We compared Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless both offer strong connectivity, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable performance. Aruba Wireless stands out for its seamless integration, extensive security measures, and high scalability, while Huawei Wireless is praised for its sleek design, long battery life, and efficient signal strength. Both products have competitive pricing and positive customer service experiences, but Aruba Wireless users highlight superior customer service and support, while Huawei Wireless users emphasize the need for improvements in signal strength, compatibility, and device durability.
Features: The valuable features of the Aruba Wireless product include strong and reliable connectivity, user-friendly interface, seamless integration with existing networks, extensive security measures, and high scalability. On the other hand, the Huawei Wireless product is highly praised for its efficient performance, sleek and compact design, easy setup process, and ability to seamlessly connect with multiple devices. It also offers long battery life, extensive coverage range, and advanced security features.
Pricing and ROI: Aruba Wireless's setup cost is straightforward and does not require extensive technical knowledge. Users find its licensing flexible and customizable. Huawei Wireless also has a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, allowing for a smooth installation process. Its licensing is easily obtained and offers flexibility., Based on user feedback, Aruba Wireless has shown positive ROI with its product, while Huawei Wireless also contributed positively to ROI.
Room for Improvement: Aruba Wireless could improve in response to user feedback. In contrast, Huawei Wireless could benefit from enhancements in signal strength, device compatibility, user interface, and durability.
Deployment and customer support: The Aruba Wireless users have mixed experiences with the duration required for a new tech solution, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. In contrast, Huawei Wireless users also have varying durations, with some taking three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others take a week each for both phases., The customer service of Aruba Wireless receives high commendation for its quality, responsiveness, and professionalism. Users appreciate prompt assistance and efficient problem-solving. Conversely, users praise Huawei Wireless' prompt and helpful customer support, highlighting their expertise and efficiency.
The summary above is based on 66 interviews we conducted recently with Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"The solution is stable."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"What I like most about Aruba Wireless is its stability, functionality, and performance."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is application monitoring."
"The 335-AP provides reliability, stability."
"Aruba Wireless is easily scaled between a lot of devices and a lot of endpoints. When we decided to use it as our solution, we had planned to use it exactly for its ability to scale."
"As we have acquired a few companies, having the ability to have multiple RADIUS connections has helped us."
"Aruba Wireless does not have too many distinguishing feature sets. However, tunneling is more flexible in this solution than other solutions, such as Ruckus."
"The stability of Aruba Wireless has been good."
"Its manageability of APs is the most valuable feature: ease of adding APs and the ability to configure the APs on the fly. Also, their support engineers are great to work with."
"All of the features are valuable in Huawei Wireless."
"We can use an access point to broadcast multiple SSIDs, assign dynamic VLANs, and configure dynamic access control lists (ACLs)."
"The solution has high performance and we are using Wi-Fi 6 that we have found to be the best coverage."
"I think it's a good technology. I like that it transparently connects with LDAP. The technology has a lot of capacity for WiFi six. It provides notifications, and there are many ways to connect with fiber. There is an electrical tool, and you can put an SFP transceiver. There are also many ways to implement antennas."
"The most valuable features of Huawei Wireless are WiFi coverage and ease of use."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The solution's roaming feature is very nice. When you move to another place it automatically changes the access point. It's one of the most valuable features."
"The solution offers very good value for money."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"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."
"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 solution is expensive."
"I believe it would benefit from more reporting, other than just a dashboard. It needs some type of report builder so you can have PDFs to show upper management what is going on in the wireless network."
"The solution needs to add features and enhance security."
"Every month Aruba has new firmware. I don't know if it's good or bad but it's not good in terms of production. We can't upgrade our firmware every month, especially an enterprise company, because if we upgrade our firmware based on the latest firmware that Aruba has, that firmware is not stable. They're not 100 percent sure about it."
"I need more access. I only install the hardware and the software part for the client. However, there are no admin privileges, which is an issue. You need to contact them and make a special request."
"The initial setup is more complex than other solutions."
"What I would like to have with these kinds of devices is the most enhanced security. For example, if I could apply security from wireless devices, that would be great. I would also like more enhanced reports on user adoption, who is getting what bandwidth."
"They need to increase the number of routers on the controller."
