what is Juniper Networks

 Juniper has made steady gains in the marketplace for some time, and although they are unlikely to displace Cisco any time soon, Juniper is well worth consideration as a technology choice — and also as a career direction. In this post, we take a look at where and why Juniper is better than its competition and why it’s a good bet both for users and for networking professionals.

Cisco presents itself as a one-stop shop for a wide range of networking needs, including enterprise and service provider networks, data center networks, mobility solutions, network security, cloud, conferencing, and collaboration.

Juniper does not try to be all things to all people. Their focus is clearly on providing top of the line solutions for routing, switching, and security. Juniper’s reputation is for speed and throughput; their products avoid the feature overload that may tend to slow down the equivalent Cisco product.

Juniper’s Junos operating system is much more modular and robust than Cisco’s feature-rich IOS. If one Junos process crashes, it doesn’t necessarily bring down the entire network node. And that should make you sleep easier at night.

 Exceptional value for specific needs

Juniper — like Cisco, HPE and other small-share vendors — can satisfy the core networking needs of most enterprise and service provider customers. When it comes to the bells and whistles, however, Cisco’s rich feature set will usually win out.

Juniper concentrated on engineering for high data throughput in the design of their products, first for ISP networks and then for enterprise customers. They use custom chips called ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) expressly designed for fast data transfer, rather than relying on general-purpose chips and software.

The bottom line is that with Juniper, you’re going to get great performance, but at a price point that is superior to their Cisco equivalents.

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