We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst 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."The network is secure."
"They are stable. We haven't had any particular problem with them."
"Cisco offers DNS features over other vendors."
"We use a lot of security features available with Cisco Catalyst Switches."
"Stability. We have many Catalyst switches now, and they work without any downtime."
"They are pretty good. They are stable. Cisco has been around in the industry for a long time, so they are reliable, as well."
"The 802.1X port security and other security features work well and help keep the network secure."
"The most valuable features of the solution are BGP, VPN, and spine-leaf architecture."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"It's user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The solution is stable."
"The 40 gig backbone InterConneX was valuable for our use case. It is even faster now. QFabric has spine-leaf technology or topology, which basically makes every single hop only one hop away in terms of connecting from one device to another. It is a pretty good and robust solution. It works pretty well in terms of scalability, and their technical support is amazing."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"When you compare it with HPE and Aruba, it should be fancier."
"Its price should be improved. It is very pricey."
"Its price can be improved. It is currently expensive."
"Currently, Catalyst is completely proprietary with Cisco. They should have programmability options, through open-source controllers."
"The configuration process is hard."
"An area for improvement would be the documentation and training on configuring this product."
"The product must improve its security."
"It is not easy for everyone to configure the product's initial setup part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"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."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 170 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". 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". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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