Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series vs. Juniper EX Series Switches

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Based on the former Force10 switches, the Dell PowerSwitch S and Z Series Ethernet switches are a varied series of data center switches.
$3,002
one-time fee (approx)
Juniper EX Series Switches
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Juniper 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 PowerSwitch S/Z SeriesJuniper EX Series Switches
Editions & Modules
S3124
$3,002.00
one-time fee (approx)
S3124F
$3,354.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4128F-ON
$6,582.00
one-time fee (approx)
S5248F-ON
$8,918.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4148F-ON
$9,340.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4148U-ON
$11,516.00
one-time fee (approx)
S6010-ON
$11,532.00
one-time fee (approx)
S5296F-ON
$17,689.00
one-time fee (approx)
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 PowerSwitch S/Z SeriesJuniper EX Series Switches
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is dependent on type of switches and the vendor selling them.
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Community Pulse
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z SeriesJuniper EX Series Switches
Considered Both Products
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series

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Juniper EX Series Switches
Chose Juniper EX Series Switches
The rollback, commit and confirm are the biggest players in the game. Juniper is the only one who has those features, so I believe they have a leg up in the game. The CLI is one of the easiest to work with.
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z SeriesJuniper EX Series Switches
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.5
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z SeriesJuniper EX Series Switches
Likelihood to Recommend
Dell Technologies
Quick system and flexible features allow easy networking within the entire company and the network distribution is excellent and easy via this Dell platform. The easy issues reporting using the production capability is good and also securing the entire organization network from various cyber threats and securing all the business information within the system and even the server performance management capability with the product is excellent.
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Juniper Networks
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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Pros
Dell Technologies
  • Improve connectivity
  • Control network coverage
  • Monitor flow of data
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Juniper Networks
  • Very stable.
  • Cost efficient
  • Easy management
  • Great Juniper 24*7 TAC support
  • Different variants available for different requirements.
  • Easy to replace faulty hardware
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Cons
Dell Technologies
  • To non technical users, training is a must.
  • Managing various created networks for some users.
  • Detecting some network performance issues is also not easy to the beginners.
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Juniper Networks
  • 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.
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Usability
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Juniper Networks
The Mist portal is extremely easy to use. I only have a few issues with it. The configuration between Mist and the CLI is not uniform. If you push some command line configurations to the switch, they won't be mirrored in Mist. You need to use the CLI portion on the switch config page to push some CLI only configurations. If you want to remove those lines, you need remember to do the inverse of the config. You need to make sure your juniper admins understand this as well. Simply removing the line from the CLI text box of the Mist page does not remove the config line from the switch itself.
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Support Rating
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Juniper Networks
When you open ticket, normally a L2 support engineer request support file and give you a valid fast solution. They replace switch if no solution are available due to minimize downtime
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Alternatives Considered
Dell Technologies
Due to Dell EMC powerswitch s series have reliable and flexible connevtivity and easily integrated with current system of organization and provided solution we are looking for within friendly budget. Data flow managing help us to customize data within time enable to get report timely and increased overall performance and production of the organization
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Juniper Networks
Juniper EX Switches are far more reliable than NETGEAR Ethernet Switches. The Juniper EX Series Switches offer a wider scope of options for configuration. The EX switches can be deployed faster and easier to configure. The Juniper EX Series Switches offer more value for their price point than most switches on the market, in my opinion
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Return on Investment
Dell Technologies
  • Great tool to secure the entire business network.
  • Effective issues management within the company networking systems.
  • Data easy management and transportation through the secure environment.
  • Reporting is good and easy.
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Juniper Networks
  • The Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches have provided a life span beyond what our replacement cycle allots, which allows us to have more time to budget for replacements.
  • The initial purchase price is very competitive with other enterprise network switching companies.
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