Juniper SRX vs SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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I believe that SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is well suited for any business that needs to monitor critical infrastructure to provide high availability. Small business with non critical equipment that can afford to be down for a few hours I would say that it would be less appropriate.

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Real Estate Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Juniper SRX

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

The ease of use for the CLI is a huge benefit. Unlike the Cisco platform, all changes are implemented in a commit statement vs. live on the box.
The devices hit a price point that is very competitive.
Dynamic routing support is a huge win.

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Eric Stephenson

Staff System Engineer

CommScopeTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Hardware health status
Power supply status of the Network Devices
Transmit/Discard errors
High Latency

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Cons

My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.

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Bear Golightly

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville WrapsWholesale, 51-200 employees

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Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Patching
Hardware firmware recommendation

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Engineer in Information Technology

Real Estate Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Juniper SRX 6.5

Based on 3 answers

This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Juniper SRX is significantly better in every category.Cisco ASA was terrible. The config is unintuitive and not easy to manage. Cisco left the ASA abandoned from any kind of meaningful software updates for around a decade.

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Randy Carpenter

Vice President

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

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I selected SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for 2 main reasons, functionality and support

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Real Estate Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Although I'm not a part of the budgeting process, I do know that by using Juniper SRXs, we were able to get the products we needed with much less issues and justifications as other product we've purchased in the past.

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Robert Beck

Network Engineer

FireEye, IncComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment
Quick and informative alerts on new issues
Alerting is the main key for a quick remediation on unexpected issues.

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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

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Juniper SRX

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Juniper SRX

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Juniper SRX

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Juniper SRX vs SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Juniper SRX

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Feature Rating Comparison

Firewall

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

Cons

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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