We performed a comparison between Cisco Enterprise Routers and Juniper MX Series Routers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Routers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The solution is very stable. I have not seen any downtime due to the product freezing or anything like that. It performs well and hasn't required reboots unless it's to troubleshoot with a support service provider needing configuration. It doesn't overheat and it's on 24/7."
"It's highly stable. We rarely see any bugs or abnormalities in our Cisco routers, especially for the ISR series."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"It's a sound solution, so it's very easy to solve problems without a support contract, as mainly the problems we have related to the equipment can be solved by doing a Google search."
"Its performance and stability are most valuable. We are using it for the last five years, and it is constantly up. It didn't create any problems for us."
"I haven't assessed it in that way, they provided us with excellent service. We had very few issues."
"The stability of the solution's router is its most valuable feature."
"We appreciate that this solution performs well, regardless of the volume of traffic being fed through it."
"The stability of Juniper is better than Cisco's."
"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."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper MX Series Routers is its exceptional policy management capabilities."
"The solution is quite stable. We've found it to be very good. There aren't bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"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."
"I have found the most useful features to be layered VPNs, IPsec, VPLS, and firewall filters."
"The flexibility of the MPLS configuration is very good."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The installation process should be simplified, since it is quite complex in a new version."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required to be made by making it cheaper."
"Sometimes, I find it hard to learn how some features of the router work. So, these are the issues that may arise when a user might not have knowledge about the product."
"Compared to equipment by other vendors, such as Check Point, the physical size of the units is bigger."
"The cost is the biggest drawback of Cisco products. They say you'll never get fired for buying Cisco, but it's going to cost you."
"It can be very expensive, sometimes, to do the jump to the next router for your needs."
"The overall price of Cisco Enterprise Routers should be reduced, it is expensive."
"We would like to see an improvement in the price of this solution. It is currently more expensive than other comparable products on the market."
"The web interface can be improved."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Enhancing the capacity would be a welcome improvement."
"The integration could be better."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"The documentation needs to be updated to reflect the changes made in the latest update."
"If you are setting up a site-to-site VPN between a Juniper and Cisco device then you may encounter some issues."
"The solution needs to offer SDN features."
Cisco Enterprise Routers is ranked 2nd in Routers with 101 reviews while Juniper MX Series Routers is ranked 3rd in Routers with 33 reviews. Cisco Enterprise Routers is rated 8.6, while Juniper MX Series Routers is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Enterprise Routers writes "Allows us to configure NAS through Cisco activities and to create GRE channels with different sites". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper MX Series Routers writes "Good performance, long life span, and easy to set up". Cisco Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Huawei Enterprise Routers, HPE Enterprise Routers, OneAccess Enterprise Routers and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, whereas Juniper MX Series Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Huawei Enterprise Routers, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, HPE Enterprise Routers and ExtremeRouting. See our Cisco Enterprise Routers vs. Juniper MX Series Routers report.
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