NETWORK SECURITY APPLIANCES
Cisco earned the top spot in the 2008 CRN Channel Champions Survey network security appliances category, getting high praises from VARs for both presales and post-sales support, but falling behind competing vendors when it comes to down to dollars.
Cisco scored highest in several technical criteria for its security appliances, including product quality and reliability, where it took the criterion, earning its widest margin, 6.2 points, over Juniper. Management and configuration features and scalability also earned Cisco the top spot. Those results gave the networking powerhouse an overall technical satisfaction rating of 88.1, compared to Juniper's 85.5. [READ MORE]
