Cisco Catalyst Switches

Any and all networking solutions are perfect for Cisco Catalyst Switches.

The fact that it is eight slots for users, so 384 ports making every port active in the hospital. So it's, that's where we use it extensively for connecting all our medical devices, users, wifi apps, and that type of thing.

I think it's handled a lot of traffic, so it's really nice that you have, you can have the complexity. So we use it like an access and core switches, so it handles a lot when we have it in the stack. So it handles a lot of traffic and it's on the core of the network so it handles all the traffic. So it's really nice.

It's well suited throughout because we pretty much depend on them because we have them in every location, all campuses, including our central office. No scenarios where it's less appropriate.

I think with the wide variety of different model options that you can use them in pretty much any scenario that you can think of. We use the families versions out on the football fields so we don't have to worry about those getting real hot in the southern heat. We use the big 93 hundreds in our M vfs IDFs. We use the smaller Ls in our can locations that we call 'em inside classrooms to help with network distributions. So really nothing they can't do.

I think this product is well suited to a larger network with more than 30 devices, whereas smaller networks with a couple of devices might be a little bit too much power or those types of networks.

I work for Navy training, so we use the switches a lot in the classrooms for students and it works great in that type of setting where usually a classroom is only 12 to 20 students in a class. So your 48 port can accommodate that and more, or in some cases even a 24 port switch can accommodate a classroom. So that's one of the great things about it and why it can be used real easy. One of the bad things about it is you have a 48 port switch in a classroom with 12 people. So you have three quarters of your switch not being used are three quarters of the portion not being used. You got 12 classrooms, you got a 48 4 switch, you got a lot of portion not being used. So that's kind of a drawback, but you take the good with the bad, I guess.

It's very well suited in our branch offices or our contact centers. It's not quite as well suited in our data centers because other platforms tend to be prevalent there. That's more than the Cisco Nexus lines.

Great for branch locations and simple networks.

I think this switch can probably be used in larger small enterprises because you can scale it to a smaller case if you have less users or if you want to scale it up to having more users as well. I think it has that flexibility, but I guess if you were a smaller company you could probably downsize to a smaller switch in the same line of Catalyst switches, but I personally think that the switch is pretty adaptable to a lot of different companies and enterprise systems.

It's well when connecting nodes and adding them to your network. It's a pretty solid product.

Pretty much we've been able to standardize across the board throughout our company using the Catalyst series. Issues we've had are smaller sites where they don't have much rack space. Switches are kind of large, so it's kind of hard to mount them properly, but I think we have workarounds usually to get around that.

One of our locations, I believe we have over 11. So they all need to be connected to the MDF, right? And instead of going with the modular switch, which is really expensive, 9300 has a 24-foot fiber switch, which does the job perfectly. So it's not breaking the bank, it's affordable. It's a bit of a hindsight price-wise, but it's still affordable compared to a couple hundred thousand dollars switches that this has. So with that switch, we were able to either connect all 12 locations without breaking the bank and without losing any throughput. Where it doesn't really fit is for the small size. We will have a location where you have maybe two access points and five employees. It sounds like a site you should put a headgear in, but you don't want to do that, right? That's where you kind of want to hybrid of a layer three, layer two, it's a bit on the expensive side because you need extra software to manage it and get an alert. That's where Meraki comes in and works well for the small remote locations. What I would like to really see as an improvement in a catalyst world is similar software for management like we have for Meraki dashboard. So it's easier to add. I like to keep it in one company instead of going with the different brands for management, why not use Cisco for everything if they ever do that.

They work really good as a stackwise pair to provide redundancy for a remote or local branch.

Cisco Catalyst Switches are well suited for pretty much any scenario where budget allows. If you are looking to deploy an SDA fabric, they are an absolute requirement. We utilize the Cisco Catalyst line of switches for everything from core campus to campus access layer. We also deploy the Cisco Catalyst CX line in our classroom podium deployments.

Cisco Catalyst Switches are great for environments where you need to leverage advanced features. May not be the best bang for your buck in a small office with low budget and low complexity.

Great for campus end user functions, integrates well with other networking hardware. Specialized cases such as environmentally hardened environments have limits for FED application.

Segmenting our network devices in to separate VLANS.

The Cisco Catalyst Switches are best suited for Core & Data Center switching. It's great for environments where high throughput is very important. It is not suited for a small home office.

It is best suited for access, PoE, distribution and core deployments that require wire-rate speeds. The downfall for the Catalyst 9000 is price especially when compared to the EOL Catalyst 2960.

There is a model that works for almost any application. The only time I would not recommend Cisco Catalyst Switches is for data center or for customers on a tight budget. In that case, it would be Meraki.

Good from the access layer up to the TOR in data center. Maybe not a good fit in the core.

If the business can afford, Cisco should be the go to solution when it comes to switching.

Data center, access sites.

Remote office network switches