Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches Scalability

Bona Chhith - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Network Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the scalability as five out of ten.

If you exceed 10,000 or 15,000 Mac addresses, it becomes unscalable and the network becomes very slow. There are a lot of figures within the data center that Juniper hasn't come up to speed. Now, they claim that they don't support CRB anymore. They support symmetrical IRB, and they support dynamic BGP. 

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KyeJewell - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Support Engineer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10 for scalability.

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MN
Network Admin at a government with 11-50 employees

Its scalability is excellent. It is being used extensively. We're going to finish off other vendors this year. It is going to be all Juniper.

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MuhammadBilal2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Networks at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We have three people, including me, that work on the solution. We're administrators. 

It's scalable. However, we had some issues with stacking. That stacking cable is not properly connected with the chassis. We already informed them as well. They said plug in one cable and then your stacking will be completed. There is a bug in the stacking module, so I don't know when they will fix it. That's why we are thinking of replacing it.

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Thorsten Hansl - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Düsen-Schlick GmbH

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten.

Around 100 people in my company use the tool.

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FabioCavalcante - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente de contas nacionais | Delivering innovative solutions that stand out for their excellence at Stoneground

It is a very scalable product. I studied a few successful case studies, where they mentioned it efficiently managed around 3,000 access points in larger companies and networks.

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Rodoljub Katic - PeerSpot reviewer
Wireless Network Design Engineer at Hyperoptic

We can scale and expand the solution. 

We have more than 500 users on the solution currently. 

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TarunKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Service Manager at Birdeye Inc.

The solution is scalable.

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Pawel Jenner - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps and System Engineer at Netyard

It is scalable. You can scale with more equipment, more cards, more interfaces, et cetera. In the case of switches, you've got upwards of six so you can scale the solution for your needs.

I tend to work with medium-sized organizations. 

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PinchasAlbalya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Ben Gurion University

I would rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. We have around 148 ports connected using the solution.

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it_user1259004 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Enterprise Design Group

Is there an end to the ability to scale Juniper? If there is, I have never seen it and I would know because I do data center design. Before I did what I am doing now, I was a director of new technology for Sprint PCS. We equipped to handle a lot of routing and I do not know if there is a scalability issue in the end.  

Our clients are a mix of industries that are small, medium, or large businesses. This product can service all of them. The scalability is really very good. 

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DK
Compliance, Security & Testing Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

This solution is extremely scalable. We had to add a new line module and we were able to do it while it was hot, so we didn't have any downtime.

This solution makes up the core of our network, so everybody in the company relies on it. We're predominately web-facing, so it supports our public-facing infrastructure. It is difficult to estimate the number of users that it supports.

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MohammedThousif Ansari - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Tata Communications Ltd

Juniper Switches are scalable.

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MH
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have approximately 200 users in our company.

I don't choose products by name, but we develop the technical specifications, and any vendor who can meet the technical specifications will be accepted. The tender, financial, and commercial processes will begin, and we will come to an agreement on the list price.

Our developers are in another department.

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JV
Team Leader Solution Specialists at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability depends on the environment. For example, if the customer is in a healthcare environment then it is more scalable than other solutions.

We have approximately 30 large customers using this solution.

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SM
CTO at ITBiz Solutions

In terms of scalability they are scalable, especially in the context of Ukraine's growing Ethernet provider market. I have observed instances where customers easily scale up their network capacities with Juniper and this has proved to be very beneficial for them. 

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AH
Managing Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Juniper EX Series is highly scalable as switches. They have a high capacity for virtualization, supporting up to 64 or 128 nodes on a virtual chassis with a 48-port switch. They are well-suited for fabric and top-of-rack setups and can scale up exponentially. They are great solutions for connecting data centers.

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SR
Senior Technical Director at National Informatics Center

Juniper Ethernet Switches are at their end of life. The scalability could improve.

We have approximately 36 Juniper Ethernet Switches and the cost of all of the switches was approximately 200 million rupees.

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Mehdi Mamaghani - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at Pars Khodro Company

I think Juniper is scalable in some ways. Really as far as this capability, I would say it is good, but that scalability is in the middle in the category of switches.  

The number of users who are using this solution is harder to estimate for our clients than it is within our own company. If we are talking about Juniper Ethernet, one client project that we have has between 200 or 250 people. Nearly 40% of the users are going to be systems engineers.  

There are a variety of user and organizational types. Some of the users are office workers and some of them are engineers. Some of them work in financial jobs and some of them are more on the business end. There are a variety of people using the products.  

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UY
Senior network engineer at GoTech

The solution is scalable.

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HR
Manager - IT at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scalable.

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GH
IT Support Engineer at Gotech

We have approximately 500 users using the solution.

I rate the scalability of Juniper Ethernet Switches an eight out of ten.

