We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and Juniper QFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco Catalyst Switches are very stable."
"This solution has a pretty good rate of not causing unexpected behavior or failing. We're using maybe 900 switches right now. And, rarely, if ever, something fails, it's dependable."
"The technical support is at an expert level."
"One good feature is UPOE. Another is having a built-in controller, the customer doesn't have to ask for another controller. For example, you get a built-in controller with the C650. And two-port is one of the premium factors from Cisco."
"The product is reliable."
"They have a robust monitoring system."
"It has the ability to create new services for users, such as IP phones and video conference."
"VLAN gives us segregation."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fabric backplane having upwards of 160 GB of communication. It is a top-of-the-rack solution where you have your directors sitting in the main area and then you have your nodes expanded out to your multiple cabinets. It has a very good design and could be your server backbone."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"It's user-friendly."
"The solution is stable."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The 40 gig backbone InterConneX was valuable for our use case. It is even faster now. QFabric has spine-leaf technology or topology, which basically makes every single hop only one hop away in terms of connecting from one device to another. It is a pretty good and robust solution. It works pretty well in terms of scalability, and their technical support is amazing."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"These switches should have better compatibility with software-defined technology."
"In terms of additional features or improvements, I would like to see more fiber ports, more security features, and perhaps the integration of wireless features into the switch."
"My company would prefer that the price was more cost-effective."
"Pricing mainly is the only issue."
"The licensing process should be back to how it was before. Now, you have to register online, and it makes staging a bit trickier."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It is not easy for everyone to configure the product's initial setup part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The general price of the solution could be cheaper."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"They are working on the virtualization of the actual fabric layer. They are moving away from the original spine-leaf design to a different infrastructure. Instead of having three tiers, which was the director of the interconnected nodes, they cut them back, and they still have that kind of structure."
"I do not use GUI's very much for switch stacks. I am always in the CLI. However, I do know that Juniper in the past has lacked on their GUI's, but they have been working on it."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper QFabric writes "Performs well, is easy to set up, and the vendor maintains the product well". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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