We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches 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."Power over Ethernet (PoE) is one of the most valuable features. It eliminates the need for power supplies every time."
"VLAN gives us segregation."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches is very stable, configurable, and durable. It is also easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are performance, speed, and durability."
"The product is very robust."
"It is an infrastructure tool, so it is just providing a backend service. Its most useful feature is that it operates on a regular basis. It is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it is to use."
"We are a vendor for the healthcare sector, especially hospitals, and normally, we use a full Cisco solution for stability, especially for the stability of the Access Points and the security of switches."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"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."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The solution is stable."
"It's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"Its price can be improved. It is currently expensive."
"The solution is quite expensive for our clients. It's a pain point for some companies. They should work to reduce the price."
"In a future upgrade, I would like to see integrated wireless in the solution."
"The product is expensive."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
"I think one switch should go beyond the 10 gig connectivity to 40 gigs."
"All other modules have comparatively many more functions or power than regular Catalyst switches."
"Any improvements that they make should be in the wireless area of the product."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"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."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". 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". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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