"An area of this product that could use improvement would be the troubleshooting. At times I had to engage Aruba Support which ran some pretty complicated troubleshooting commands. I would not have been able to do with existing CLI documentation."
"They should include more security features in the solution."
"The solution should offer more integration with third-party servers and devices."
"I'd like to see some after-sales support. It's a little bit below the expectations we had."
"As such, there are no problems. It has been good. There were some issues with the network design, but that is not specifically related to the product. We had to make some improvements in the network design. The product as such is fine, and there are no big issues. We are using the latest version having most of the features available in the industry, so the specs are very high. If something new comes up new in the industry, it needs to be incorporated into the product."
"Support could be a bit faster."
"I have already integrated the radius system with Cisco and Huawei products, but it can be further improved to be more user-friendly and easier to use."
"Price is one of the major problems of the solution, and because of this, our company's customers want to migrate to some other product from Huawei."
"There could be a console port for demonstration or configuration purposes."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 139 reviews while Huawei Wireless is ranked 10th in Wireless LAN with 33 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while Huawei Wireless is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Wireless writes "Customizable and has many unique features, such as encryption, spatial streams, and smart antennas". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Huawei Wireless is most compared with D-Link Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Fortinet FortiAP. See our Aruba Wireless vs. Huawei Wireless report.
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1 Ruckus
2 Aruba
3 Cambium
It depends on your enviroment.
Greetings
Here's my recommendation in order.
#1 Aruba
#2 Ruckus
#3 Ubiquiti
Hi Vinny,
I recommend you the following devices:
1. Ruckus: Easily to deploy. Expensive but effective. Don’t ask for the advanced license - you don’t need it. Buy only the basic one. A great option for hard users performance and large venues.
2. Ubiquiti: Easy to deploy, cheap but limited hardware. This is an option for basic performance.
3. Aruba: Easy to deploy, expensive, bad UX experience.
4. Cambium networks: A good option, between Ruckus and Ubiquiti.
5. Huawei. Never. Never. Never. Bad UX, bad support experience, bad hardware, bad everything.
6. Meraki. Too expensive. Don’t!
Regards!
If you want high performance and stability, you should definitely go with Ruckus Wireless.
Ruckus Wireless APs have:
- Adaptive antenna technology (called BeamFlex)
This technology analyzes different paths to reach the client and electronically turns itself to a directional antenna, choosing the path that gives the best performance to reach each specific client. If the client is mobile or if the environment changes (such as a warehouse) the selection of paths/direction also changes instantly.
Transmitting in a directional way allows a good Signal-to-Noise Ratio and also causes less interference for other nearby APs outside the path of the directional transmission.
- ChannelFly technology
This technology chooses the best channel based on performance rather than background scanning for noise.
- Polarization Diversity
This technology allows the clients not to lose signal strength when held at different angles (important for mobile devices such as tablets and telephones).
- Better receive sensitivity compared to the competitors
All these features make Ruckus Wireless a better choice than any other competitor (better performance, better coverage area, more stable and surprise-free communication especially in not so easy conditions such as noise, too many clients, too much traffic).
Selecting an AP depends upon a couple of factors which include (the number of users per AP, coverage area and required speed/throughput)
My recommendations are:
1. Ruckus
2. Aruba
3. Cisco
Ruckus:
Performs well in a high-density environment, with unique adaptive antenna technology & PD-MRC gives more coverage and interference mitigation. Ruckus offers a reliable Wireless network solution.
Aruba:
Good but not the best with better security features.
Cisco:
Complex deployment, is costly but it has better compatibility.
I have a smaller venue where I am using Unifi: Dream Machine UDM, Aggregation Switch, U6-Lite APs and Pro Switches...fiber optic backbone.
I am extremely satisfied with its performance. I can't tell about the other brands.
Have a look at Juniper Mist solution - it used in large retail stores and corps as well as a full integrated AI suite.
You can implement hundreds in just a few hours using foundation staff as it can all be programmed up on the cloud, no need for expensive network engineers to deploy
https://mist.com
Malcolm
Hi Vinny,
I'm biased toward Ubiquiti Unifi, but successful Wi-Fi deployment is hugely dependant on the type and number of Wi-Fi users, and more importantly, the layout and environment of the area you would like to cover.
Please feel free to PM me to discuss your application.
Regards,
Steve Pender