We performed a comparison between Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Junos operating system."
"The security is good."
"I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10 for scalability."
"The performance is very good."
"The solution has a high level of network functionality."
"The most valuable features of Juniper Ethernet Switches are the simple configuration and ruggedness."
"I like the simplicity of it."
"The remote troubleshooting features provide a single pane of glass where I can see my all my clients' equipment. If they're reporting a problem, I can go to the Insight Pro interface online and I can bring up that client and I can see all their devices and the status of all their devices."
"We have a wide range of switches for various applications, including a collection specifically designed for ProAV, as well as Multi-gig Switches, which are also quite well-known or unique."
"The cloud management has just been huge for us. We have 80 clients and they all have switches... With the cloud-managed Insight ones... we know more information without having to do complicated SNMP traps. We get nice emails, we get a web interface, and we're not having to wait for our RMM tools to get SNMP traffic to notify us. We don't have to do complicated configurations."
"Remote management is the most important thing for us. And monitoring, of course, allows us to see when something is wrong with a client. We get notified that an access point is down, for instance, or that there are too many clients on one access point, so that we can log into the portal and manage the solution with the client instantly, from either a laptop or a cell phone, with the Insight app."
"Their online portal is one of the most useful features. The portal is very user-friendly, so even someone with not a lot of tech experience can go in and see what's going on with the switch."
"Technical support is helpful and quick to respond."
"The solution is reliable and it is easy to setup."
"The tool is stable."
"Juniper Ethernet Switches' tech support is hard to reach and slow."
"Juniper should improve the support services provided to users, as it is one of its areas with certain shortcomings."
"The only issue that we have with Juniper Ethernet Switches is the firmware because it is not stable."
"The stability could be better. We find, for example, Cisco, to be more stable."
"We need to start seeing some kind of AI to assist with some of what we really want to accomplish from a policy standpoint to achieve better efficiency."
"EX switches take too long to boot when we restart them for maintenance. We need to minimize downtime. Another issue is the command line interface. Juniper's commands are different from other switches, so it's hard to remember them."
"They could improve the code, as there are some issues with it."
"The solution is a bit costly compared to other products."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can be improved."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"There is a technical problem they can't seem to solve. It doesn't support multicast packets. In layman's terms, Mac computers can't print over the network."
"There are a lot of systems that are moving into different areas. There are a lot of cloud-based things happening. One nice feature that I've seen in other switches is artificial intelligence on the actual porting. They've got AI technology that will tell you when a port is down. They not only tell you when a port is down; they also tell you when a port is running slower. You can do a cable-fault check, or you can do other checks. It would be nice to have this information in NETGEAR. This feature might already be there in a new release of the NETGEAR's firmware, but I haven't seen it."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
"I would like an email notification in case of errors or failures. If it was possible for the switch to email out an error log or notification note, especially in cases where we have the switches offsite (on the other side of town), then if something was to go wrong, it would be great to know about it before our client goes to use it for a big event, and it doesn't work. While I know that it does do SNMP, which is sort of standard, in the AV world, that is not always an option for us. We are usually running our own little network box and don't always have access to an SNMP server. We may just have simple Internet access or something similar."
"Centralized monitoring is there, but competitors like Cisco Prime are at a higher level of centralized monitoring."
"There is a lack of documentation, and the documentation I have is unclear, so I have to rely on Google for information."
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Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is ranked 8th in Ethernet Switches with 64 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches writes "Provides campus switches and access switches that are simple to deploy, but the code isn't stable enough for a leaf and spine design". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Mellanox Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches. See our Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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