Juniper MX Series Routers vs Juniper Session Smart Router comparison

"The flexibility of the MPLS configuration is very good."

"The most valuable features for us were related to our transition into MPLS technology, specifically for BPN and VPN services."

"Juniper MX Series Routers are easy to configure and easy to back up."

"The full Internet DGP is a valuable feature."

"The stability of Juniper is better than Cisco's."

"I have found the most useful features to be layered VPNs, IPsec, VPLS, and firewall filters."

"The performance is good."

"Juniper Enterprise Routers is very flexible."

"They provided us with a customized product according to our requirements."

"The most valuable feature of Juniper Session Smart Router is its unique SDR channel."

"The solution is especially Session's smart, application-aware, AI-based."

"Customer service is very prompt."

"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."

"It is not scalable, unfortunately."

"The solution could improve by providing enhancements to built-in SDN or SDWAN."

"We'd appreciate it if they had a better GUI. It would be more flexible for the customers that way."

"The third-level customer support coming from Juniper itself could be much better. To get assistance from Juniper, we sometimes have to wait for weeks and months. I don't really appreciate that. Their support should be faster."

"While it is challenging to pinpoint specific areas for enhancement, there is room for better support and updates for Ansible."

"Finding market expertise is hard."

"There is room for improvement in pricing. The product could be cheaper for smaller networks."

"The initial setup is not easy."

"Juniper Session Smart Router can improve the integration for Wi-Fi devices and add additional Sassy deployments."

"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."

"Regarding improvement, we still need to see what it can do."

"Juniper Session Smart Router could be better in terms of software performance."

"I would rate it around a three. While I'm not deeply involved in pricing discussions, I believe it is comparatively more affordable than Cisco."

"The pricing of Juniper MX Series Routers is okay compared to other technologies."

"There is a license for this solution and the price is very competitive. The cost is less expensive than some competitors, such as Cisco. There are additional costs for support licenses."

"The prices for Juniper MX Series Routers are reasonable."

"I would rate the pricing model a seven out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. It is not cheap."

"The solution is more expensive compared to other solutions."

"An additional license can be purchased for support of a next-generation firewall."

"$300 to $400 is the hardware cost and for licensing cost, it may be around, for support and all, $100 per year."

"It is a simple bandwidth-based license and the orchestration comes bundled with the solution by default."

"We are currently renegotiating the offer for the licenses and the license bundle model. The license for an ISP has to be different from the license for an end customer. This is something we are currently renegotiating with Juniper, but, of course, the pricing for the licensing is always an issue when you want to get more customers."