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Juniper MX Series Routers pros and cons

Vendor: Juniper
4.4 out of 5
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PROS

Juniper MX Series Routers offer exceptional throughput capacity for firewalls and high reliability with superior stability, providing seamless performance without bugs, glitches, or crashes.
The architecture of Juniper routers, with separate control and forwarding planes, ensures high throughput while maintaining line-rate performance across the MX platforms.
Juniper routers include policy management capabilities and beneficial rollback configuration, allowing users to test configurations prior to permanent application.
Users value the flexibility and advanced features of Juniper MX Series Routers, particularly for MPLS, VPN, BPN, and security.
Juniper MX Series Routers are backed by excellent documentation, aiding in effective issue resolution and customization, especially in Windows environments.

CONS

Pricing is considered high and could be improved for smaller networks.
There is a need for a more updated and comprehensive documentation to assist with changes and implementation.
Third-level customer support from Juniper could be faster and more efficient.
Juniper MX Series Routers could incorporate better security features to protect against various network threats.
Improvement is needed in clustering capabilities to extend beyond the existing limitations.
 

Juniper MX Series Routers Pros review quotes

reviewer1083318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 21, 2019
The most valuable feature is the capacity of the throughput for the firewall.
reviewer1123962 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Center Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 27, 2019
On the SRX, the firewall is very easy to configure, especially when you want to filter out traffic.
EP
Network Engineer at Technical University of Crete
Jan 29, 2020
I think that the extensions are very valuable. The way you can test the configuration before applying that configuration permanently is very helpful. The rollback configuration is also very useful.
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it_user1290105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 24, 2020
Users are able to easily configure the whole solution via simple data.
GM
Technical Account Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Mar 9, 2020
The solution is quite stable. We've found it to be very good. There aren't bugs, glitches, or crashes.
reviewer1083318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2020
The flexibility of the MPLS configuration is very good.
JA
Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
May 13, 2020
The stability of Juniper is better than Cisco's.
BS
Consultant at NE-Infracell
Jul 3, 2020
The most valuable feature is the standard routing protocol.
AE
Business Owner at Dropsoft
Nov 24, 2020
The most valuable feature is reliability.
reviewer654672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner & General Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees
Dec 30, 2020
It is very stable and scalable.
 

Juniper MX Series Routers Cons review quotes

reviewer1083318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 21, 2019
The price of this solution should be improved.
reviewer1123962 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Center Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 27, 2019
Most IT equipment now has graphical interfaces, and there is a need for the Juniper routers to have a more intuitive web interface.
EP
Network Engineer at Technical University of Crete
Jan 29, 2020
In terms of improvement, I would like for it to effectively protect against the broadcast storms, multicast storms, and DDoS attacks.
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it_user1290105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 24, 2020
One thing that the product can do better is clustering. Rather than just having two of them, it would help if there was one cluster to extend to more notes in the cluster itself.
GM
Technical Account Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Mar 9, 2020
The solution needs to offer SDN features.
reviewer1083318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2020
If you are setting up a site-to-site VPN between a Juniper and Cisco device then you may encounter some issues.
JA
Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
May 13, 2020
Better documentation to assist with implementation would be helpful.
BS
Consultant at NE-Infracell
Jul 3, 2020
Enhancing the capacity would be a welcome improvement.
AE
Business Owner at Dropsoft
Nov 24, 2020
The web interface can be improved.
reviewer654672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner & General Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees
Dec 30, 2020
The third-level customer support coming from Juniper itself could be much better. To get assistance from Juniper, we sometimes have to wait for weeks and months. I don't really appreciate that. Their support should be faster.