We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Ubiquiti Networks and others in Ethernet Switches."The most valuable aspect for our organization is the CX. It's wonderful."
"Aruba access points have a good transfer rate."
"The solution has great open architecture."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"Licensing costs are competitive with other solutions on the market."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is security."
"It can scale well."
"The most valuable Aruba switch feature is the lifetime warranty. It is a plus point in the budget."
"There is no end to the ability to scale Juniper."
"Juniper switches are smart and we have all the features that we want. You can rollback to the previous version if you make any mistake during configuration. This is not possible in Cisco."
"You willuse almost every feature on every switch to some degree because the utility is valuable."
"What I like most about this solution is that it is secure."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Juniper Switches' best feature is its flexibility."
"Juniper Ethernet Switches' best features are the high packer sorting and throughput, good uplink port capacity, and virtual setup."
"Juniper switches are very good with MPLS."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"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."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"The remote management tools are fantastic. The combination of the webpage as well as the app makes life so much easier. I don't need to go and visit sites to do upgrades or any sorts of changes. The firmware can all be deployed remotely. I can see the traffic on each of the switch ports remotely as well, so I can see if we've got problems, down to an individual port. It's very granular."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"The ability to mix and match is invaluable. So, we didn't have to run massive super extensive switches in the data closets where it wasn't necessary. Being able to manage it all from one place, as all your network configuration settings went live across your entire building from one management console was really handy."
"The solution is reliable and it is easy to setup."
"The port flexibility on the 54 series, specifically the 5406 for core usage, could be improved. When I want to upgrade to 10G, I don't have many options to choose from."
"I would like to see a lower price on the device."
"Aruba does not have local support in our region of Kerala."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"From an improvement perspective, I want Aruba Switches to have a longer life since it doesn't work properly after five years of use."
"The migration from older to newer products could be improved."
"I would like to see them integrate a monitoring solution."
"The product could be a little more competitive price-wise."
"The management platforms for the network need improvement."
"The price could be a bit lower."
"The Virtual Chassis Fabric is kind of complicated to troubleshoot sometimes. On the MPLS side, they're good — they're fine for the pseudo-wires and stuff—but they need more work on the LAN. It is difficult to troubleshoot their LAN technologies like Virtual Chassis."
"You need to make a few local configurations to work with the solution. We have faced issues with the tool's stability."
"In an upcoming release, Juniper Ethernet Switches could improve by having more microservices."
"The only issue that we have with Juniper Ethernet Switches is the firmware because it is not 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."
"It would be nice to have a more available list of modules that you can get for this solution."
"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."
"One thing I have asked for, something that NETGEAR lacks that I would love to see — and from what I understand it's in the works — is a REST API to programmatically interface with multiple switches. That would be a great feature."
"The security features must be improved."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There are some design issues on which they really missed the boat. The problem has to do with rack mounting them because the lights and jacks should all be on the front, and the power on the back. The way they did it makes it really difficult to use them in a rack environment, because when the lights are on the opposite side of the jacks... you usually can't see the back side of a rack. You can't get back there to see, so it's just crazy."
"The web interface has been a little sketchy on occasion. Sometimes I have to reload the page to get things to show up properly, but the switch itself seems fine. The web user interface is a little wonky at times."
"The tool's price could be better."
"They need to continue moving forward with their consulting in the AV realm to find out what is needed. They are some differences in the M4300 line and the larger M4500 line right now. They could produce a 1 Gigabit variety that could be a bit cheaper that might fit into that, since the majority of the projects that we see are still in that 1 Gigabit bandwidth threshold. Along with that, a great option would be if it would provide the same modular ability on a lower level."
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