Switches

Ranking in LAN Switching

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Ethernet Switches (4th), AV Over IP Switching (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Arista Campus LAN Switches is 5.6%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETGEAR Switches is 7.9%, up from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

LAN Switching Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NETGEAR Switches	7.9%
Arista Campus LAN Switches	5.6%
Other	86.5%

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Denis Malinovtsev

Chief Technology Officer at ictbit

Unified monitoring has transformed campus deployments and provides rapid EVPN-VXLAN rollouts

Regarding improvements to Arista Campus LAN Switches, nothing comes to mind about the switches themselves; they are really fast and have all the technologies and protocols that exist in the market. However, on the management system, I would improve it because as a network engineer, I want a chatbot that can communicate in a native language with the monitoring system to get answers regarding my network faults. There are no problems particularly with the product, but there is room for improvement regarding licensing and the chatbot for all Arista products.

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Tomas Devriese

Teamleader Av Installers at solufak

VLAN support has improved audiovisual installations and secures network traffic for our projects

Our major use cases include audiovisual installations and we mainly use the AV line for that. We work with the VLAN support feature The best things about NETGEAR Switches are the support they provide and the ease of implementation. The ease of installation helps with network performance. It helps…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The Software Defined switch architecture, runs optimized 2-tier network instead of traditional 3-tier network (Core, Distribution and Access) gives you efficiency and savings."

"The management portal has improved the way our organization functions."

"The most winning feature of Arista Campus LAN Switches is their management, specifically CloudVision, along with features like comparing changes and diagnosing problems quickly with telemetry and network visualization."

"The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."

"The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."

"Clients are very satisfied with the implementation process."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability because Arista falls in an industry that is very similar to Cisco."

"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."

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"There is a lot of helpful documentation that helps with the configuration process."

"We have a wide range of switches for various applications, including a collection specifically designed for ProAV, as well as Multi-gig Switches, which are also quite well-known or unique."

"Some of the Netgear Ethernet Switches are available in the market at a low cost, so they are easily available."

"Remote management is the most important thing for us. And monitoring, of course, allows us to see when something is wrong with a client. We get notified that an access point is down, for instance, or that there are too many clients on one access point, so that we can log into the portal and manage the solution with the client instantly, from either a laptop or a cell phone, with the Insight app."

"It's a great price-to-performance solution; I think it's singularly the best price-per-performance we can find, if not just straight performance to begin with."

"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."

"It is easy to implement and work with; it is easy to run, and it is a nice system to work with."

"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."

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Cons

"I think there's still room for improvement. Arista Campus LAN Switches are not highly scalable as they are hardware-based. If hardware requirements exceed capacity, the product needs to be changed, which can impact service."

"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."

"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."

"We have to renew the license every three years, which can be a challenge for customers. Arista, like other vendors, now follows a license-based system."

"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."

"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."

"I do think they could improve their licensing model. Today, I need to pay for a license, for a switch, for support, and it costs money; it is not cheap."

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"NETGEAR Switches could provide local technical support services."

"I find NETGEAR battling a little bit in comparison to Ubiquiti."

"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff."

"Even though I'm using it, I'd throw it down at a three out ten, because it is really bad that the status lights can't be seen from the front."

"The tool does not offer extra firewall security."

"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."

"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."

"They can improve on the commercial part, specifically the cost, as it is higher than other brands."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The only licensing costs are for CloudVision, although the upfront price of the device is not cheap."

"The price is not that good, but our clients value the solution despite the price."

"They're good value. They're good entry-level switches. I know Cisco generally has a lot more capability. But, for an organization this size, we don't need that. So they're good value for the cost and what we need."

"It's a great price-to-performance solution. I think it's singularly the best price-per-performance we can find, if not just straight performance to begin with... The cost of hardware and additional services is lower, absolutely. I wouldn't say "low," but we found it to be lower than other options, and that helps us resell this back to customers who are looking at other things like a Cisco Meraki..."

"I sold someone a SonicWall and they had to redo their subscription every year. It was a $300 or $400 subscription they had to pay every year... With NETGEAR... it's only a $10 or $20 subscription per device for the whole year... and you have your license and you have all your support."

"NETGEAR Switches can be considered a big brand, so its pricing point is a bit higher than that of some of the other players in the market."

"The solution is expensive. You need to pay the costs one-time."

"The pricing is phenomenal. It's not only good for the company providing the solution, but the customer gets a good deal too. There's a good profit margin for the business to be able to resell it to a client or to offer a good price to the client. It's a win-win for both the company providing this particular equipment to the customer and for the customer."

"In terms of the NETGEAR stuff, there weren't any surprises. The costs were definitely fair, especially considering what we were replacing. For the equivalent performance from a non-AV over IP solution, it would have been easily been in the $40,000 range. Comparing it to standard AV video switching, the price was very good, especially considering now they can add-on without any massive additional costs."

"The pricing is very good for 10GbE switches and you get a lot of throughput. It is about 60 percent of the costs of other switches from competitive manufacturers, which is really good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Marketing Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

University

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	43
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arista Campus LAN Switches?

