Part of a mid size healthcare system and my boss is looking for advice on switching switching platforms over the next ~6-9 months as our old Cisco gear needs to go. We got quotes from Cisco, Arista and Aruba. My biggest worry (may be unfounded) is switching away from Cisco during Covid could cause unnecessary instability. Any thoughts?
This is my current high level pro/con list is below. We do layer 3 at the core switches, L2 everywhere else with NAC assigned VLANs and 802.1x. Only need 1G at the access layer.
Cisco. Most expensive. What we know. TAC is pretty good. Not a good time do fancy DNA stuff but we will be paying for it...
Arista. Slightly cheaper. Seems very similar to Cisco. No experience with their support
Aruba. Much cheaper. Seems like it takes a better engineer to operate and work around the quirks. Their support blows from experience.
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