Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500) vs. Juniper Session Smart Router

Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)

20 Reviews and Ratings

Juniper Session Smart Router

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)	Score4 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500) is a highly secure and highly available access-routing platform for service providers.	N/A
Juniper Session Smart Router	N/A	N/A	The Juniper Session Smart Router fuels an advanced, service-centric networking solution that takes software-defined routing and SD-WAN to a new level. Presented as ideal for today’s digital businesses, the Session Smart Router enables agile, secure, and resilient WAN connectivity with breakthrough economics and simplicity. The solution boasts delivering a flexible, application-aware network fabric that meets stringent enterprise performance, security, and…	N/A

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Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)

Juniper Session Smart Router

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)	Juniper Session Smart Router
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	Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)	Juniper Session Smart Router
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User Ratings
	Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)	Juniper Session Smart Router
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)	Juniper Session Smart Router
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Well suited for10G aggregation at network edge. Small managed networks such as school districts or distributed enterprise campus. Not well suited to RPHY aggregation at network core — queuing in NCS540 results in jitter and poor RPHY performance. Allow port license purchases in smaller units. Better support for SLA performance monitoring capabilities would allow use as a box for 10G aggregation for Carrier Ethernet NNI handoff. Incentivized Ben Wiechman Director of Network Strategy and Engineering Read full review	Juniper Networks No answers on this topic
Pros	Cisco Switching. Routing. Access. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Juniper Networks No answers on this topic
Cons	Cisco MPLS feature set on NCS520 Full support for RFC2544, Y.1564 across the product line Greater clarity of the impact of smaller buffers on NCS540 when compared to other Qumran chipsets — some use cases like RPHY aggregation at network core are not a good fit. Incentivized Ben Wiechman Director of Network Strategy and Engineering Read full review	Juniper Networks No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Cisco Cisco NCS is smaller and for us newer. Better cost with similar capabilities. Incentivized Ignacy Mikos Network Administrator Read full review	Juniper Networks No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Cisco Relatively low cost access layer device. Very cost effective means of getting 10G interfaces. Some features available on other devices out of the box are more complex or absent on the NCS without licensing or assistance. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Juniper Networks No answers on this topic
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