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Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Ubiquiti Networks and others in Ethernet Switches."The solution is very stable."
"I like the Aruba Central platform. It makes a lot of sense. The switches have a lot of great capabilities. Central can lockdown VLANs and control the apps and protocols. There are several built-in security features that I'm not utilizing. However, those capabilities are part of the reason I'm using enterprise switches in a small office. I like knowing that I can do these things when necessary."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is security."
"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."
"Aruba Switches is stable."
"Management-wise, this is a good solution."
"We use this solution for small and middle sized offices across different locations. The switches connect to the remote sites for distribution to the end user."
"I find the most valuable feature is it is part of the Aruba family."
"I have found some of the key features of the solution are it can be configured similar to Cisco, it is secure, easy to use, and the dashboard works well."
"There is an issue with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), but it is escaping me. We aren't using this feature yet, but it is something we are considering."
"The software materials could be improved."
"It would be good if I could get a 24-port, 10 gig module."
"In the next release, I would like to see network access control on the switches themselves. I would like to see security functionalities when it comes to monitoring the bit of the wireless section of the switches."
"The need to come up with a bit more flexibility in their range of models."
"Technical support response time could be better."
"I would like to see something like a Cisco Prime, an application controlling the entire system, switches, and access points."
"The main issue we had with the Aruba Switches was that they would heat up easily when placed outside. We have two locations with no cover in the corridor and it's a historical building. We experienced outages on the first batch of Aruba Switches we received, which we never had with the Dell Switches, for example, even though Dell Switches are not as well-known. However, the Dell Switches had been outside for a few years and we never had any issues with them. In contrast, we encountered an issue with the Aruba Switch after only one week of being outside when it shut down in security mode."
"In some configurations, I am unable to use two switches as one and it causes some problems."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Dell PowerSwitch Managed Campus is ranked 25th in Ethernet Switches. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Dell PowerSwitch Managed Campus is rated 9.0. 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 Dell PowerSwitch Managed Campus writes "Secure, easy to use, and dashboard works well". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, whereas Dell PowerSwitch Managed Campus is most compared with Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Meraki MS Switches.
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