Juniper vs Cisco

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I am currently working in a Data Center and let two men into their rack today. I noticed they had some Juniper equipment and said, "so you prefer Juniper over Cisco?" The one guy started talking and said that it's way better, almost as if there is no comparison. He said to me that "knowing Cisco isn't going to hurt, people will begin to recognize you but Juniper is where it's at."
When I started hearing this, I thought the guy was on crack. Really, what do I know I graduated three months ago and started work two months ago. Have started studying for my CCNA and have never laid hands on Juniper equipment. I'm just starting out. Is there any validity to what these guys were talking about or is it just their personal opinion? Because I see Cisco owning the market, I'm opening racks almost everyday and that was the first piece of Juniper equipment I've seen in two months lol.
When I started hearing this, I thought the guy was on crack. Really, what do I know I graduated three months ago and started work two months ago. Have started studying for my CCNA and have never laid hands on Juniper equipment. I'm just starting out. Is there any validity to what these guys were talking about or is it just their personal opinion? Because I see Cisco owning the market, I'm opening racks almost everyday and that was the first piece of Juniper equipment I've seen in two months lol.
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We only pulled our last Foundry FastIron access switches a few months ago and there might still be a couple of core devices running.
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I'm strictly routing and switching with some security sprinkled in and I do prefer JUNOS over IOS for a ton of reasons. You should try it if you've never used it before. The new IOS variants have a lot of similarity with JUNOS especially IOS XR.
In a service provider environment Juniper is the best period they dominate this market hard.
As others said though, starting out learn Cisco. It's the most widely used and the learning material is abundant. Just don't get in the "Cisco way is the only way" rut a lot of old timers seem to be stuck in.