We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant On Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Regarding the feature, my clients are currently favoring it because it enables them to switch back to phone functionality."
"The solution has a simple deployment and zero border."
"The solution is plug-and-play and auto-configured."
"It is quite easy to maintain from the software point of view."
"It is easy for deployment and configuration."
"Instant On Switches' best feature is the 1930, which is stackable."
"The solution is suitable for small businesses and small offices."
"The tool's best part is the commercials. Its pricing is lower compared to other enterprise products. We pitch the product to customers who have budget constraints. Its implementation is plug-and-play."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"The ability to manage them is the big valuable feature. The ease of use is great."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is simple to use. I am also impressed with the tool's GUI and CLI."
"The High Bandwidth AV-over-IP functionality of these switches has been fantastic, especially in leaf-and-spine. We've been able to build redundancy and they seem to outperform even the Cisco Catalyst, which is about twice as expensive as the M-series switches are."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"Remote management is the most important thing for us. And monitoring, of course, allows us to see when something is wrong with a client. We get notified that an access point is down, for instance, or that there are too many clients on one access point, so that we can log into the portal and manage the solution with the client instantly, from either a laptop or a cell phone, with the Insight app."
"In the next version, they should add a firewall from a single source."
"The solution’s GUI should be improved a bit."
"The pricing is competitive but could be improved."
"The support needs improvement."
"In general, mostly in Instant On series, if we could have much more control on the switches, at least. We'd like a CLI access so that, when we want to do some advanced configurations we could."
"You cannot use many VLANs, like VLAN 10, VLAN 20, VLAN 30, and VLAN 100 on Aruba Instant On AP."
"The product's startup speed is very bad, as it is very slow."
"Room for improvement would be if they consolidated administration from multiple locations."
"The product's stability has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"When the power does go out, or if we do a soft shutdown, some of the transceivers or the monitor don't recognize when it turns back on, so I have to physically unplug it and plug it back in and then it works. We're working with NETGEAR's engineers to figure out why that's happening."
"The security features must be improved."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"An area for improvement would be creating a wizard that can do a lot of common stuff. Instead of having some manual configuration for common features, they may want to have a single wizard that could be put in place which would let you walk through creating multiple VLANs and different routes between VLANs in a wizard. Then, you wouldn't have to dig in so deep."
"Though the tool's useability is good, it has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Netgear switches could be cheaper."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 22 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. Aruba Instant On Switches is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant On Switches writes "A very stable tool that needs to offer better startup speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Aruba Instant On Switches is most compared with HPE ProCurve, Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco Nexus, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and HPE ProCurve. See our Aruba Instant On Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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