We performed a comparison between Dell PowerConnect 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."This solution comes with a lifetime warranty."
"Their support has been excellent, and it has been quite stable and easy to set up."
"It's easy to set up. We can put it in production in a couple of minutes."
"Dell PowerConnect Switches are very easy to configure with the GUI. Dell supports the solution even though it has been discontinued."
"The solution’s technical support is good."
"Dell PowerConnect Switches are easy to configure."
"The functionality is very good."
"There is high reliability since we have used them for close to twenty years and only had possibly one failure."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The solution is stable."
"It's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"It would be great to have modules that integrate with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, Arista SDN, Huawei Agile, and IBM."
"Because of the stackings you lose some boards and switches."
"The CLI for Dell PowerConnect Switches is sometimes confusing, especially with the LAN, but for the GUI it is simple."
"The IOS software that is used on the switches could be improved."
"I can't think of what we would want in the next release."
"The product needs to improve in terms of reports and backups."
"The pricing could always be a bit lower."
"I would like to see better scalability and more features on these switches in the future."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"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."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"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."
Dell PowerConnect Switches is ranked 3rd in LAN Switching with 31 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Dell PowerConnect Switches is rated 8.0, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerConnect Switches writes "Excellent support, good pricing, and easy setup". 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". Dell PowerConnect Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve, NETGEAR Switches and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Dell PowerConnect Switches vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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