We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is stability. We have a pretty large campus."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"Cisco Nexus is very safe and stable. I've been here 8 months. We have some devices that have been out for 11 years."
"We have found that logical tenant segregation to be the most useful feature."
"It has improved our organization because we have aggregated ports, we're able to put multiple agencies on the multiple different interfaces that we have going there. We're able to separate them out with the use of VLANs and whatnot."
"Cisco is refining the features all the time and you can see this in all the different vendors."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fabric backplane having upwards of 160 GB of communication. It is a top-of-the-rack solution where you have your directors sitting in the main area and then you have your nodes expanded out to your multiple cabinets. It has a very good design and could be your server backbone."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"It's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"There's a couple of really bad incidents lately. Probably luck of the draw."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."
"The scalability can be improved."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". 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 Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Nexus vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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