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Competitive comparison Cisco public Switching Competitive Comparison Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Innovations Investment protection with custom silicon Cisco custom silicon Limited Limited Switching platforms Unique and helps ensure enterprise Multiple vendor Huawei ENP lags in are based on merchant powerful UADP feature robustness, acquisition history terms of capability when silicon, limiting flexibility ASIC offers platform longevity, and makes the product lines compared with the and functionality. industry-leading investment protection. inconsistent, with short Cisco UADP. Huawei features and life spans. A majority of is missing high-speed functionality. switching platforms are stacking interface, merchant silicon-based lacks performance and with limited flexibility. flexibility, lacks packet- processing flexibility, and is short on full visibility of data flows. Cloud-Managed Cisco Meraki Dashboard Cisco Meraki Dashboard can provide is an open and a superior extensible software- customer based architecture experience that accelerates and and simplify optimizes enterprise business network operations. operations. Multigigabit technology Give customers Cisco Multigigabit Limited Limited switches Technology can prepare HPE offers equivalent Multigigabit up to for Wi-Fi 6, customers’ access multigigabit technology, 2.5G only in some 802.11ac Wave networks for future Smart Rate, which is switch models. 2, and beyond. innovations by delivering limited to a couple of speeds of 1G, 2.5G, product platforms and a and 5G on existing limited number of ports. Category 5e/6 cables. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Innovations Application Visibility and Control (AVC) Cisco access switches Limited Limited Recognize and can inspect traffic and HPE switching Limited SLA monitoring service more application flows to platforms are limited with Huawei iPCA. than 1400 help enforce network to simple, basic traffic applications. access policy and classifications and policy Differentiate protect against attacks enforcement with ACL. between with Cisco IOS Flexible These platforms are nonencrypted NetFlow, DNS-AS, also limited by their lack and encrypted NBAR, and Cisco DNA of memory capacity in apps to Assurance. access switching. help ensure appropriate treatment of business-critical traffic. Converged infrastructure: Consistent Use Cisco Prime Limited Limited automation Infrastructure to centrally HPE uses SDN Huawei’s SVF does not across provision WAN-path controllers and provide true network WAN, WLAN, selection with IWAN and AirWave for automated convergence. and wired security, encryption, deployment of networks. app visibility, and control infrastructure of Aruba Deploy a new with Cisco DNA Center switches only. For a branch online, and Cisco TrustSec. single pane of glass, or roll out a HPE uses IMC for the new application original HPE switches policy within but does not support minutes using AirWave. a single pane of control and true network convergence. Monitoring by endpoint type Monitor Cisco can use analytics Limited Limited and classify to monitor behavior Aruba offers very iPCA is offered as an behaviors of with Stealthwatch and limited functionality. option but provides devices and NetFlow, and classify Tunneled Node is limited platform support data that are traffic on the edge and offered as a catch-all and visibility. critical to inside the network with solution that cannot identifying TrustSec. scale. problems. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Innovations Support new capabilities without major Through the integration Limited Limited No wireless platforms, upgrades of custom ASICs, No support for modular No current support for and switching Avoid major UADP, and access APs. Switching platforms modular access points platforms are based on upgrades by point modularity, Cisco use a custom ASIC with that support location- merchant silicon. leveraging offers support for new limited extensibility. based analytics and existing innovations. beacons/BLE. Only access points, the AP4050DN has controllers, some modularity for IoT and switches use cases without performance impact. Agility Improve experience for Apple users Cisco and Apple have Limited Limited Promote a joined efforts to provide Functionality can only Functionality can better user better user experiences be supported through be supported only experience for Apple device manual QoS prioritization through manual QoS for business- users connected to a and Wi-Fi standards. prioritization. relevant Cisco network. applications on all Apple devices. High availability Cisco switches offer Limited Support redundancy innovative ISSU Huawei claims ISSU on for business features, GIR, and some of its switches. resiliency. hot-standby N+1 redundancy in stacks, as well as redundant power and fans. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Agility Consistent application performance Through best across the practices, Video QoS network provides a simplified Help ensure method of delivering voice and video end-to-end QoS. experience across a network automatically, without IT intervention. Detect and set features to new devices Through Cisco Auto Limited When IP Smartports, devices are HPE can detect and phones, dynamically detected set characteristics on cameras, and ports configured an AP attaching to an access points, based on the device type HPE switch, but cannot or other devices detected on the port. detect other types of connect, devices. configurations such as QoS, VLAN, and security are automatically applied. Power resiliency for IoT and other Cisco offers Persistent Limited Limited devices PoE, Fast PoE, and HPE offers basic PoE/ Huawei supports PoE Get an Universal PoE while PoE+ (30W) support, and PoE+ PoH (95W) on always-on providing multiple-level and supplies 1:1 a single S5700 platform. environment for redundancy through power redundancy via Power redundancy is IoT and other StackWise. dual power supplies 1:1 PoH (power over devices that supported in a limited HDMI) (95W) on a single are powered number of switches. S5700 platform. via PoE, even when the switch reboots. