We performed a comparison between Dell PowerSwitch N-Series 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."Port density and port speed performance are both suitable. It has some appealing intangibles."
"For a customer, it is easy to configure and to add ports through the LAN the GUI."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"It's user-friendly."
"The solution is stable."
"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 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."
"Customers do not prefer this to connect to multiple cities."
"Instead of competing at the enterprise level with that product, they should probably scale it. With all of the ports, they should develop a good mid-level business to truly scale it and gain adoption before attempting to go after the enterprise."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"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."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"The stability needs to be improved."
Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is ranked 12th in LAN Switching while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is rated 6.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerSwitch N-Series writes "Performs well, but the support and stability could be improved". 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". Dell PowerSwitch N-Series is most compared with Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst Switches, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our Dell PowerSwitch N-Series vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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