We performed a comparison between Arista Networks Platform and Aruba Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What we like most is its performance to price ratio."
"They support open standard features."
"Arista Networks Platform has a feature that helps with monitoring and management."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The solution has good load latency. They're the market leader in this aspect right now."
"The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy."
"We find the CloudVision switching feature of this solution really useful."
"The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily."
"The most valuable feature is the security that these switches provide."
"The solution is easy to use and quick to deploy."
"The cloud configuration is the most valuable feature of this solution. Watching in the cloud, propagating the actual devices themselves and the management of devices that are remote."
"Aruba Central is very valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is the Aruba Smart Rate Port."
"This is a very stable product with good performance."
"It's a reliable product that you can depend on."
"All of the networking products that we use are Aruba, so we use Aruba Central to manage them."
"The community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more."
"They should have a more stable code."
"The overall price of the Arista Networks Platform is expensive. It should be reduced."
"The CVP management platform needs to be improved."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"A smoother transition between ISPs during failover would improve the user experience by reducing unnecessary notifications and interruptions."
"The stability of this solution needs to be improved as part of the next upgrade."
"Something that you will often hear about Arista products is that the price is a bit too high and, like with Cisco, we sometimes have problems with our customers because of its pricing."
"The port flexibility on the 54 series, specifically the 5406 for core usage, could be improved. When I want to upgrade to 10G, I don't have many options to choose from."
"From an improvement perspective, I want Aruba Switches to have a longer life since it doesn't work properly after five years of use."
"Aruba Switches cover lots of areas and support automated and IOPS and with the central products, but I think when we look at the solutions overall, IOPS devices are not covered so much in Aruba Central. We are in Croatia and it is a small country, I don't know how its situation is in Europe, America, or Asia."
"The element of security always can be improved. If the solution continues to improve its security functionality, it will continue to be a great product."
"We would like to see centralized, cloud-based management."
"If you work for a small business, then Cisco would be best."
"The need to come up with a bit more flexibility in their range of models."
"In my opinion, Aruba's new features, like the new firmware, need to be improved."
Arista Networks Platform is ranked 14th in Ethernet Switches with 21 reviews while Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews. Arista Networks Platform is rated 8.6, while Aruba Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Networks Platform writes "Affordable for enterprise-sized companies". On the other hand, 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". Arista Networks Platform is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, Meraki MS Switches and Cisco Ethernet Switches, whereas Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and 3Com H3C Switches. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. Aruba Switches report.
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