Sunday, September 12, 2010

The Best Juniper Routers or the Best Network Routers Ever

The Best Routers Ever!  Go Juniper Networks!
Juniper Networks has a complete line of Juniper routers that meet the demands for any business network. To be specific, the Juniper SRX series routers are the best router Juniper offers having multiple features of a router, firewall and gateway as one. If your company or organization has multiple computers set up, chances are you are already using a network router or network switch. However, if you you optimal performance, you should definitely switch in using Juniper SRX routers.

For small businesses: I recommend the SRX100 or the SRX210.
For medium-sized businesses: I recommend the SRX210 or SRX240.
For large businesses: I recommend the SRX650.
For campuses and data centers, I recommend the SRX3400, SRX3600, SRX5600 or SRX5800.

Are there alternatives in using Juniper routers in my network?
Yes, Cisco Systems has been developing network routers for quite some time now and have the largest presence in the networking hardware world. Foundry Networks, now known as Brocade, also has a decent selection of network routers that run a bit less expensive than Cisco or Juniper. Nortel Networks also has network routers although I would honestly stick to a Cisco, Juniper or Brocade solution.

What if I want to use Juniper routers but I'm stuck with Cisco?
Most network equipment resellers offer a "Buy it Back" program that allows you to trade your old Cisco routers to apply as a discount off a purchase of brand new Juniper Networks routers.

Juniper SRX as a firewall, how does this compare to Cisco ASA firewalls?
With a Juniper solution, you are getting extremely better performance for the price. You simply can not go wrong in using Juniper vs. Cisco.

For reference in what a network router is
A router is an electronic device that interconnects two or more computer networks, and selectively interchanges packets of data between them. Each data packet contains address information that a router can use to determine if the source and destination are on the same network, or if the data packet must be transferred from one network to another. Where multiple routers are used in a large collection of interconnected networks, the routers exchange information about target system addresses, so that each router can build up a table showing the preferred paths between any two systems on the interconnected networks.

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