We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and Juniper QFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives me an unparalleled ability to build out my environment differently than I would have if I was going with another vendor."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its stability."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The integrations are valuable."
"We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"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."
"It's user-friendly."
"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 solution is stable."
"Currently, the switches don't behave like the 4500 switches in terms of acting as one physical chassis. So the multi-chassis PortChannel feature is not applicable in this case. Nevertheless, virtual port-channel feature covers this."
"I would like to see Duo directly integrated with the Nexus hardware, instead of it being through the proxies, like how Duo works today."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is the ability to integrate routing and switching features."
"Some of the DHCP features need improvement."
"Enhancing the software-defined level of this solution would empower it."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"The product could be updated more frequently for other phone model support."
"I am looking for a GUI that goes alongside them and more SD-WAN built to their core switches."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"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 works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper QFabric writes "Performs well, is easy to set up, and the vendor maintains the product well". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco FabricPath. See our Cisco Nexus vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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