Comments on: Cisco or Juniper, Which one should I choose?

By: Asheesh

Asheesh — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:32:06 +0000

Hi,

My name is Asheesh. I am new in IP field.Basically i am working for the O&M.
Can you Please tell me how these routers are chosen for a network. Its not just about Cisco Vs Juniper but if i talk only about cisco how it is decided that 7600 series should be chosen or CSR router or GSR router..
I will be obliged if you can give me an example of router selection procedure with a new hypothetical network having some specific requirement.
Warm Regards,

By: Mohamed Salah

Mohamed Salah — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:26:55 +0000

Hello Wael

juniper is very strong product and Its build on ISP’s levels from the start so its minded with avilability and strong performance i think you should think about juniper and the most strong thing about products is bulid on junos platform so its same to manager from every product you buy from juniper and you want find that dff between cisco routers and switches and firewalls its all dff platform if you have anything to ask about please send me an email

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:30:56 +0000

Dear all,
Have anyone use to huawei “Router”?
It’s always meet customer request.

By: Ahmed Elhoussiny

Ahmed Elhoussiny — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:46:33 +0000

Hello Wael,
I agree with you, its hard to compare, but regarding CAPEX,OPEX…cost, i think juniper will always be better, for Technical assistance ofcorse cisco got the stong arm of TAC.

I would not suggest any one to have the CISCO IOS XR 3.6.1 running in the core due to its bugs & capabilities.

Thanks & B.regards
Ahmed Elhoussiny,2x CCIE# 21988 (R&S-SP)
Network Consultant & Cisco Academy Instructor

By: Wael Osama

Wael Osama — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:02:22 +0000

@mark

I believe that Juniper is adding too much to the market by the very strong competition. Juniper has very strong portfolio and was filling a lot of gaps in Cisco’s portfolio in which Cisco is filling now with new platforms like ASR series. In this network upgrade we brought some new Juniper boxes to the network too.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:32:17 +0000

We replaced cisco with Juniper on our core equipment (P) and got very happy on the decision, the price and performance was better, we had much less problem with juniper than we had with cisco and juniper is much more flexible when we need to implement some features. We left cisco just for the PE devices.

By: jgitau

jgitau — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:40:28 +0000

We are going through the exact process (still at the evaluation phase though).

in our case the evaluation team is divided into a technical team that only bothers itself with the technical end of things and feeds the rest of the evaluation teams. finally all the team leads decide on a product….Egypt seems to be moving really fast in this area since most vendors actually brought in guys from their Egypt office for the presentations:-)…