We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches 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."With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly."
"These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure."
"OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good."
"I rate the technical support an eight or a nine out of ten. So far, they've been very professional and helpful, especially when we need to raise a case for any issue."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer service and support. The solution is good and people should know about it."
"It's user-friendly."
"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 solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fabric backplane having upwards of 160 GB of communication. It is a top-of-the-rack solution where you have your directors sitting in the main area and then you have your nodes expanded out to your multiple cabinets. It has a very good design and could be your server backbone."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The solution is stable."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems."
"A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight."
"There is no OEM support in India so RMAs need to be sent to France, which takes a long time if the hardware is faulty."
"There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."
"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"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."
"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 stability needs to be improved."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is ranked 10th in LAN Switching with 6 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches writes "With a good technical support in place, there needs to be an improvement in the way the tool is put together". 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". Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus and HPE ProCurve, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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