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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dell PowerEdge

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ADell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers, offering a range of options from cost-efficient one-socket servers to four-socket servers designed to support intensive and critical data center workloads.N/A

    Juniper EX Series Switches

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AJuniper Networks offers the EX Series Ethernet switches, as cloud-grade switches designed for the converged enterprise branch, campus, and data center, and for service providers. They address growing enterprise demands for high availability, unified communications, and virtualization.

    $1,680

    one-time fee approx

    Pricing
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Editions & Modules
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    EX2300-C
    $1680
    one-time fee approx
    EX4100-F-12P
    $4,585.00
    one-time fee approx
    EX230
    $5830
    one-time fee approx
    EX4100-24MP
    $8,640.00
    one-time fee approx
    EX4100-F-48P
    $8,665.00
    one-time fee approx
    EX4300-48P
    $9,169.99
    one-time fee approx
    EX4400-24X-AFI
    $9,824.99
    one-time fee approx
    EX3400-48P
    $12,322.99
    one-time fee approx
    EX4400-24MP
    $14,315.00
    one-time fee approx
    EX4400-48MP
    $15,510.00
    one-time fee approx
    EX4600
    $31,273.99
    one-time fee approx
    EX4650
    $33,030.00
    one-time fee approx
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is dependent on type of switches and the vendor selling them.
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    Community Pulse
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
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    Dell Technologies
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Ethernet Switches
    Comparison of Ethernet Switches features of Dell PowerEdge and Juniper EX Series Switches
    Feature
    Dell PowerEdge
    -
    Ratings
    Juniper EX Series Switches
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Management Interface00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Quality of Service (QoS)00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Switch Scalability00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Switch Redundancy00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Link Aggregation (LACP)00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    HPE ProLiant DL
    Score8.8 out of 10
    RUCKUS Ethernet Switches
    Score1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Cisco Ethernet Switches
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    9.7
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Dell PowerEdgeJuniper EX Series Switches
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dell Technologies
    An excellent warranty and excellent technical assistance can be expected from the PowerEdge C Series, which comes from a well-known brand with a long track record in the market. Scalability, physical space optimization and performance and dependability for handling sensitive and vital data like databases and ERP systems that are fairly sophisticated are just some of the benefits we get from Dell gear, which saves us resources and energy by up to 40%.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Juniper EX Series Switches are well suited for my environment (school system) and my staff who don't have a lot of experience in configuring and troubleshooting all the various switches and platforms. Juniper EX Series Switches have been a real blessing to us. Everything I need to do with them is easy to learn and I've experiences no problems with them not behaving properly.
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    Pros
    Dell Technologies
    • Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
    • Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
    • Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Commit Confirmed - saves lots of headache and possibly travel if a remote goes awry
    • Stacking - switches can be stacked together easily with regular network cables, using any port
    • L3 routing on any switch model, even BGP with the right license
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Dell Technologies
    • The value of 24x7 support is expensive, the value of 8x5NBD is more attractive.
    • The other superior models of the C series are more expensive.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Virtual chassis new switch has overwritten existing config if not performed in a particular way.
    • Applying a configuration to a range of interfaces could be done in a better way.
    • Applying firewall rules to multiple security zones could be done a little more efficiently.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dell Technologies
    It is the best server in the market.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Dell Technologies
    The Dell PowerEdge R range is just intuitive when you have skills engineers managing them in-house, although even with new members of staff on the team, the learning curve is very low providing they have previous general service hardware management experience. From the specification through to the management of this range, the usability is excellent.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I can't speak highly enough. It requires no prior networking ability to succeed using these switches. The Mist console makes it so anyone with a technical side can use them efficiently. The configuration copies over easily. A Juniper EX4100 switch can literally just be plugged into power and an ethernet cable and work. Add the code to the Mist and you can see what you need to see
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Dell Technologies
    We consider Dell's support to be best-in-class compared to other solutions and is also reasonably priced. Their SLA targets have almost always been met, except for minor occasions that have had extenuating circumstances. The service staff is also professional and thorough. Overall, we are very satisfied with the level of support we receive.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Many times when contacting Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches support, it seems that it is easiest for support to recommend a straight replacement (RMA) instead of taking time to walk through a solution on the faulty system. We find we get better help from a third-party consulting firm that has Juniper certified technicians or professionals on staff. They take the time to explain processes and workflow, which Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches support seems to shy away from.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dell Technologies
    Installation was easy.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Dell Technologies
    Against hp servers, Dell has outperformed them in terms of incidents regarding hardware memory parts. With the Dell PowerEdge R series servers we have not had any incidents regarding memory modules. On the other hand, with HP servers, we encountered a lot of failures regarding memory modules during the first year of implementation.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Similar cloud platform to manage switches and able to update everything there. Going from on-prem config back up to the cloud doesn’t work as well in either place. They want you to manage in the cloud only but no good way to push from on-premises to cloud and update that way.
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    Return on Investment
    Dell Technologies
    • From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
    • Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
    • Increased security of the move are important.
    • The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
    • Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Price of Juniper for the performance is much better than the other leading vendor.
    • I have had minimal problems which frees me to focus on other areas.
    • Mist is intuitive and comes with free training. My Junior network admins were able to get up to speed quickly.
    Incentivized
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