Dell PowerConnect Switches [EOL] vs Juniper QFabric comparison

"The solution’s technical support is good."

"The tool is very user-friendly, with features catering to beginners and advanced users. For beginners, there are models with interactive and easy-to-navigate GUIs that aid in initial deployment and updates. For advanced users, there is the option to use the CLI."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to multitask."

"Dell PowerConnect Switches are easy to configure."

"This solution comes with a lifetime warranty."

"The product is cheap."

"Its throughout and compatibility are the most valuable."

"The security is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It also has good storage and resource handling."

"The vendor maintains the product well."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"The CLI for Dell PowerConnect Switches is sometimes confusing, especially with the LAN, but for the GUI it is simple."

"More stable firmware releases would be an improvement because we have had them randomly power on and off."

"Scalability, especially with the power connect series is something that you have to take into account before starting the project because any changes to an ongoing project can be difficult."

"Their hardware is not reliable, it's faulty."

"The product's infrastructure and connectivity features need improvement."

"Accessibility and management could be improved."

"I would like to see better scalability and more features on these switches in the future."

"A user can take care of the product's installation part, but it may not seem to be an easy process."

"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."

"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."

"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."

"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."

"The stability needs to be improved."

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

"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."

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

"Pricing for Dell PowerConnect Switches is quite competitive compared to Cisco and HP pricing. Dell has cheaper pricing and the company is trying to push for sales for its switching infrastructure because right now, the current market is dominated by Cisco. In the US market, there's Cisco, HP, Juniper, and Arista which you can buy for data center switching meant for different kinds of enterprises and ISPs. Dell PowerConnect Switches, on the other hand, is a product for people who need smaller setups or individual switches, especially those looking for a cheaper product and basic switching, though you can also buy a complete suite packaged with the switches."

"Its price is okay. Sometimes, it is lower than a Cisco solution."

"PowerConnect Switches are priced well."

"The solution is less expensive and more cost-efficient."

"Dell PowerConnect switches are cheaper than Cisco switches. Cisco's higher capacity switches (100 or 200 gigs) are super-expensive. With the higher capacity, the price of the switches and the price of the architecture go high. Dell is cheaper and modular. So, I don't need to invest 100% upfront. I can invest as I progress. That is an option because the chassis will not be populated with all the pluggables. I have a choice because it is modular. I can go for 25 gigs today, and after four months, I can go for 100 gigs, and after that, I can go for 200 gigs. I have a choice when it is not a fixed switch."

"The price of these switches is okay."

"This solution is much cheaper than comparable products by Cisco."

"Inexpensive"

"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."

"The pricing is high and it is possible to find better pricing option solutions on the market, but the licensing model is quite flexible."

"In terms of price, the QFabric solution is going to be probably in the middle of the road for a fabric solution."

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