What is the difference between Huawei Switches and Juniper switches?
We all know that Cisco may be the leader of networking hardware manufacturers. Cisco switches also are good-quality and powerful. However, the price of Cisco switches is not the lowest. So, we can choose some good-quality but cost-less switches, such as Huawei switch, Juniper switch, etc.
Select Huawei or Juniper?
Let’s read this comparison chart of Huawei switches and Juniper switches.
Brand | Huawei Switches | Juniper Switches |
Innovations | ||
Support new capabilities without major upgrades | No current support for modular access points that support location based analytics and beacons/BLE. Only the AP4050DN has some modularity for IoT use cases. | No wireless platforms, and switching platforms are based on merchant silicon. |
Agility | ||
Improve experience for Apple users Promote a better user experience for business-relevant applications on all Apple devices. | Functionality can be supported only through manual QoS prioritization. | No |
High availability Support redundancy for business resiliency. | Huawei claims ISSU on some of its switches. | No |
Power resiliency for IoT and other devices Get an always-on environment for IoT and other devices that are powered by PoE, even when the switch reboots. | Huawei supports PoE and PoE+ PoH (95W) on a single S5700 platform. Power redundancy is 1:1 PoH (power over HDMI) (95W) on a single S5700 platform. | Juniper switches support PoE. |
Services for switching | ||
Depth | Huawei has a range of differentiated planning, design, and implementation services, but no clear or extensive messaging related to switching services. | Network Life-Cycle Services feature advisory, custom implementation, testing, onsite technical, remote operational, maintenance, remote managed, education, and certification services for switching support. Juniper recently acquired Mist Systems for Wi-Fi and indoor location services, which supports 802.11axready cognitive Wi-Fi switches. |
Level of network expertise for ease of adoption and deployment | Huawei offers several downloadable Quick Guides, including Quick Start, Configuration, Maintenance, and Upgrade guides. | Juniper offers an Enterprise Switching QuickStart program to help ensure a customer solution is operational. An onsite consultant develops the initial configuration and deployment of a switching environment. A knowledge transfer session, including a review of local implementation and configuration options, is available but is not intended as a substitute for training. |
Security | Network Security Design Service leverages a continuously updated database and six management and control technologies to provide designs for access security, transmission security, data security, access behavior control, and audit compliance. The network is properly divided into several security domains, based on customers’ business and network-security protection requirements. | Advisory security services include a Security Intelligence Readiness Evaluation, which provides information that helps thwart cyber attacks. It assesses site design and architecture for potential vulnerabilities, while preparing a summary of the assessment and recommendations. |