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FR
Network Engineer at Media Telekomunikasi Mandiri

The solution scales well. It's not a problem if you need to expand. 

You can upgrade or add more switches to this product.

We have six or seven people that use the solution. They are all engineers. 

We may increase usage, however, likely instead on an SD-WAN network.

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Ahmed Hawana - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at IDSC

The solution offers good scalability.

It is a multi-vendor environment, so the total environment itself has about 1,000 users. They use various switches, however.

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

There are no problems with scalability. The ability to add switches to a virtual-chassis means adding/removing is an easy task.

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PJ
Owner at Shree Atharva Sales Corporation

Juniper Ethernet Switches' architecture is very good for scaling.

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MP
Vice President Digital Network & Security Delivery Group at Microland Limited

Juniper Ethernet Switches are scalable.

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TL
Network Engineer at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

There are no issues with the scalability - we went with this product because it supported ten gigs and the switches are stackable. You scale the platform to meet your needs, and it scales to meet our needs.

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VS
IT Administrator at RC Network Solutions Pvt Ltd

We have had no issues with scalability.

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ZP
Owner & General Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees

Juniper Ethernet switches are scalable. 

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MB
Federal Field Systems Engineer at a government with 51-200 employees

Juniper Ethernet Switches are scalable. If you want to scale, you can go from a small enterprise switch up to service provider-type switches, and the configurations are going to be the same.

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CC
Network and Service Development Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

It is pretty scalable using virtual traffic. We are not using that feature, but I know that it can scale. There are different models that scale in different ranges.

We have a handful of administrators that work on these units, in addition to our customer base.

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Ahmed Mondher - PeerSpot reviewer
Network And Security Engineer at TechProTn

Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches' scalability is high. 

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

We have approximately 500 users using the solution.

Juniper EX Series is scalable.

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Emmanuel Bakare - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Design / Operations Engineer at Zoracom

The solution is stable. Since we are dealing with a telecommunication company, there is a lot of volatility regarding the amount of traffic that has to pass through these switches and devices. It has the ability to withstand heavy traffic and adjust the slide depending on the quantity of traffic passing the track at any point in time. So I would rate it as very scalable and classify it as an eight out of ten compared to other products we use in our department.

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SH
Network Engineer at Houston Technologies

We have 500 people using the solution. We find it to be scalable. If it needs to expand, it's not an issue.

One switch has 48 ports. We have about ten switches.

We likely will be expanding the solution in the future. We've wanted to, and now we have a need to.

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Anoop-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Video conferencing Admin at Akshara Enterprises India Pvt Ltd

It's scalable. With the Juniper switches, all switches are L3 switches, which is a three-layer switch. 

The 24 port EX2300 comes with four slots of 10 gig fiber.

We have approximately 30 percent of the market share for clients.

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Joe Renaldy - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Hypernet Indonesia

We have 500 Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches users in our projects. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten. It could be improved.

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SaurabhMishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is very easy to scale, it's a plug-in-place. 

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EM
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is okay, it could be better. The configuration could be easier, and more simple.

We have approximately 500 users. All of the departments are on a campus-style network with shared buildings and one compound. All of them are interconnected with fiber and have users in multiple buildings. There are approximately 12 buildings.

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AS
Network Administrator at Virtual University

I rate EX switches seven out of 10 for scalability. Sometimes the Junos OS hangs, and we need to restart the switch. It takes a long time to reboot after that. 

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FR
Head of Infrastructure Network & Security at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

There are five people in my team who use the Juniper switches.

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SB
System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to scale. They have a stacking feature so you can scale up, for certain series, up to 12 switches per rack. Also, in terms of distribution or core switches, they have modular devices so they can add cards and modules to scale up.

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Md. Al Imran Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at Link3 Technologies

The scalability part of the product is not very complex.

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JEGAN N - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at SYSTA NETWORKS

Juniper Ethernet Switches are designed to be scalable and flexible.

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SC
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Juniper Ethernet Switches are scalable.

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MK
Managing Director at Spans Partner Gmbh

It is scalable.

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it_user1203708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Advanced Technologies

In the technical team, we have six users. In terms of end-users, we have more than sixty.

We have large, medium, and small customers who use this solution.

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SJ
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't have any issues with scalability.

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KE
Service Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is scalable.

We have approximately twenty users, most of them are engineers.

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WW
DevOps System Engineer at Monash University

The solution is certainly scalable. 

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IR
Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's a scalable product.

We have millions of clients who are using this solution daily.

In our organization, we have 20 people who are using it.

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DA
Data Center Architecture and Planning at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is excellent. It's one of the aspects of the solution that is quite good.

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RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

I have found the scalability could be improved in the version I was using.

We have approximately 90 users using this solution.

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NV
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It's a scalable solution. We have approximately 200 users in our organization.

We plan to continue using Juniper Ethernet Switches.

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it_user101373 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Buyer's Guide
Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.