We performed a comparison between Juniper Session Smart Router and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper and others in Routers."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 of Juniper Session Smart Router is its unique SDR channel."
"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"The solution is especially Session's smart, application-aware, AI-based."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The microsegmentation is a good feature. You can segment details, products, or hardware information."
"Overall, I would say the solution has been quite stable."
"Has a great firewall."
"This solution comes with an API that can easily integrate with other solutions."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Juniper Session Smart Router could be better in terms of software performance."
"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."
"Juniper Session Smart Router can improve the integration for Wi-Fi devices and add additional Sassy deployments."
"I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution."
"Since most people are very much used to physical networking, they find it difficult to use VMware NSX in the initial stage."
"Despite being somewhat behind in the cybersecurity field, VMware should develop a cloud and a red team to continuously monitor for new malware and ransomware."
"Just being more knowledgeable about the different functions."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"It needs to be cheaper."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
"Occasionally the licensing is not very clear. They should make it easier to understand."
Juniper Session Smart Router is ranked 9th in Routers with 3 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Juniper Session Smart Router is rated 8.4, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper Session Smart Router writes "Tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, and as a partner, we get good support from them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Juniper Session Smart Router is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, NFX Series Network Services Platform, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform and Mist WAN Assurance, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.
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