We performed a comparison between ExtremeSwitching 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."ExtremeSwitching switches are highly reliable."
"The unique ring topology is actually a handy innovation."
"The price is low compared to the competition."
"The solution excels in configuration and other aspects. It offers reliability and performance."
"ExtremeSwitching fabric technology is a unique technology used to protect against viruses. ExtremeCloud IQ is a very good and feature-rich solution compared to Cisco, Ruxi Networks, or Huawei."
"It is meeting our expectations in terms of performance as well as cost-effectiveness."
"In the case of small businesses, the solution is budget-friendly and easy to configure."
"ExtremeSwitching is a good, stable platform."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The solution is stable."
"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 vendor maintains the product well."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"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 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."
"I believe they should be more aggressive in terms of pricing."
"The solution lacks a cyber asset attack capability."
"ExtremeSwitching hardware lacks flexibility compared to some other options."
"Extreme Networks does not have any entry-level products. This is a problem for them because Aruba has an Instant On series, which is new and cost-effective. Cisco also has the 1000 series, and other brands offer entry-level products."
"The training and resources for learning are lacking."
"The licensing is expensive."
"ExtremeSwitching switches are not prevalent in the industry, so it's harder to go online and research how to deploy their APs or switches. There is a broader user community for Cisco and Juniper because they've been around for a while and everybody has a bit of knowledge they can publish online."
"Their pricing could be a bit cheaper, as Huawei switches offer better pricing."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"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."
"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."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
ExtremeSwitching is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 17 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. ExtremeSwitching is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". 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". ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus and NETGEAR Switches, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our ExtremeSwitching vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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