We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Juniper Ethernet Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches comes out on top in this comparison. It is easy to deploy and, according to reviews, it is a more powerful and robust solution than Juniper Ethernet Switches.
"When it comes to basic L2 switching, we've found that Aruba switches are very user-friendly in terms of configuration and management. I haven't had the opportunity to utilize Aruba Central for managing the switches yet, so I can't speak to that aspect. However, overall, we've found the deployment process for Aruba switches to be very straightforward."
"The solution is very stable."
"Licensing costs are competitive with other solutions on the market."
"It is very easy to set up."
"It is slightly more price effective than Juniper and it has a slightly larger range."
"We can scale as needed."
"These switches have a good performance, and they are also quickly configurable."
"It's an excellent product. They're high-quality switches, and nothing has failed in the time that we've had them."
"I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10 for scalability."
"The performance is very good."
"The GUI interface distinguishes it from other vendors and makes it easy to operate."
"There is no end to the ability to scale Juniper."
"The scalability is excellent. It's one of the aspects of the solution that is quite good."
"One of the nicest things about Juniper switches is they work well with other vendor products. When you have to go into a situation where other vendor switches are present, you can make it work."
"The thing that sets Juniper apart from most switches is that when you're in the command line and you make a configuration change, you just write the command and then say "commit confirmed minutes". For example, I'm configuring a switch here in my office, which is five miles away, and I say, "commit confirmed 5". If I can't get back to the interface within five minutes to be able to make sure the switch came up, it rolls back to the previous configuration. This way I do not get locked out, or the switch doesn't get messed up because of the incorrect configuration. That's an automatic feature, which is pretty slick. I haven't seen that feature with other vendors that I've worked with. That's probably my most favorite feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We had an integration team do the setup of the solution."
"Aruba Switches' price could improve, if they were less expensive it would be beneficial."
"We have needed to upgrade software to fix some challenges we experienced. After downloading the latest version of Aruba, these were fixed."
"It would be good if I could get a 24-port, 10 gig module."
"The dashboard could be improved, especially for the CX Switches. It would help to push scripts and configurations via an easy to use dashboard, one which would give us complete visibility of all of our switches in one place. Right now, we have more than one dashboard for Aruba. It would be nice if it was centralized."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing because the Aruba Central licenses add a high cost."
"Aruba's management suite has some room for improvement."
"It takes a long time to import Aruba switches to Ecuador."
"Support could be improved."
"The upgrading of the system should be simplified and made faster."
"The updates are constantly breaking."
"We are not very pleased with their performance."
"The operating system, Junos OS, often has bugs which forces rollbacks or additional upgrades to resolve."
"Juniper Ethernet Switches could improve in the EX 2300 model because it does not support IPsec VPN. Only the models at 3400 or higher support it. Additionally, there is a need for support for Mac which is lacking. Some of their competitors, such as Cisco, support Mac."
"Has a steep learning curve."
"The stability could be better. We find, for example, Cisco, to be more stable."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is ranked 8th in Ethernet Switches with 65 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, 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". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, HPE Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches report.
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