Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs Juniper QFabric comparison

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs. Juniper QFabric

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Categories and Ranking

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch L...

Ranking in LAN Switching

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Juniper QFabric

Ranking in LAN Switching

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is 4.1%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Juniper QFabric is 2.0%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Attila Gyalus

Owner at TeloNet

A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight.

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Suresh Pathipatti

Senior Information Technology Administrator at Aighospital

Performs well, is easy to set up, and the vendor maintains the product well

QFabric is the core switch. We also have two Brocade switches for the Fibre level The product works fine. It is an excellent product. There are different element systems and different options for each generation of the tool. We maintain the data center and analyze issues. I have no negative…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer service and support. The solution is good and people should know about it."

"I rate the technical support an eight or a nine out of ten. So far, they've been very professional and helpful, especially when we need to raise a case for any issue."

"With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly."

"These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."

"OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good."

"The vendor maintains the product well."

"The solution is stable."

"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."

"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various 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."

"It's user-friendly."

"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."

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Cons

"A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight."

"There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."

"I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems."

"There is no OEM support in India so RMAs need to be sent to France, which takes a long time if the hardware is faulty."

"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done."

"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."

"The stability needs to be improved."

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

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

"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."

"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."

"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"OmniSwitch LAN Switches are cheaper than Cisco's switches."

"The solution’s price is at a moderate level."

"The price is okay. It's comparable to similar switches."

"The license is purchased one time only, it is a perpetual license with no renewal."

"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."

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

"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."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches?

One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer serv...

What needs improvement with Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches?

What is your primary use case for Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches?

We work with LAN switches.

What do you like most about Juniper QFabric?

The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Juniper QFabric?

Juniper QFabric is not overly expensive. Licensing is required for certain features like vRRP, but setting up a virtual chassis does not necessitate a separate license.

What needs improvement with Juniper QFabric?

Improvements could be made to QFabric's lifecycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support. The rapid release cycle and short life span compared to comp...

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Also Known As

Alcatel Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches, OmniSwitch, OmniSwitch LAN Switches

QFabric

Overview

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Juniper QFabric System is composed of multiple components working together as a single switch to provide high-performance, any-to-any connectivity and management simplicity in the data center. The QFabric System flattens the entire data center network to a single tier where all access points are equal, eliminating the effects of network locality and making it the ideal network foundation for cloud-ready, virtualized data centers.The highly scalable QFabric System improves application performance with low latency and converged services in a nonblocking, lossless architecture that supports Layer 2, Layer 3, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities.

Juniper

Sample Customers

Advocate Health Care, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Azienda Ospedaliera della Provincia di Lodi, Centre Hospitalier Carcassonne, Certis Cisco Security, China Tianchen Engineering Corporation Co. LTD, City of Frankfurt, Dongseo University

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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs. Juniper QFabric