Dell PowerConnect Switches [EOL] vs Juniper QFabric comparison

"Dell offers very good support."

"The solution’s technical support is good."

"The features I've found most valuable are that the product is very easy to configure and inexpensive."

"When the price is competitive the customers tend to choose the cheaper brand and then look at the features. So having a competitive price is a plus."

"The most valuable features are the jumbo frames and the stacking."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its good integration with solutions from other vendors."

"Dell PowerConnect Switches are easy to configure."

"The product is cheap."

"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 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."

"The vendor maintains the product well."

"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."

"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."

"The solution is stable."

"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."

"Their hardware is not reliable, it's faulty."

"The one issue you face in the industry there is always some planned obsolescence in these switches."

"A big issue with this product is that when our customer migrated the data center, one cluster blocked the whole network and because we had a new approach, some commands were not compatible with the new version."

"The CLI for Dell PowerConnect Switches is sometimes confusing, especially with the LAN, but for the GUI it is simple."

"The solution could provide more integration to focus on targeting the network as a whole rather than a unified environment. It is meant for a built environment, so integration with other third-party vendors will likely be necessary."

"Not a ten because I have to do a lot of testing on it. The correlation is okay."

"Dell is sometimes slow to provide updates to firmware."

"You have to build the stackable interface by yourself in Dell PowerConnect Switches [EOL], making it an area that can be considered for improvement."

"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."

"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."

"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."

"The stability needs to be improved."

"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."

"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."

"The product is cheaper than Cisco and licensing is yearly. We have to pay additional costs for support."

"The product has a low price for the features it provides."

"The price of these switches is okay."

"PowerConnect Switches are priced well."

"If you want to purchase a new Dell PowerConnect Switch, you will pay up to $1,600, but I bought them used. I bought the four Dell PowerConnect Switches that I used for $1,000."

"This solution is much cheaper than comparable products by Cisco."

"The solution is less expensive and more cost-efficient."

"Pricing for Dell PowerConnect Switches is quite competitive compared to Cisco and HP pricing. Dell has cheaper pricing and the company is trying to push for sales for its switching infrastructure because right now, the current market is dominated by Cisco. In the US market, there's Cisco, HP, Juniper, and Arista which you can buy for data center switching meant for different kinds of enterprises and ISPs. Dell PowerConnect Switches, on the other hand, is a product for people who need smaller setups or individual switches, especially those looking for a cheaper product and basic switching, though you can also buy a complete suite packaged with the switches."

"Juniper QFabric is a high-level solution but it could be less expensive."

"The pricing is high and it is possible to find better pricing option solutions on the market, but the licensing model is quite flexible."

"The price is relatively high, but it offers an advantage over its competitors by providing better performance and functionality."

"The price for Juniper QFabric could improve. There are subscription, maintenance, and add-on feature fees."

"In terms of price, the QFabric solution is going to be probably in the middle of the road for a fabric solution."

"The pricing is high."