We performed a comparison between ExtremeSwitching 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."The performance of ExtremeSwitching is good."
"Our vendors are great and they offer very good support services."
"The solution has inspection firewalls that can do a deep packet inspection on a port basis."
"It is meeting our expectations in terms of performance as well as cost-effectiveness."
"The stability has been largely pretty good."
"ExtremeSwitching fabric technology is a unique technology used to protect against viruses. ExtremeCloud IQ is a very good and feature-rich solution compared to Cisco, Ruxi Networks, or Huawei."
"In the case of small businesses, the solution is budget-friendly and easy to configure."
"ExtremeSwitching is a good, stable platform."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"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 easy to use and has good performance."
"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 solution is stable."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"We noticed over the years that the price of the Extreme Switches has been rising and this will become a concern in the future."
"It could be cheaper in general."
"The solution lacks a cyber asset attack capability."
"ExtremeSwitching switches are not prevalent in the industry, so it's harder to go online and research how to deploy their APs or switches. There is a broader user community for Cisco and Juniper because they've been around for a while and everybody has a bit of knowledge they can publish online."
"ExtremeSwitching is scalable to a certain extent for SME-segmented IP."
"ExtremeSwitching has many features but having come from Cisco environments, there is a steep learning curve to learning all the functionality."
"The interface could be improved."
"The solution as a whole has hardware quality issues."
"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 pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
"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."
ExtremeSwitching is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 17 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. ExtremeSwitching is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ExtremeSwitching writes "Easy to configure, with a switching-level security feature". 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". ExtremeSwitching is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus and NETGEAR Switches, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our ExtremeSwitching vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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