Juniper SRX Series Firewall Other Solutions Considered

EricLo - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant IT Manager - Infrastructure & Operation at Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co Ltd

We are constantly evaluating other options. If we find there are issues, we proceed to the next brand and consider that one. 

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GD
ICT Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of our clients have also seen similar solutions from our competitors such as Cisco and Fortinet. I think technically they are all very good products. However, for us we were looking for a product that was stable and had good support, this is the reason we chose Juniper. We package Juniper as part of our managed service to our customers.

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Jeff Ehrenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at ADS

We evaluated other products before choosing Juniper.

Other products had a more limited feature set, in my opinion. For some of the others, it was just the price. Juniper had a reasonable price and other reliable sources highly recommend it.

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AT
Project manager at computer care company

There are several options that we offer for our clients. These include Pala Alto, Cisco, Dell, SonicWall, F5, and FireEye. Some of our clients choosing Juniper, whereas others choose a solution from another vendor. The majority of our clients choose Cisco or FireEye.

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SB
Director & CIO of IT services at Connectivity IT Services Private Limited

The main competitors for Juniper are Palo Alto, Check Point, and Cisco. Juniper has a lot of features that are good for engineering. Things like Fortinet and Cyberoam can not really compete with these others when it comes to these important features. Specifically, when you talk about Juniper SRX you talk about cloud deployment. You talk about malware remediation. You talk about reporting analytics. You talk about quarantining or threat intelligence (Unified Threat Management or UTM). You talk about data throttle, control prevention, email, web analysis, and integrated management. It can even just work as a router or assisting layer. It works best especially in large networks — like when you talk about service providers — where you have huge traffic flow. It is built to have flexibility and ease-of-use.  

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DS
Project Manager at MULTILINK COMPUTERS PVT LTD

Juniper is lagging behind compared with Fortinet and Cisco.

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VS
Senior Manager at Allsec Technologies Ltd

We evaluated the Cisco 1400 series.

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SG
First Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are looking to gain some experience in using Mikrotik routers and switches.

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LF
Security Governance at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We tried to move our mobile data firewall from Juniper SRX to Cisco ASA. What we found was that Cisco did not performing well at all. We were very disappointed by the Cisco solution. With the Cisco solution, we had more memory issues with the same amount of traffic. With Juniper SRX, it just needs an upgrade to carry the traffic.

We have approved vendors in every industry. We cannot deviate and chose any vendor that we want. We can only select vendors from our approved list. The two vendors on that list for this industry include Cisco and Juniper, though recently Huawei was added.

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YS
IP Solution Architect /Deputy Manager at HFCL Limited

Before choosing Juniper, we compared it with two other solutions, but they were banned because they were Chinese products.

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DH
Network Architect - Contractor at TEML

Juniper is my favorite and I had used it so much that we did not evaluate any other products.

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it_user701490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network | Firewall Engineer - Cloud Managed Services Delivery at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
LK
Risk Management and Security Governance at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We did not evaluate vendors other than Juniper and Cisco because in the enterprise we have a set of approved vendors for each sector and these are two only two in this group.

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SO
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
it_user738864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No, we didn't evaluate other options. This was a natural way for us to migrate from ISG to SRX.

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AP
System Administrator at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

We are currently using Juniper SRX, however, I was thinking about maybe changing the devices to FortiGate or a UTM device.

Lately I was thinking about simplifying. Maybe FortiGate might have something more user-friendly for the end-user or for the customer experience.

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TM
Senior Network and Security Consultant, JNCIE-SEC#408 at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Other than Palo Alto, StrongSoft is very stable. Cisco Firepower is very unstable.

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EC
Pre-sales manager at RETO Industrial S.A. de. C.V.

Currently, we plan on exploring more products and solutions geared toward cloud security.

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SM
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We evaluated many other options. We checked out Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Check Point.

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AV
Senior Consultant with 51-200 employees

Previously, we had an implementation plan for a client. We verified the different types of firewalls and the support and how it works. We evaluated Cisco, Juniper, and FortiGate.

From the previous recommendation, we saw all of the technical aspects of the different firewalls. Based on that information, we were able to clarify and come to a conclusion and chose the firewall that was best suited to the client's needs.

Recently, because of the price, we have moved to Juniper.

Most of the AMCs are costly.

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FK
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We plan on buying an SRX370 within the next year.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Our customer evaluated Palo Alto also. They liked it, and even integrated it, but the scalability requirements they had were an issue. They loved Palo Alto for the security services, but their requirement was routing and security in a single device. That's the reason they were not able to go with the Palo Alto services, but they chose Juniper.

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RH
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We're currently looking at Fortinet as an option. Currently, this solution is fine for a smaller office, however, we're curious to see if there's a solution that may be better suited for a larger setup.

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it_user897687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at Aplikas

Before choosing Juniper, we evaluated a Fortinet solution because Fortinet has a competitive price. It's also effortless for our engineers to operate and maintain. They can understand and complete tasks quickly. 

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it_user707172 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT System Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked at Cisco, FortiGate, Palo Alto

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DS
Chief Information Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

When you consider performance, price, and features, maybe Juniper is not so cost-effective compared to other solutions like MikroTik. On the one hand, MikroTik might have better performance and much more features than Juniper. However, Juniper is more reliable and has different approval, certifications, and standard capability features. MikroTik does a lot of the same functions but doesn't have the same certifications. MikroTik is less expensive. The device price of MikroTik is $200 versus $6,000 with SRX. In the end, we chose SRX because it was on a list of solutions approved by our remote parties. One of our customers needed to have this type of VPN to work with our company.

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TM
Sr. Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

From experience, we like to use firewalls from Palo Alto and FortiGate because the solution is easy to configure with a UI to execute the app. If we use Juniper firewalls, we don't really use the UI because it is not as easy as the command line interface for configuration.

The VPN is different between Juniper and Palo Alto. As far as I know, Juniper does packet inspection in their VPN. Functions like anti-spam and antivirus are running step-by-step. Once the anti-spam processing is done, it goes on to antivirus scanning. But with Palo Alto, the technology is different. It copies each packet to each function. For example, if we activate anti-spam, antivirus, and another check, Palo Alto makes three copies of each packet and inspects them in parallel. This makes the system faster, compared to Juniper. This is the biggest difference as far as I know.

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TA
Network Manager with 1-10 employees

We are evaluating Palo Alto, Barracuda, and Sophos because we need a Next-Gen firewall.

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it_user697011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated the FortiGate 80 and 60 series and Cisco ASA 5500.

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MJ
Professional Services (Security) at Business Management Company

The solution was in place before I joined the company, so I am unaware if we evaluated other solutions.

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it_user222999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It depends on our customers requirements.

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ME
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are also using Fortinet and have a partnership with Palo Alto. In addition, we are looking into a partnership with Citrix.

Cisco and FortiGate were on original shortlist.

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it_user700152 - PeerSpot reviewer
NOKIA Lead Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Buyer's Guide
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Juniper SRX Series Firewall. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.