We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Juniper Ethernet Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches comes out on top in this comparison. It is easy to deploy and, according to reviews, it is a more powerful and robust solution than Juniper Ethernet Switches.
"The solution has great open architecture."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"It can scale well."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very easy to configure."
"The technical support is fantastic!"
"The most valuable feature is the Aruba Smart Rate Port."
"Aruba access points have a good transfer rate."
"The product is flexible and easy to set up."
"Juniper switches are very good with MPLS."
"Juniper is the best when it comes to the core layer."
"It is stable."
"It is easy to configure, and there are three routing switches."
"What I like most about this solution is that it is secure."
"I like the simplicity of it."
"The setup phase was straightforward."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"I think that the performance is getting better but they need to have more powerful switches on the market so that they can capture medium and large businesses."
"We had an integration team do the setup of the solution."
"The biggest issue right now is the delivery timeline. It takes too long to get the product."
"If we compare Aruba and Cisco at the data center layer, Cisco has its Nexus switch. Aruba provides the new 10000 series, but it does not compare with the Nexus switch."
"I have some security issues with Aruba Switches. I need to update the firmware and then the problems might go away."
"This solution could be improved if it offered long term support on a specific model or product."
"I am forced to consider changing products because other solutions have a better dashboard and a user-friendly interface."
"Stability could be better, especially during a reboot. We have had some issues recently with the software getting corrupt on reboot, which causes a lot of downtime."
"One potential drawback of the Juniper EX Series has been that those without experience using a command-line interface (CLI) may find it intimidating. However, Junos is working on improving this by offering tools, such as Juniper Mist with Wired Assurance and Apstra. Additionally, the graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved as it has been considered lackluster across the board in Junos."
"Juniper should improve the support services provided to users, as it is one of its areas with certain shortcomings."
"The price could be a bit lower."
"In an upcoming release, Juniper Ethernet Switches could improve by having more microservices."
"The durability of the devices could be better."
"I would like the ability to operate with other operating systems."
"The management tools are limited in their abilities, and suffer from upgrade problems."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is ranked 8th in Ethernet Switches with 65 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches writes "Provides campus switches and access switches that are simple to deploy, but the code isn't stable enough for a leaf and spine design". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, HPE Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches report.
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