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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs Juniper QFabric comparison

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Juniper are both solutions in the LAN Switching category. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Juniper is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise holds a 4.0% mindshare in LS, compared to Juniper’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Juniper users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Juniper QFabric and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches compete in high-performance networking. Juniper QFabric is better suited for scalability, while Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches offer flexible deployment and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Juniper QFabric's core strengths include effective data center management, simplified network architectures, and robust scalability, facilitating intensive network demands. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches emphasize strong security, adaptability to various network settings, and an intuitive modular design, allowing for seamless upgrades.

Room for Improvement: Juniper QFabric could enhance user-friendliness of initial setups, offer more automation tools, and improve integration simplicity. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches could strengthen their scalability, provide advanced performance tuning options, and expand feature sets for complex enterprise environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Juniper QFabric integrates seamlessly but requires complex initial configurations, with customer service known for quick issue resolution. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches offer straightforward setup processes and user-friendly management, complemented by responsive support across diverse service levels.

Pricing and ROI: Juniper QFabric's higher initial setup cost yields significant ROI from enhanced large-scale network performance. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches offer lower initial costs, ensuring faster ROI by balancing affordability with powerful networking capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch L...
Ranking in LAN Switching
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
6
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
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the LAN Switching category, the mindshare of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is 4.0%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Juniper QFabric is 1.9%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Attila Gyalus - PeerSpot reviewer
Highly Recommended Switches with User-Friendly Configuration Capabilities
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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

"With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly."
"OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"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."
"These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"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 is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"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."
"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 solution is stable."
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Cons

"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems."
"There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"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."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"The stability needs to be improved."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is purchased one time only, it is a perpetual license with no renewal."
"The price is okay. It's comparable to similar switches."
"The solution’s price is at a moderate level."
"OmniSwitch LAN Switches are cheaper than Cisco's switches."
"Juniper QFabric is a high-level solution but it could be less expensive."
"The price is relatively high, but it offers an advantage over its competitors by providing better performance and functionality."
"The pricing is high."
"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 and it is possible to find better pricing option solutions on the market, but the licensing model is quite flexible."
"The price for Juniper QFabric could improve. There are subscription, maintenance, and add-on feature fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
17%
Retailer
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
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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...
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What needs improvement with Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches?
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 preferen...
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What is your primary use case for Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches?
We work with LAN switches.
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What do you like most about Juniper QFabric?
The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability.
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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.
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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
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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.
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