Dell PowerConnect Switches [EOL] vs Dell PowerSwitch N-Series comparison

"The product is cheap."

"The solution’s technical support is good."

"The most valuable features are the jumbo frames and the stacking."

"We have these switches installed in an environment with hardware from many other vendors, and so far, so good."

"Dell PowerConnect Switches are very easy to configure with the GUI. Dell supports the solution even though it has been discontinued."

"The functionality is very good."

"Dell PowerConnect Switches are easy to configure."

"When the price is competitive the customers tend to choose the cheaper brand and then look at the features. So having a competitive price is a plus."

"For a customer, it is easy to configure and to add ports through the LAN the GUI."

"The automated configuration management tools of Dell PowerSwitch N-Series help improve network traffic management."

"Port density and port speed performance are both suitable. It has some appealing intangibles."

"The one issue you face in the industry there is always some planned obsolescence in these switches."

"The pricing could always be a bit lower."

"When it comes to the configuration, there should be documentation and interactive help available to assist people who have experience with products from other vendors."

"Not a ten because I have to do a lot of testing on it. The correlation is okay."

"There should be more port options in this switch. Currently, it has 24 or 48 ports. However, some of our customers require only 8 ports, but I have to put a switch with 24 ports. They should provide smaller solutions and complimentary access point for companies like ours with a low quantity of work. The main issue with this product is branding. They should improve their branding and promote their brand more in Mexico. Customers are more aware of brands like Cisco as compared to Dell."

"Dell is sometimes slow to provide updates to firmware."

"The product needs to improve in terms of reports and backups."

"More stable firmware releases would be an improvement because we have had them randomly power on and off."

"Customers do not prefer this to connect to multiple cities."

"Instead of competing at the enterprise level with that product, they should probably scale it. With all of the ports, they should develop a good mid-level business to truly scale it and gain adoption before attempting to go after the enterprise."

"Inexpensive"

"I would rate the pricing as a seven or eight."

"The product is cheaper than Cisco and licensing is yearly. We have to pay additional costs for support."

"In my opinion, it is a product that is priced somewhere in the middle, making it a well-priced solution in the middle. It is not a very cheap product."

"Dell PowerConnect switches are cheaper than Cisco switches. Cisco's higher capacity switches (100 or 200 gigs) are super-expensive. With the higher capacity, the price of the switches and the price of the architecture go high. Dell is cheaper and modular. So, I don't need to invest 100% upfront. I can invest as I progress. That is an option because the chassis will not be populated with all the pluggables. I have a choice because it is modular. I can go for 25 gigs today, and after four months, I can go for 100 gigs, and after that, I can go for 200 gigs. I have a choice when it is not a fixed switch."

"The price of these switches is okay."

"Cheaper than its competitors"

"The initial cost was high but since they have lasted for over ten or twenty years they are worth it."

"You are selling it to larger customers and in larger environments, where it's a less expensive model than Cisco, which is attempting to use the same approach Arista did, but with a completely different programming language."