Regarding pricing, it is not cheap. While it is an enterprise solution, comparing it to low-level switches like Fortinet and Netgear, it is much more expensive. However, comparing it to Cisco and J...

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What needs improvement with Arista Campus LAN Switches?

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What is your primary use case for Arista Campus LAN Switches?

I work as a consultant and integrator, using Arista Networks platform in my customers' networks. I deal with switches by Arista, which is mostly what we use Arista for. I am familiar with Arista Ca...

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How do NETGEAR switches compare with Cisco ethernet switches?

NetGear switches have a lot to offer. They have high availability, zero-downtime stacking, L2 and L3 functionality, and are AV-over-IP ready. NetGear switches also have a command line interface and...

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Which switches are better - Ubiquiti Unifi or Netgear?

Ubiquiti Unifi offers a great set of features. For starters, it is easy to configure and implement, and also doesn’t require a learning curve because it is easy to use. It is also simple to reconfi...

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What do you like most about NETGEAR Switches?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. I have not faced any issues with the product whatsoever.

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NETGEAR Insight Managed Switches, NETGEAR GC Series, NETGEAR M Series

Overview

Arista Campus LAN Switches offer efficient network integration and management, enhancing LAN deployment with superior telemetry and streamlined designs, delivering scalability and cost-efficiency.

Designed for effective deployment in network environments, Arista Campus LAN Switches utilize a Software Defined architecture that enhances network efficiency and provides savings with scalability. Responsible for fast EVPN-VXLAN deployment, these switches ensure superior telemetry capabilities while integrating seamlessly into networks through Arista EOS and open APIs. Their Quality of Service supports VOIP and critical applications. With CloudVision management and template functionality, deployment is simplified, reducing the need for excess hardware. Despite these advantages, enhancements in native language chatbot management, port options, and license renewal costs are desired by users. Scalability is affected by hardware constraints, and there is a call for faster delivery times and simplified setup.

What are the key features of Arista Campus LAN Switches?

CloudVision Management: Simplifies network operations through a centralized management platform.
EVPN-VXLAN Deployment: Facilitates rapid Layer 2 and 3 connectivity across the campus.
Superior Telemetry: Provides comprehensive network monitoring and insights.
Arista EOS & Open APIs: Ensures flexibility and interoperability within diverse networks.
Quality of Service: Optimizes performance for VOIP and critical applications.
Template Functionality: Reduces deployment costs through automated configurations.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces the number of switches required, saving operational costs.
Scalability: Enables effective network growth through software-defined capabilities.
Interoperability: Allows cohesive integration within existing network setups.
Productivity Boost: Simplifies maintenance and upgrades, leading to increased productivity.

Consultants and integrators utilize Arista Campus LAN Switches to enhance customer network environments, supporting both campus and data center needs. These switches are employed effectively by resellers for clients like community centers and are integral for system engineers managing Layer 2 and 3 connectivity. Deployment is streamlined using a controller-based template for efficient configuration across multiple sites.

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NETGEAR Switches offer ease of setup, low cost, and power efficiency. With robust remote management and modular designs, they are ideal for small businesses and large enterprises, ensuring reliable performance and flexible connectivity solutions.

NETGEAR Switches provide intuitive interfaces with both GUI and CLI options, supporting VLANs, multicast, and stackable configurations. Their competitive pricing, lifetime warranty, and powerful AV-over-IP capabilities make them a preferred choice. Despite their strengths, there is room for improvement in virtual stacking compatibility, feature expansion on the Insight portal, and consistent firmware management. A more refined remote management tool and enhancements in scalability and security are also needed. NETGEAR Switches' scalability serves sectors such as audiovisual, education, and healthcare.

What are the key features of NETGEAR Switches?

Ease of Setup: Simple installation process with user-friendly interfaces.
Cost Efficiency: Competitive pricing with valuable features for investment.
Power Efficiency: Designed to minimize energy consumption.
Remote Management: Offers robust remote and cloud-based control capabilities.
Modular Design: Flexible structures for easier network customization.
AV-over-IP Capabilities: Supports audiovisual transmission over IP networks.
VLAN and Multicast Support: Enhanced network segmentation and data transmission.

What benefits should be considered in reviews?

Competitive Pricing: Provides great value for a wide range of features.
Lifetime Warranty: Peace of mind with long-term support and coverage.
Reliable Performance: Consistent and stable network operations.
Scalability: Easily adjustable to fit growing business needs.
Excellent Technical Support: Backed by a knowledgeable support team to assist users.

IT service providers utilize NETGEAR Switches for small to medium business infrastructures, enabling 10GB internet and office network expansion. Models like M4300, GC728XP, and GC752XP are deployed for enterprise connectivity and Pro AV tasks in audiovisual, educational, and medical sectors, offering robust performance and management.

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Sample Customers

University of Winchester, AWE, picturemaxx, Medical Mutual, Leonix, CloudEra, National Physical Laboratory, Tri-State G&T, AIS, Morph, SingTel, SDSC, BBC

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