Re: Cisco vs Juniper Security (OT)

That will remain to be see with the possible Junioer buy of Riverbed.
Although I feel that is more for their WAN optimazation product line.
I have used both and although Juniper does allow for ease of use,
Cisco remains (in my mind at least) a top player hands down.
Cisco's security product line is more refined, widely regarded as top-
notch and used in more enterprise environments. Even when not an end
to end architecture.
But truth be told what it boils down to is budget, ROI and staffing.
Least not forget executive management (at the cto levels) comfort in
whomever's product line. I think it's safe to say that no decision
maker is going to go with a brand they have not had experience with
out of fear of failure among other things.
Thanks kindly.

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Please excuse spelling errors

On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Johnny Phan <johnny_d_phan_at_hotmail.com>
wrote:

> To use Cisco or Juniper as a security device? This was a semi
> heated debate a
> few months ago. Things have changed so I think it's time to revisit
> this.
>
> Various engineers sided with Cisco and others with Juniper. There
> seemed to
> be some consensus though. Many people said that management is so
> much easier
> using the netscreen. Others said that Cisco support is tremendous.
> Now we
> can get that out of the way, let's revisit those issues. I am not
> talking
> about using another device management software. I am talking about
> straight
> out of the box, standalone device.
>
> The Juniper Netscreen is being phased out by devices runing JunOS,
> especially
> on the higher end devices, such as the netscreen 5400 being phased
> out and
> replaced by SRX. So now that Juniper have moved away from their
> bread and
> butter, I would imagine more people will now lean more toward Cisco.
>
> I could be way off on this of course since I am not in the security
> world.
>
> Let the fighting begin, again.
>
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