"Juniper Switches' best feature is its flexibility."
"The virtual Chassis feature for stacking is good in general, with high bandwidth for the link, which is good."
"Juniper switches are very good with MPLS."
"The most valuable features of Juniper Ethernet Switches are the simple configuration and ruggedness."
"The thing that sets Juniper apart from most switches is that when you're in the command line and you make a configuration change, you just write the command and then say "commit confirmed minutes". For example, I'm configuring a switch here in my office, which is five miles away, and I say, "commit confirmed 5". If I can't get back to the interface within five minutes to be able to make sure the switch came up, it rolls back to the previous configuration. This way I do not get locked out, or the switch doesn't get messed up because of the incorrect configuration. That's an automatic feature, which is pretty slick. I haven't seen that feature with other vendors that I've worked with. That's probably my most favorite feature."
"There is no end to the ability to scale Juniper."
"The solution is easy to use and has good integration."
"The solution has a high level of network functionality."
"Its simplicity and web interface were most valuable. I also liked the two-factor authentication."
"Good price point and very simple to use."
"For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily."
"I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high."
"The performance is good. They also have good prices."
"The integration with the controller is one of the most valuable features of these switches. They are also very stable. For example, we have some equipment that we haven't touched for four years that is still reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is the graphic user interface for monitoring, where you can see the status of the device in real-time. I use those features across the campus. I use the APs as my beacons to tell me whether the area of the school of the network is down or not. Those will be the first to alert me that there is a problem with the network or a device. They provide me with more than only monitoring themselves, I use them in order to monitor all the devices."
"Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc."
"Ubiquiti is one step above the consumer level. They cost a little bit more, but they just seem to be drop-dead reliable, and they're keeping up with the latest standards."
"The packet channelizing feature should be improved."
"Its distribution channel and the ease of availability should be improved."
"The initial setup for Juniper switches is complex. Juniper has a new program that solves that problem a little bit, but it is expensive, so I don't use it. It is Juniper Mesh, Juniper Wire, or something like that where you plug in a switch, and it goes out to their cloud, finds a config, and brings it down. So, you can do everything cloud-based, but there is a fee for that. It is expensive, so I've never used it. If we were starting, we would try to do something like that. It is more for a large enterprise for managing hundreds of switches versus what we're doing. They should make its price more cost-effective or include it for new or smaller companies."
"We need to start seeing some kind of AI to assist with some of what we really want to accomplish from a policy standpoint to achieve better efficiency."
"The technical support from Juniper Ethernet Switches could be better."
"The updates are constantly breaking."
"Stability could be better, especially during a reboot. We have had some issues recently with the software getting corrupt on reboot, which causes a lot of downtime."
"The security features for the product should be more unified for the product regardless of the product model."
"Its scalability can be better. If possible, it can have Hyper POE. I am not sure if there is a fiber version."
"It would be nice if there was a way to label all of the ports on it so that I could include information about where the various connections go."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches can improve by putting more effort into security. There are not many options in security. Other solutions, you can filter, do access control, and functionality. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches provides all the basic network security where it's all about the password for someone to access the SSID on the network, but it doesn't go beyond advanced network features of packet filtering, monitoring, and managing users."
"The documentation for command lines needs to be improved."
"I had some initial problems with the configuration that necessitated contacting technical support."
"Most configuration can be done on the GUI but sometimes you have to go under the hood and tweak on the CLI."
"The support is pretty much email-based and that's horrible for an enterprise product. I can't call anybody right away."
"This brand is not very popular in China."
"There is currently an issue with supply of switches which needs to be sorted out."
Extreme VDX is ranked 23rd in Ethernet Switches with 1 review while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 15 reviews. Extreme VDX is rated 8.0, while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Extreme VDX writes "A simple and stable solution with a web interface and two-factor authentication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Deploys quickly, offers good stability, and has great feature sets". Extreme VDX is most compared with Cisco Nexus, Cisco Catalyst Switches, ExtremeSwitching, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center and VMware NSX, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with NETGEAR Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches, Aruba Switches, Meraki MS Switches and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch.
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