3Com Baseline Switches (Discontinued) vs Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches

Likelihood to Recommend

As our company is growing we need to be able to upgrade our equipment. It is great for smaller companies.

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Employee in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

They work great as core switches, data center switches, top of rack switches. They can even serve as routers, their routing capability is great, except for where you need lots of routing processing power. I would not use many of them for branch office switches though, due to noise and slowness of bootup

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Engineer in Information Technology

Publishing Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

Great product used on a budget.
It gets the job done.
Better switches than most competitors.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

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Routing.
Switching.
Firewall.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Our network is slow.
Feels like things are not working properly at times.
Old equipment.

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Employee in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

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J-Web web UI is not as easy to navigate as the JunOS command line.
Interface identifiers (GE-0/0/0, GE-0/1/0, GE-0/2/0) with ports/modules can be inconsistent from front to the back of switches.

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Craig Brady

Senior Systems Analyst

City of Santa MariaGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

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Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches 8.1

Based on 4 answers

The best in the business but not perfect. The rollback and commit features are the best-seller.

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Michael Haberkern

Network Engineer Supervisor

City of Santa MariaGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I used Cisco and Cisco is a great product but more on the expensive side. This is a great product for smaller companies.

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Employee in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cisco: expensive, cluttered list of models, expensive (and poor) support, OS is different across platforms, difficult to manage, no commit/confirm/rollback
Ubiquiti: inexpensive, basically no proper support (community support only)
Brocade: OS is Cisco-wannabe (with all of the bad), company has been broken up so support is questionable.

Juniper: obvious choice

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Randy Carpenter

Vice President

First Network Group, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Great price.
Great product for small company.
It was great before we expanded.

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Employee in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

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Definitely helped for rapid network replacement, we were able to build data centers in a matter of weeks
Return on investment is greatest for data centers, as the commit confirmed feature reduces the need to go on site for making some changes
Flexibility of stacking is is another feature that makes ROI more positive

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Engineer in Information Technology

Publishing Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No