We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Mikrotik Router and Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches finishes slightly ahead of Mikrotik Router and Switches in this comparison. Aruba Switches offer high availability and support stacking; they are also easy to configure, very scalable, and very reliable. Users of Mikrotik Routers and Switches feel the solution lacks a wireless option and that it is a bit outdated and clunky.
"I like the number of available throughputs and its ability to have different speeds of ethernet cards or fiber-optic SFPs. It's a core switch, and you can configure it as per your requirements. All the configuration details are well documented on the HP website or Aruba website, and one can easily refer to those and find all the relevant commands from the documentation itself. It's also easy to maintain this solution. It's also cheaper than competing products."
"The initial setup is quite easy."
"Aruba Central is very valuable to us."
"The most valuable features are the access point, fire control for clients, majority control, platform control in SSIGF, WiFi networking, and area monitoring."
"It's stable."
"We like the framework of fabric virtual switching."
"Management-wise, this is a good solution."
"This is a very stable product with good performance."
"Load balancing is one of the valuable features of the solution...In short, MikroTik provides a very user-friendly GUI option."
"They are very good at providing the bandwidth for multi-tenants and multi-dwelling units. We're managing WiFi hotspots for hundreds of locations, and the speed and performance are quite there. They also have very cheap 10G products that come with really good and flexible software. They are way cheaper than the top brands, and they're able to deliver the same performance and capabilities."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You can typically set them up in about 30 minutes."
"The pricing is very reasonable. It's not too expensive."
"It is a stable solution. I have been using the solution for a while, and I don't face any outages or trouble while using the solution."
"The flexible IP firewall and IP network address translation make it very easy to give access to internal services."
"We use the product for VPN."
"The stability is good."
"I am forced to consider changing products because other solutions have a better dashboard and a user-friendly interface."
"If we compare Aruba and Cisco at the data center layer, Cisco has its Nexus switch. Aruba provides the new 10000 series, but it does not compare with the Nexus switch."
"We have had problems with the cooling fans on these switches."
"I would like to see them integrate a monitoring solution."
"I would say that the customization of the switches could be easier to configure."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"I would like to see a lower price on the device."
"Technical support response time could be better."
"If the client wants bigger capacity, there may be some issues. That is, there may be issues with scalability."
"The ports could be improved, as certain areas may need to be terminated with a greater number of Ethernet ports. We initially faced challenges that hindered our network usage, especially with third-party applications that were not certified or supported. It took some time to streamline and resolve these issues."
"There needs to be better support for this solution in India. We have no local support."
"As far as improvements, there are basically only two things I would suggest. First, I think they should provide extensive training for the new releases of products, especially in the LTE space. Second, they could spend more time ensuring that their OS releases are more stable, rather than waiting for things to fall apart on the customer's premises before they make the necessary changes."
"I would like to see some content filtering with MikroTik Routers and Switches."
"Better security is always better. If they can continue to improve in this area, that would be ideal."
"The product's setup process could be easier."
"If the reporting functionality of the solution is considered, I think it is not good."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 6th in Ethernet Switches with 62 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Huawei Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Huawei Enterprise Routers and Juniper MX Series Routers. See our Aruba Switches vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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