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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Business 350 Series

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Business 350 Series Managed Switches are presented as building blocks for the small business network, boasting an intuitive dashboard, advanced features, and pervasive security.N/A

    Cisco FabricPath

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ACisco's FabricPath is a brand of LAN switch.N/A
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    Cisco Business 350 SeriesCisco FabricPath
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    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco Business 350 SeriesCisco FabricPath
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Catalyst Switches
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Switches
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst Switches
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Switches
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Business 350 SeriesCisco FabricPath
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Business 350 SeriesCisco FabricPath
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    This is a small business switch, and for me, that means that if all I need is just this one switch, then I am on the right path. I would not want to use this switch to support a couple of hundred people trying to access heavy local resources. It should be used when you have a few dozen devices and/or users and a fairly flat network.
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    Cisco
    Cisco FabricPath seems to be well suited for larger datacenters where you need the scalability and flexibility that's provided. We've been able to provide our customers with much more bandwidth than they previously had throughout our datacenter and with applications generating much more east/west traffic now rather than large volumes of north/south traffic FabricPath and the nexus switches have given us the ability to provide our customers with the bandwidth that's needed to serve today's applications.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Good throughput per port
    • Good manageability
    • Reasonable price point
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    Cisco
    • It scales fairly well.
    • It's been fairly easy for people to learn and work with.
    • It has simplified network administration by utilizing Fabric Extenders which are all configured from the same switch and treated as an extension of the switch rather than as a separate entity.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Not every feature in the GUI is available at the command line
    • Software can only be updated via the GUI interface
    • It would be nice if the physical foot print were smaller
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    Cisco
    • We've had a few bugs that have caused random reloads of switches when modifying VLANS.
    • We've had a bug that reloaded an entire fabric at once.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We are a big Cisco shop and wanted to use Cisco switches for this application. We knew that we'd be able to configure them quickly and the time saved doing the configuration would be to our benefit. Knowing that we wanted to go with a fully managed switch also was a major tipping point in Cisco's favor. Having used some of the other vendors' "managed" switch interfaces, nothing comes close to Cisco's approach. Having a better user interface will give us plenty of time down the road.
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    Cisco
    In comparison to Cisco ACI, Cisco Catalyst, and Juniper EX Switches the Nexus switches have stood their ground and we've been fairly happy with them. I like that similar to Cisco's ACI and the Juniper EX switches that I've worked with I can manage multiple chassis from one place. ACI can do this on a much larger scale though. I think Juniper limited the number of devices in a single virtual chassis to 10 or less depending on the device type. ACI can do a few hundred leafs plus their fabric extenders so if you're looking for one place to manage all your devices it can scale well beyond either the Cisco FP or Juniper EX series switches, but it also has a much steeper learning curve and completely different interface. The loop prevention built into FP has been a great improvement vs our old Catalyst switches.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We replaced thirty older switches for very little capital investment.
    • The new devices are compliant with our security needs, so we quickly cleared those issues.
    • The new switches were very easy for us to apply a standardized configuration that allowed us to get them up and operational in minutes.
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    Cisco
    • FabricPath is easy enough to learn that the adoption on the team has been fairly quick. This allows us to quickly troubleshoot and allows us to meet and beat SLAs that demand we maintain 99.99%+ uptime for our paying customers.
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