The document compares Cisco Systems and Huawei Technologies, highlighting Cisco's established position in networking devices and Huawei's rapid growth as a competitor in telecommunications equipment. It details their founding dates, headquarters, product offerings, and revenue figures, showcasing Cisco's popular Catalyst and Nexus switch series versus Huawei's campus and data center switches. Additionally, the document outlines differences in command syntax between the two companies' switch configurations.

1. Cisco Switches
VS
Huawei Switches

2. Company Comparison
Cisco System is one of the biggest
multinational technology conglomerate in
the world for decades. Its network devices,
such as routers, switches, firewalls… are
popular in their customers. We can believe
that Cisco will develop stronger, but new
competitors are arising, like Huawei.
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a
Chinese multinational networking and
telecommunications equipment and services
company headquartered in Shenzhen,
Guangdong. It is one of the largest
telecommunications equipment manufacturer in
the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012.

3. Name Cisco Systems, Inc. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Birthday December 10, 1984 1987
Founders Leonard Bosack
Sandy Lerner
Ren Zhengfei
Headquarters San José, California, U.S. Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Products Networking Device
Network Management
Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software
Interface and Module
Optical networking
Storage area networks
Wireless, Telepresence, VOIP, Security
Datacenter
Mobile and fixed broadband networks,
consultancy and managed services,
multimedia technology, smartphones,
tablet computers,
dongles
Revenue US$49.24 billion (2016) US$60.839 billion (2015)
Number of employees 71,883 (2016) 170,000+ (2015)

4. Switches Series Comparison
• Cisco switches have many series. The popular series, enterprise
switches, are Catalyst series and Nexus switches. Cisco Catalyst series
includes 2960 series, 3650 series, 3850 series, 4500E series, 9000
series etc. Cisco Nexus series includes 9000, 7000, etc.
• Huawei switches also have various series. There are data center
switches, campus switches and SOHO & SMB switches. The popular
one is the campus switches. In all the campus switches, the S5700
series is the hottest switches in enterprises.

5. Product Code Rules

7. CLI Commands
Cisco switches commands Huawei switches commands
Configure terminal system
disable NONE
enable NONE
end Return
exit Quit
interface{interface-type interface-number | interface-name} interface{interface-type interface-number | interface-name}
no interface {interface-type interface-number | interface-name} undo interface {interface-type interface-number | interface-name}
router rip Rip
Router ospf enable ospf [enable]
Router bgp as-number bgp [as-number]
show history-command display history-command
clock set hour:minute:second day month year clock hour:minute:second day month year
hostname hostname Sysname sysname
setup Setup
show clock display clock
show hostname display sysname
show processes cpu display processes cpu
show processes memory {all | blksize size}[detail] display processes memory {all | blksize size}[detail]

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