We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can interact with other vendors better than Cisco, which is a good point of AirWave. It is easy to use, and its reporting is good."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"This solution is definitely stable."
"The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"AirWave definitely helps us troubleshoot and get to the root cause of the issues. It gives you an excellent indication of what's going on within your network at different locations. You can get to the area, take a look at the AirWave analysis, and make informed decisions."
"It's scalable because it's licensed per device and we bought licenses with each device. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability."
"The most valuable features are the error log and intrusion log. It also provides an overview of your assets. It gives a good database for wireless coverage."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The integration point."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"I would try to integrate more products from different vendors in future releases. Because that's really good features that Aruba Airway has, but it's so limited."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"The platform is complicated to use."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 17 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Airwave writes "The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Fortinet FortiManager and Huawei eSight, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI. See our Aruba Airwave vs. DX Spectrum report.
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