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What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?
Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.
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What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?
The Cisco Catalyst family of switches includes enterprise LAN access, distribution, and core switches. The vendor says the switches are designed for an entirely new era of intent-based networking, deliver stellar performance and functionality, and prepares a network for the future with breakthrough innovations for security, mobility, IoT, and the cloud.
Cisco Catalyst switches offer advanced security capabilities, scale for IoT, and cloud readiness.
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(1-25 of 412)Cisco Catalyst Switches key to k12
- Segmenting and vlan management across 50 sites
- Maintain high speed networks for demanding content
- Provide the backbone for thousands of wireless access points
- Pricing could be better
- Better integrated mass management of configs
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- The ease of use. So setting it up having dual soups, doing the ISSU upgrades for any time we do the image upgrade, the configurations, easy to get into it and make changes to the configuration. Normally we use SolarWinds for our config to push it for all the 4510s.
- I don't see anything hard to use on it really. It's a very easy SSH Intuit, do the commands using SolarWinds for doing the backup that we do, the backups from it. We also push large-scale changes to all the 45 tens from SolarWinds. We can do that all at one time and validate that the curtain new coags have been updated and look at the diff that's between the two configs. So it's a very easy switch that we work with.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- It handle a lot of traffic and you can segment it with the rear Fs and so it's really nice that you can have one box, but you can have many different segmentation. So it's good work.
- It's improvement with the security. When you think about algorithms with the SSH, because it's in Norway, we have to think about security levels and they recommend how the algorithm should be. And within Norwegian, I don't remember what his name is, but they recommend hire that the switches have, so we have to fail it. So they should be thinking about the higher algorithm like a ES to one. But it should go higher level because then we are safer. And think about the security function with the switches.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Being that we use it to do everything. Data, teachers use it for instruction, central office use it for business. Why We use a lot of the wireless throughout the system. So it's pretty much everything.
- Basically, nothing different. I mean, we're pretty satisfied with it. I don't see us going with anything else. Problems far and few.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Particularly well. It does help. It keeps up our network very well. We don't have any issues with the hardware at all that we've noticed. Sometimes it might be a power supply issue or something like that, but for the most part we have very low amounts of RMAs for anything for that, for our actual switches. But yeah, I would just say it's reliable and it takes care of the network well with limited issues.
- I don't know if I have any off the top of my head.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- I believe the features on the Cisco Catalyst Switch do well in switching and connecting devices together, counseling in to it, and applying various modes and options to the switchboards.
- I believe the area that this product has for improvement is the latency in which it takes to connect a switch together.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Well, they're easy to configure, easy to set up. I love the way that you can, the ability to stack multiple switches on top to get a high level of ports for your users. It's called stacking. You can stack one switch to say like 48 ports, take two of those. Now you have the ability to bring on 96 users to the network instead of going out and having to buy a bigger or chassis and then end up with a bunch of ports you're not using.
- I would like, one of the thing, I would like to see them change the SFP layout. I want to see how that evolves because the small form factor SSPs are getting smaller, so I would like to see that come across them to the switches as well.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Cisco is the industry standard in switching as well as routing. It provides both our routing and switching platforms for our agents.
- Primarily orchestration
- Automation
Cisco Catalyst Switches - Great line of products
- Long lasting
- Port density
- Poe density
- Depth of switch
- GUI
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- It's a pretty strong switch for our usage. It gives us a lot of benefits with routing protocols. Also able to leverage that. You can add modules to it so you can leverage the fact that you can have more users at a certain point. So the flexibility and using the different hardware components as well as the technology strengths that it provides for us.
- I think in a previous study that I've done, there's a little bit less wiggle room with how we could add cyber modules to it or even getting some of the transceivers with, I believe it was getting it to have single mode or multi-mode fiber modules. I could be wrong on that part, but I think it comes down to how it would support those modules.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- It works well in CML. No issues, connections are clean, no problems.
- Reloading switches on. CMLs kind of sometimes break, so sometimes you have to delete the node and recreate it. So that's kind of an issue I've dealt with.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Stays up and running. It's reliable. Haven't had any issues really with the Catalyst line.
- Noise wise. I mean they get fairly loud and fairly hot, so that'd be the only issue I could think of.
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- One thing that pops out right away is just the reliability. I can't really remember ever the 9300 series or just the overall 9000 series will fail out of nowhere or is become non-functioning. Just the reliability. Pretty much easy to configure it.
- Options: how many modules you can have, how many ports you can have. It feels like Cisco has sizes that fits all the needs, which we like a lot. So you don't have to oversize it because that's the only available option. You need less port, you need more ports. There is a model for every case. That's what really helps us.
- I think what I would like to see as an improvement is probably bigger difference between high end and lower end models. For example, 9300 and n9200s, they both pretty much do the same thing and sometimes it's hard to justify why do we need higher end models because the difference are not much. The biggest one is obviously the module. You can use 9300 supports way bigger modules than the 9200 ones. What I'm getting at, maybe introduced a lower end 9200 with even basic features that can be used just as layer two, similar to like 2960 that's going end of life. There is a similar 192L, but it does still have a lot of features, which I appreciate because some companies might not be able to purchase high-end licensing to use those, but it still kind of makes it senseless for us to purchase even the low end switches to use as a layer two. So I would like to see the bigger difference between these two much that.
Fantastic reliable and unmatched
- Long uptime
- Constant updates
- Stability in production network
- Reduce total unit weight
- High performance and high throughput switching.
- Flexibility through the use of containerized applications.
- Excellent m-gig port density.
- The Cisco Catalyst Switches 9k line is fairly high. A lower cost option like a 9200X would be an improvement.
- The Cisco Catalyst Switches 9k line lacks a higher port density fanless switch.
- More blade combinations for the Cisco Catalyst Switches 9k chassis switches are needed.
Cisco Catalyst Switches FTW
- Reliability
- Stable
- Integrate
- Stacking Features
Cisco Catalyst Switches General Review
- Reliable configuration
- Reliable uptime
- Conforms to DoD standards
- integrated series hardware for catalyst not TAA available
- optics can be expensive/limited options
Cisco Catalyst Switches review
- Route network traffic securely
- Segment our network
- GUI interface would be nice
Cisco Catalyst Switches Review
- Easy to configure
- Easy to stack switches
- High throughput
- Removal of Mandatory licenses
- Licensing model
- Better discounts for Renewals
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- Wire rate speed
- Good vlan and trunking performance
- Port channel support with third-party devices
- Mandatory licenses
Cisco Catalyst Switches - Long Live the King
- Reliable
- Stable
- Speed
- Licensing
Cisco Catalyst Switches for the Enterprise
- Flexible deployment options
- Redundancy of services
- Large feature set available
- Cost
- Simplified licensing
Fantastic
- vlans for network seperations
- Layer 3 functionalities for routing
- Durability
- Too noisy
Cisco Catalyst Switches review
- Variety types of ports, copper, fiber and multiple speed
- SPAN capability
- Can be used as the router as well
- Some more combinations of port types and speed
Cisco Catalyst Switches review
- Robust connectivity
- Easy configuration
- Support
- Stack related support