We performed a comparison between Juniper Enterprise Routers and MikroTik Routers and Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Juniper Enterprise Routers has the winning edge in this comparison because it is more stable and scalable and because it has better service and support categories.
"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."
"Juniper MX Series Routers are easy to configure and easy to back up."
"Juniper Switches is stable, easy to use, flexible, and has good performance. Also, the technology is good. It has a lifetime warranty and the prices are also very good."
"Juniper's custom Trio chipset drives their MX routers, offering superior performance. Juniper's design separates the control plane and the forwarding plane, which is a key aspect of their architecture. This separation provides high throughput, maintaining line-rate performance across the MX platform."
"The solution is pretty easy to set up after a bit of training."
"The full Internet DGP is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features for us were related to our transition into MPLS technology, specifically for BPN and VPN services."
"The most valuable feature is the standard routing protocol."
"On the SRX, the firewall is very easy to configure, especially when you want to filter out traffic."
"It's pretty stable."
"The radius and wireless features are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the hotspot network."
"They are very good at providing the bandwidth for multi-tenants and multi-dwelling units. We're managing WiFi hotspots for hundreds of locations, and the speed and performance are quite there. They also have very cheap 10G products that come with really good and flexible software. They are way cheaper than the top brands, and they're able to deliver the same performance and capabilities."
"The flexible IP firewall and IP network address translation make it very easy to give access to internal services."
"It's very user-friendly."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"We use the product for VPN."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"We'd appreciate it if they had a better GUI. It would be more flexible for the customers that way."
"The solution could improve by providing enhancements to built-in SDN or SDWAN."
"Automation can also be improved."
"The solution needs to offer SDN features."
"The price of this solution should be improved."
"There are areas for improvement in Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches. One aspect that could be enhanced is the pricing; many clients acknowledge the quality of Juniper switches but find the pricing challenging, especially when compared to competitors like Huawei. Additionally, from a feature perspective, there's a desire for improved clarity and ease of configuration in Juniper switches. Some users find it difficult to understand and configure certain aspects, necessitating the use of external tools. This complexity, especially for Internet service providers, can be a barrier. Addressing these concerns could further strengthen the position of Juniper switches in the market."
"Most IT equipment now has graphical interfaces, and there is a need for the Juniper routers to have a more intuitive web interface."
"The third-level customer support coming from Juniper itself could be much better. To get assistance from Juniper, we sometimes have to wait for weeks and months. I don't really appreciate that. Their support should be faster."
"Technical support could be better. They don't have good support like Cisco. It can also be more stable and scalable."
"The solution needs to improve its security firewalls and mirror that of, for example, Sophos, or FortiGate."
"Sometimes, when I need to reboot or change software, MikroTik crashes."
"The user interface allows you to do a lot of things, but it is not user-friendly."
"f they can improve the OpenVPN, to make that a bit more straightforward, that would be ideal."
"The updates as well as the patches could be improved. I believe it would be beneficial to automate the process of router patching to avoid the need for manual checks. With automated patching, as long as the router is connected to the internet, it can automatically perform necessary updates. Failing to patch the router can leave me vulnerable to potential security threats."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches need a firewall policy to secure the network. I also want Mikrotic to add load balancing to the firewall policy, as it's currently hard to do in Mikrotik devices."
"If the client wants bigger capacity, there may be some issues. That is, there may be issues with scalability."
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Juniper MX Series Routers is ranked 3rd in Routers with 33 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 1st in Routers with 60 reviews. Juniper MX Series Routers is rated 8.8, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Juniper MX Series Routers writes "Good performance, long life span, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Juniper MX Series Routers is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Huawei Enterprise Routers, HPE Enterprise Routers, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch and ExtremeRouting, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Huawei Enterprise Routers and NETGEAR Switches. See our Juniper MX Series Routers vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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