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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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