We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant and Aruba Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Wireless LAN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"The simplicity is great."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"The solution is stable."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Marvis, the AI-driven network management system."
"The central management of multiple devices is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It's a good solution for small businesses because it's easy to figure out. It's simple to set Aruba up in any configuration, like link aggregation or static loads. It's suitable for less complicated configurations, whereas Cisco devices are bigger and more difficult to implement."
"I've worked with other products, but I prefer Aruba because of its cost and simplicity."
"The most valuable feature of this product is that it is easily deployed."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Captive Portal, which we employ for our guest network. It enables us to create a separate virtual subnet for guests, ensuring their network traffic remains isolated from our office network. Another valuable feature is its role-based access control. This functionality allows us to assign different access privileges to users based on their roles within the organization."
"When users want to migrate from one location to another, they face no problems with connectivity."
"The quick setup and automatic code embedded in one access point is really useful."
"I can implement it at small sites, and I can also implement it at mid-sized locations. It is very flexible. It is really nice and useful for customers who have many small sites."
"APs are very easy to configure to the network once they contact the controller."
"It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network."
"With Aruba Wireless Controller, all our access points are connected to one controller. Through that controller, we can actually handle each access point; we can disconnect or connect that access point, and then we can tell, or see, or allow how many users are, or should be, connected through that access point."
"Aruba Central is a valuable feature because I can monitor access points remotely, even if I'm not in the office."
"If we really want to know where a specific user is connected, it gives us the ability to see that and how that user is actually receiving. We can know the speed and their IP, their MAC address and, most of the time, how much bandwidth they're using per day."
"Although there are other solutions available and some with a lower initial cost, they don't offer the same level of integration with IoT as this solution without having to add additional hardware, which ends up costing more."
"What I like most about Aruba Wireless is its stability, functionality, and performance."
"Its graphical user interface is designed to be user-friendly, making work more efficient."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"The solution is expensive."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"The product’s GUI must be improved."
"The tool's support quality has changed since HPE acquired it. It is also impossible to tell the log dates."
"The product can be improved by adding a clear interface."
"It is good as it is. If anything, its reporting could be improved."
"Aruba Instant is a simple and scalable solution that works well, but the costs you incur from access points could be cheaper."
"The tool's customer service should improve."
"The restart time should be improved."
"The management component is difficult to understand and not very user-friendly which increases deployment time."
"The vendor should include multiple additional protocols"
"Customer service really needs to be improved. If the customer support was better, I would recommend it to others more than I do now. Considering that you have to pay yearly for support, I expect a higher level of support."
"We need security features to recognize the traffic source and to apply Zero Trust security."
"The user interface could be improved in Aruba Wireless. This would make the setup easier."
"The ARM functionality does not always seem to perform how I would like. In some cases, I have had to manually assign channels to avoid channel confusion."
"The solution is now taking eight to 12 months to deliver the product."
"Aruba Wireless can improve the assigning of access points. We have times that the nearest access point is not assigned but one far away. The integration between access points could improve."
"If you want a centralized management system that is able to manage all your networking devices such as the wireless, the switch, the routers, and the firewall, then Aruba may not be the one, because Aruba doesn't do firewalls."
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Aruba Instant is ranked 6th in Wireless LAN with 44 reviews while Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 139 reviews. Aruba Instant is rated 8.6, while Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant writes "A highly stable and easy-to-deploy solution that is free and provides excellent deployment guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". Aruba Instant is most compared with Omada Access Points, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Cisco Wireless, whereas Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and Huawei Wireless. See our Aruba Instant vs. Aruba Wireless report.
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