Juniper today trumpeted the fact that its EX Series Ethernet Switches have posted four consecutive quarters of revenue growth through 2Q09. Its EX series has surpassed one million ports shipped, according to the most recent Dell’Oro Ethernet Switching Market Report.
The Juniper press release says:
"Juniper’s EX Series switch product revenue for 2Q09 grew 44 percent over the previous quarter, and 312 percent over the same quarter last year. The product line’s ongoing success is derived from substantial traction in several industry segments, such as government, higher-education, manufacturing and financial services, including the ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext’s consolidated global data centers."
Dell' Oro says that North American companies were buying the lion's share of Ethernet switches, where port shipments grew by roughly 20 percent over last quarter. Juniper hints that its EX Series is one of the main reasons for the market's growth, asserting that its switch revenue is growing "faster than any enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 switch vendor entering the market in the previous decade." Numbers, particularly percentages, tell only part of the story. This statistic could mean that more users are turning to Juniper for new switches. It could also mean that Juniper is commanding more revenue (higher prices) for the switches they sell.
Do you think users are paying more for Juniper switches?
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JunOS is the reason
Jim,
I am an SE with a VAR, and we sell a lot of Juniper gear. I can tell you that one of the reasons we see interest in the EX switches is that they are attractively priced, and the versatility and ease of use of JunOS. Once customers get over the initial hurdle of "oh oh, the CLI doesn't look like IOS", especially if they used Linux/Unix before, it's smooth sailing from there on. Oh, and Juniper has the best stacking (Virtual Chassis) technology on the market right now. Just my 2 cents.
David.
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EX Series Growth
The EX provides a nice progression against the Cat 6509 that the Nexus does not address. Cisco looks to have backed themselves into a corner by not extending the 65XX and banking it all on the Nexus. While a great FOCE switch, the Nexus is not a enterprise wiring closet solution like the Cat 65XX or EX. And NX-OS on the Nexus is not the same as IOS, so the user does have to learn new commands structures.
So Juniper is less expensive and Cisco is backed into a corner
Jim is on vacation this week and I'm helping him out by posting to the Cisco Subnet blog. This is the age old delema, isn't it? How can Cisco institute new changes in its OS without making its users have to face a learning curve. And if they have to face a learning curve, and the competitor's offering is less expensive, that kind of opens the door for Juniper (and others). Should Cisco have done something differently with the NX-OS to have kept that door closed?
-- Julie Bort, Cisco Subnet site editor
What do Energy Sciences
What do Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Large Hadron Collider have in common? They ride on Juniper. Anyone with an open mind and a clue will never look back once they see the benefits and power of JUNOS versus MSDOS-like IOS. Furthermore, the superior engineering of Juniper under-the-hood is the reason it's designed to survive and thrive in the internet wild under worst case conditions unlike Cisco gear with all of its compromises that we all grown familiar with such as "damn if you do and damn if you don't" in regards to enabling ACL, turning on one feature and expecting it'll break something else, etc. Look here to see what vendor's gear ESNET has installed, planning to upgrade to and who's getting the boot on pages 4, 6 and 8 of this PowerPoint document:
http://www.es.net/pub/esnet-doc/ESCC-Feb-2009/ESnet_ESCC_Presentation_-_Winter_2009_2.ppt
Emmm, marketing machine?
How is the presentation entitled "Winter 2009" when it's still the summer 2009?
It seems this report is showing a successful beginning of an implementation of Juniper boxes. Great for them, Cisco has thousands or tens of thousands of successful deployments of an end-to-end solution. This network is pure routing with no extra services turned on, why not look to Huawei for an even cheaper solution?
As a soon-to-be former Cisco
As a soon-to-be former Cisco customer, are you Cisco types really that stupid? Page 4 covers Jul through Dec 2008 and winter ending Mar 2009 on page 6.
You guys fully know you can't compete on technical merit so you spread FUD but that will only get you so far. It's a joke that TAC blames spontaneous reboot our internet facing Cisco routers on cosmic rays when in reality it's your vulnerable DOS like IOS that's croaking.
Here's another customer you can label a Juniper salesman because he sees the light that Cisco is garbage. He must not know how to write Cisco ACL's either, huh?
See url for the full discussion thread.
http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2009-February/012591.html
"After doing further investigation, I found that in-fact my Cisco-vxr Npe-g2 and g1 in the path (between M7i and customer router) suffered the Dos and due to cpu saturation the bgp flapped. Earlier I did not noticed because the cpu utilization graph of Cisco showed only 50% in npe-g2 and 80% in npe-g1 and straightened perhaps it was not responding mrtg polling, however "show proc cpu history" showed the different story.
M7i was not affected...bravo Juniper..!
Thanks everyone.
Regards,
Samit"
yo.. Large Hadron Collider
yo.. Large Hadron Collider does not run on Juniper. It uses Force10, as per this CERN video will tell you all about it >
http://www.force10networks.com/reliable_networking/player/?rndr=2
"What do Energy Sciences" Written by a Juniper Employee, I bet
Oh come on, now - This piece is too polished and partisan to have been written by anyone outside Junipers PR machine. The Cisco ACL soundbyte comes straight from Junipers competitive playbook. It's FUD - Cisco's ACLs work fine, thank you. If you're unable to write coherent ACLs, that doesn't say much about you.
What's more, do you REALLY REALLY want to play the "Look how many people use our product" self-validation game against a Cisco.... I mean seriously? Do you?
Anyone with internet facing
Anyone with internet facing Cisco equipment will become or has been a victim of Darwin's modified theory of "Survival of the internet fittest". Cisco is the weakest link on the internet as it only takes single digit Mbit traffic, far from even saturating a pipe, to remove you from the internet. Even worse is the traffic can be adapted to attack your core network. You think business as usual for your lan and wan? Think again unless you ride on Juniper which is immune out-of-the-box. Why do you think all the advanced research organizations such as ESNET, Internet2 and many others standardize on Juniper? It's because someone there has a clue.
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