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Security Integrated security Be consistently Cisco switches offer ahead of the advanced security game to secure features such as Cisco the network. TrustSec, Network as a Service (NaaS), Cisco Network Security Analytics, Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco Identity Services Engine, Encrypted Traffic Analytics, Network as an Enforcer (NaaE), mDNS gateway, and MACsec-256 link encryption. Threat detection Help eliminate threats Limited Rapidly eliminate across the network HPE offers sFlow, threats across with Cisco’s security ClearPass, and Tunneled the entire solutions. Products Node to support security network (wired include Stealthwatch, across wired and and wireless) TrustSec, Trustworthy wireless. from a single Solutions, Encrypted place. Traffic Analytics, Identity Services Engine, and Rapid Threat Containment. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Security Intent-based networking for availability, Centralize and automate Limited agility, network design, policy, and policy Aruba Tunneled Node and provisioning of segmentation is offered as a catch- all wired and wireless all solution, but it Intent-based networks with Cisco cannot scale. networking DNA Center. improves network availability and agility. Streamlines end-to-end network lifecycle management through automated design, implementation, and operation and advanced network assurance. Download Gartner report. Services for switching Depth Provides end-to-end Network Infrastructure Limited Network Life-Cycle custom service offers, Services span the Services feature Huawei has a small with expert guidance entire lifecycle, advisory, custom range of differentiated for accelerating with key Advisory implementation, testing, planning, design, and deployment and and Professional onsite technical, implementation services, transitioning to a Services that include remote operational, but no clear or extensive new or expanded implementation, network maintenance, remote messaging related to Cisco Catalyst series improvement, pre- managed, education, switching services. switching portfolio. deployment strategy, and certification deployment, and services for switching integration for Aruba support. Juniper switches. recently acquired Mist Systems for Wi-Fi and indoor location services, which supports 802.11ax- ready cognitive Wi-Fi switches. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Competitive comparison Cisco public Cisco HPE Huawei Juniper Services for switching Level of network expertise Cisco experts perform Limited Limited Juniper offers an for ease of services such as Cisco Enterprise Switching adoption and HPE assists with Huawei offers several DNA Advisory Service, QuickStart program deployment deployment of Aruba downloadable Quick SD-WAN and SD- to help ensure a AirWave as its WLAN Guides, including Quick Access Advise and customer solution is management system for Start, Configuration, Implement Quick Start, operational. An onsite network management Maintenance, and and Solution Support, consultant develops and monitoring Upgrade guides. the primary point of the initial configuration requirements. HPE contact for all issues and deployment of a also assists with including third-party switching environment. the implementation, network environments. A knowledge transfer configuration, and Cisco also provides session, including integration of the versatile cross- a review of local predefined management architecture capabilities implementation and and monitoring design that incorporate Network configuration options, and prepares it for Optimization Services for is available but is not operation with the SD-Access, Cisco DNA, intended as a substitute customer’s network. SD-WAN, networking, for training. WLAN, and security. Security Security Segmentation, HPE Security Risk Network Security Design Advisory security a workshop-based Management and Digital Service leverages a services include a service, creates a Protection Services continuously updated Security Intelligence segmentation strategy include a workshop database and six Readiness Evaluation, aligned with business based on knowledge management and which provides objectives. The service and experience with control technologies information that helps reduces risk by new technology to provide designs thwart cyber attacks. applying security and megatrends, risk and for access security, It assesses site design policy controls across threat management, transmission security, and architecture for compliance, threat and protection models data security, access potential vulnerabilities, detection, content to align business needs behavior control, and while preparing a security, data loss and priorities. It provides audit compliance. The summary of the prevention, and other a structured walk- network is properly assessment and security disciplines. through of concepts and divided into several recommendations. These controls help models for protecting security domains, based protect data and the digital enterprise. on customers’ business intellectual property and network-security- from internal and protection requirements. external cyber attacks. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go to this URL: https://www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R) C96-742222-00 04/19
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