We performed a comparison between Dell PowerConnect 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 most valuable feature of Dell PowerConnect Switches for me is the throughput. I also like that the product has more compatibility with Dell infrastructure, especially with EMC and new generation Dell servers. Dell PowerConnect Switches can also easily integrate with Dell servers, and this is another pro."
"Its throughout and compatibility are the most valuable."
"Dell offers very good support."
"The features I've found most valuable are that the product is very easy to configure and inexpensive."
"It's easy to set up. We can put it in production in a couple of minutes."
"The technology is good and the interface is simple. We haven't had any bugs, disconnections or delays."
"There is high reliability since we have used them for close to twenty years and only had possibly one failure."
"The product is reliable."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The solution is stable."
"It's user-friendly."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"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 configuration should be improved."
"When it comes to the configuration, there should be documentation and interactive help available to assist people who have experience with products from other vendors."
"I can't think of what we would want in the next release."
"Accessibility and management could be improved."
"Their hardware is not reliable, it's faulty."
"There should be more port options in this switch. Currently, it has 24 or 48 ports. However, some of our customers require only 8 ports, but I have to put a switch with 24 ports. They should provide smaller solutions and complimentary access point for companies like ours with a low quantity of work. The main issue with this product is branding. They should improve their branding and promote their brand more in Mexico. Customers are more aware of brands like Cisco as compared to Dell."
"I would like to see better scalability and more features on these switches in the future."
"The pricing could always be a bit lower."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"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."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
Dell PowerConnect Switches is ranked 3rd in LAN Switching with 30 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Dell PowerConnect Switches is rated 8.0, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerConnect Switches writes "Excellent support, good pricing, and easy setup". 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". Dell PowerConnect Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve, NETGEAR Switches and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Dell PowerConnect Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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