We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Ubiquiti Networks and others in Ethernet Switches."The solution's most valuable aspect is its monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the security that these switches provide."
"a value-for-money product and comparatively a very reasonable price compared to competitors like SAP or IBM."
"The technical support is fantastic!"
"The solution is easy to use and quick to deploy."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the use of use and user-friendliness."
"We use this solution for small and middle sized offices across different locations. The switches connect to the remote sites for distribution to the end user."
"This solution is really easy to use. It is much easier to use than Cisco. It's got a nice web interface for stepping up and an added warranty."
"The scalability is excellent. It's one of the aspects of the solution that is quite good."
"The combination of hardware and software makes it a very good solution. It is a modern protocol that they have supported in the switches. The solution has good performance."
"There is no end to the ability to scale Juniper."
"The GUI interface distinguishes it from other vendors and makes it easy to operate."
"The security is good."
"Juniper is the best when it comes to the core layer."
"The tool's most valuable feature is stability."
"The solution has a high level of network functionality."
"The ability to manage them is the big valuable feature. The ease of use is great."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"One of the biggest benefits of the remote management is that it's easy to use and you can use it from a mobile device or tablet with the app they've developed... If one of my engineers is out in the field at a client and an alert comes in from another client, that engineer can take that alert and look at it in real-time."
"We have one client that has three Insight switches and when we make a change to their network... we can make the configuration change and push it down to all three switches at once. We don't have to individually log on to each switch to make the change."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"The remote troubleshooting is pretty easy. You can turn off a port that might have a network loop created, or where there might be a bad NIC card that is creating issues. Being able to turn off that port remotely is fantastic, instead of having to replace the whole switch. Remote management is really easy."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"This switch is Layer 3, so it is a totally managed system."
"We have needed to upgrade software to fix some challenges we experienced. After downloading the latest version of Aruba, these were fixed."
"I would like to see them integrate a monitoring solution."
"This solution could be improved if it offered long term support on a specific model or product."
"The port flexibility on the 54 series, specifically the 5406 for core usage, could be improved. When I want to upgrade to 10G, I don't have many options to choose from."
"This product could be improved with additional security features."
"They should provide training courses for certification, and have it available on the internet."
"I have some security issues with Aruba Switches. I need to update the firmware and then the problems might go away."
"The migration from older to newer products could be improved."
"The security features for the product should be more unified for the product regardless of the product model."
"Juniper Ethernet Switches would be improved by upgrading the uplink port in EX2300 categories service from 10G to 25G."
"The protocols can be tunneled, but on a global basis, not on an interface, and this is a feature that should be added."
"The stability could be better. We find, for example, Cisco, to be more stable."
"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."
"Juniper should improve the support services provided to users, as it is one of its areas with certain shortcomings."
"The management tools are limited in their abilities, and suffer from upgrade problems."
"Their web GUI interface needs to be a lot better, especially when compared to HP. The command line is good, but you have to know how to get around it. The GUI is clunky and very slow."
"NETGEAR Switches could be more secure. Scalability could also be better. This infrastructure is a bit old, and we need something that will be more secure. Something that will introduce WLAN, and we will need the knowledge to go with that. Some of the switches were used for more than seven years. I think it was just their lifespan that was exhausted. But other than that, there haven't been any issues that required us to complain or get concerned."
"The tool's price could be better."
"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff. Instead of having some manual configuration for common features, they may want to have a single wizard that could be put in place which would let you walk through creating multiple VLANs and different routes between VLANs in a wizard. Then, you wouldn't have to dig in so deep."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"The security features must be improved."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The ‘how-to’ guides could do with some improvements. We got in trouble following the stacking and Dante set-up guides. If these would have been accurate, we would not have lost three days."
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