We performed a comparison between Cisco Cloud Services Router and Juniper MX Series Routers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Routers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence assessment models."
"It is definitely scalable. It can handle a lot more traffic and group work compared to any other products that I've evaluated. It could easily scale a lot more than what I'm doing right now."
"It integrates well with the other products we're using. We have it with multiple windows like Palo Alto, Arista and it easily integrated with them."
"This solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the SNMP traps that I use to monitor the router and the availability of the network."
"It handles stress very well. We have not reached a point of needing to worry about its capabilities."
"AWS has a reference architecture to enable the Cisco routers in high availability and Transit VPC. This is a very powerful router and can enable us to use Transit VPC in AWS, and this is a very powerful feature that we use."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Cloud Services Router is it can make your migrations smooth. For example, if you want to migrate to the cloud, but you don't want to change the IP. You can extend your VLAN from on-premise to the cloud without having to change the IP."
"The solution is quite stable. We've found it to be very good. There aren't bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"The solution is pretty easy to set up after a bit of training."
"Juniper Switches is stable, easy to use, flexible, and has good performance. Also, the technology is good. It has a lifetime warranty and the prices are also very good."
"It is a very stable product."
"In our company, we are integrators who create solutions for our customers. I find Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches to be suitable as it allows for easy configuration and offers features like SNMP. Personally, I find it convenient to switch from Cisco to Juniper EX because of my experience with various vendors like Huawei and Cisco. It's easy for me to read configurations from Cisco and transfer them to Juniper. Mainly, we work with customers who want to change or upgrade their network infrastructure, moving from vendors like Cisco, Aruba, or Huawei to Juniper for modernization. Juniper's features are more advanced, and it helps us meet the diverse needs of our customers. My role involves helping with the deployment and configuration of switching, access points, and Wi-Fi, for building robust and modern networks."
"Juniper Enterprise Routers has a CLR and it's more reliable and faster than others."
"Juniper's custom Trio chipset drives their MX routers, offering superior performance. Juniper's design separates the control plane and the forwarding plane, which is a key aspect of their architecture. This separation provides high throughput, maintaining line-rate performance across the MX platform."
"The flexibility of the MPLS configuration is very good."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The configuration is difficult."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve by having more features. It is lacking features, such as virtualization and containerization. Additionally, there should be increased security and connectivity between routers."
"I would like to see better security, where there are more access controls and data confidentiality."
"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"I would like some deployment examples and guides specific to AWS VPCs and how to separate your subnets. Then, how they tie-in with the Internet gateway and any NAT services that we are running on our VPC. This would be extremely helpful."
"A CAPEX/OPEX model, where the pricing model is subscription-based, would give much better flexibility for the customers. The pricing and model for Cisco Cloud Services Router and other Cisco products could be improved."
"Technical support could be better. I am missing a single pane of glass, where I can see all the connections, etc."
"It could grow or adapt to changes in the cloud. For example, cloud does not support autoscaling. When people want to grow, they have to do manual activities."
"The solution needs to offer SDN features."
"We'd like them to be capable of adding firewall options to the license."
"If you are setting up a site-to-site VPN between a Juniper and Cisco device then you may encounter some issues."
"One thing that the product can do better is clustering. Rather than just having two of them, it would help if there was one cluster to extend to more notes in the cluster itself."
"Better documentation to assist with implementation would be helpful."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. The product could be cheaper for smaller networks."
"The solution could improve by providing better training to allow more sales of the solution in the market."
"Currently, I don't have specific concerns or ideas for improvement. Regarding functionalities, I appreciate the user interface of Juniper Elite. Additionally, I'm exploring the use of Juniper Routers in a Parliament environment, particularly with Baragon, and so far, I find it to be a valuable feature. We're currently facing an issue as we're in the process of building and dealing with the software, specifically transitioning from R2 to RC. It's like when there is an update in the routers, and in the process, there are chances to end up losing some of your settings. The challenge arises because the recommended configurations for RC do not align with our features, necessitating a reevaluation of many features. It would have been more efficient if the initial recommendation had been for RC, avoiding the need to redo our research. This has resulted in a loss of time for us, and we've encountered this situation multiple times."
Cisco Cloud Services Router is ranked 8th in Routers with 17 reviews while Juniper MX Series Routers is ranked 3rd in Routers with 33 reviews. Cisco Cloud Services Router is rated 8.0, while Juniper MX Series Routers is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Cloud Services Router writes "Useful for smooth migrations, high availability, and simple deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper MX Series Routers writes "Good performance, long life span, and easy to set up". Cisco Cloud Services Router is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, HPE Enterprise Routers and Huawei Enterprise Routers, whereas Juniper MX Series Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Huawei Enterprise Routers, HPE Enterprise Routers and ExtremeRouting. See our Cisco Cloud Services Router vs. Juniper MX Series Routers report.
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