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.
"It's an excellent product. They're high-quality switches, and nothing has failed in the time that we've had them."
"Very easy and quick to setup and provide a nice dashboard providing a view of everything."
"The solution has great open architecture."
"The most valuable feature is the switches are reliable and replaced for free if anything goes wrong."
"I like the Aruba Central platform. It makes a lot of sense. The switches have a lot of great capabilities. Central can lockdown VLANs and control the apps and protocols. There are several built-in security features that I'm not utilizing. However, those capabilities are part of the reason I'm using enterprise switches in a small office. I like knowing that I can do these things when necessary."
"The most valuable feature is the lifetime warranty."
"We have not had any issues with the product and its functions. It has been stable."
"Aruba offers better options when it comes to the area of scalability compared to what Cisco offers. Aruba has a better graphical user interface that helps users with the configuration part."
"The feature I like the most is the ability to reword changes before committing to the change. We can always reword changes in 10 minutes if they don't work."
"I like the simplicity of it."
"The most valuable feature is that the CLI is the same on all of the Juniper devices, including routers, switches, and firewalls."
"It's pretty good as compared to other vendors."
"The solution is certainly scalable."
"In terms of performance, Juniper switches have a more user-friendly interface and more features than Cisco products."
"The solution is easy to use and has good integration."
"The GUI interface distinguishes it from other vendors and makes it easy to operate."
"The biggest issue right now is the delivery timeline. It takes too long to get the product."
"I would like to see easier learning and configuration from previous switch deployments."
"It's an expensive product."
"Aruba Switches' price could improve, if they were less expensive it would be beneficial."
"Aruba's switches are older so I'd like to see more upgrades. The newer ones may have that built-in. The product could be more user-friendly."
"Aruba Switches cover lots of areas and support automated and IOPS and with the central products, but I think when we look at the solutions overall, IOPS devices are not covered so much in Aruba Central. We are in Croatia and it is a small country, I don't know how its situation is in Europe, America, or Asia."
"There is an issue with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), but it is escaping me. We aren't using this feature yet, but it is something we are considering."
"I would like to see something like a Cisco Prime, an application controlling the entire system, switches, and access points."
"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."
"The security features for the product should be more unified for the product regardless of the product model."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better integration with software-defined networking."
"The price is in the intermediate range. It is not overly expensive, but also not cheap. It could stand improvement."
"They could provide better security tools."
"All Juniper documentation is terrible."
"We are not very pleased with their performance."
"Its distribution channel and the ease of availability should be improved."
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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 64 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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