We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus 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.
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"The interface is easy to use. It is not much different from iOS, but you can use it on a larger scale in data centers."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"We have a much more stable network now using the Cisco Nexus."
"It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"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 most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The solution is stable."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"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."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization."
"I would like to see some development into the SAE world where you can virtualize. That would be the only thing I would like to see because I need to start virtualizing my infrastructure gear at some of the other data centers that I have."
"The implementation process could be easier, which is something that should be improved."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"One of the problems we have is that there is no confirmation for when you try to test a system command."
"The initial setup was pretty complex, mostly because of our environment, having to do multi-context. That's where you have a lot of different logical routes that are in one physical device, and it can get kind of complex trying to think about how to set all that up. You really have to whiteboard it out a lot."
"The licensing is the area that we are working that's a challenge."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"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."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"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."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". 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 Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Nexus vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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