We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches 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."The product is stable, and it performs well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is reliability."
"When it comes to Cisco Catalyst Switches, one can say that the legacy switches are stable."
"These switches are stable. They work well and are easy to use."
"Catalyst switches are easy to use and simple to work with."
"This technology is a completely mature technology and I don't think anything needs to be changed."
"It is a stable and good product. It is also easy to install."
"I have not opened up a ticket for Cisco Catalyst Switches. However, I have used the support from Cisco and they are very good and responsive."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to use."
"The solution helps transfer data."
"It's nice, if there is an issue, to be able to go in through the remote. The fact that the remote doesn't require a static IP... is nice. They initiate the contact to the outside world, without requiring a static to get in."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"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."
"The tool is very easy to deploy as it is a very basic switch."
"Needs to improve cloud services and mobile software."
"The solution could improve by adding a user-friendly GUI. We use third-party applications for log monitoring that are expensive and if Cisco could provide log monitoring as part of this solution it would be beneficial."
"The product could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is quite expensive for our clients. It's a pain point for some companies. They should work to reduce the price."
"Cisco forces end-users to accept billing for some capabilities or services that they may not want."
"Cisco has to lower the price of its products to make them more cost-effective."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"It can have more security features to secure the access layer."
"The web interface has been a little sketchy on occasion. Sometimes I have to reload the page to get things to show up properly, but the switch itself seems fine. The web user interface is a little wonky at times."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"The technical support could be more helpful."
"Support needs to be improved."
"The ‘how-to’ guides could do with some improvements. We got in trouble following the stacking and Dante set-up guides. If these would have been accurate, we would not have lost three days."
"What I'd like to see is more compatibility with virtual stacking, so that 4300-series switches and 3300-series switches will actually stack together and that virtual switch stacks, themselves, are not limited to just six devices, so that they can create larger loops with more bandwidth and more redundancy."
"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"
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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