Dell PowerConnect Switches [EOL] vs Juniper QFabric comparison

"The features I've found most valuable are that the product is very easy to configure and inexpensive."

"There is high reliability since we have used them for close to twenty years and only had possibly one failure."

"The product is cheap."

"Dell offers very good support."

"The tool is reliable, and it stands up well. The solution works fine and lasts a long time."

"When the price is competitive the customers tend to choose the cheaper brand and then look at the features. So having a competitive price is a plus."

"Their support has been excellent, and it has been quite stable and easy to set up."

"The most valuable feature is stability."

"The solution is stable."

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

"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."

"It's user-friendly."

"The vendor maintains the product well."

"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."

"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."

"Not a ten because I have to do a lot of testing on it. The correlation is okay."

"A big issue with this product is that when our customer migrated the data center, one cluster blocked the whole network and because we had a new approach, some commands were not compatible with the new version."

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

"The configuration should be improved."

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

"The product needs to improve in terms of reports and backups."

"The network features are not good."

"Accessibility and management could 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."

"The stability needs to be improved."

"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."

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

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

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

"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."

"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."

"The price of these switches is okay."

"Inexpensive"

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

"On a scale of one to ten, if one means it is a cheap solution, and ten means it is a very expensive tool, I rate the product's price as seven. The tool is a bit pricey."

"PowerConnect Switches are priced well."

"The product has a low price for the features it provides."

"If you want to purchase a new Dell PowerConnect Switch, you will pay up to $1,600, but I bought them used. I bought the four Dell PowerConnect Switches that I used for $1,000."

"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."

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

"Juniper QFabric is a high-level solution but it could be less expensive."

"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."

"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 is relatively high, but it offers an advantage over its competitors by providing better performance and functionality."