We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Aruba Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."The benefit is with the ease of use of the software, I am able to show the customer, "Here is what your wireless coverage looks like." It is set up in a fashion that non-technical people can understand it."
"The addition of the AirMapper software on the nXG and our AirCheck G2s has helped a lot because we're mostly not drilling down into the data. Local managers only need to see the coverage on their end and whether there are performance bottlenecks. These things are easy enough for us to ascertain with iPerf."
"Customer service is great."
"The predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"It is reliable and easy to use (user-friendly). The heat mapping, passive network surveying, and doing the heat mapping of a building's wireless network allows me to see what level of coverage an area has."
"The most valuable feature is the predictive survey. The antennas' RF patterns are reflected correctly on the drawing when preparing predictive heat maps."
"The heat maps are quite good, and some features are easy to use."
"We use the solution for Wi-Fi and networks."
"The most important feature is all about the two wavelengths, the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz, and the access points which are connected to this wireless controller."
"The most useful feature of this product is the configuration that allows us to have several areas covered with one unit."
"The solution is stable."
"Denies inter-user traffic: It easily blocks traffic between users."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is multi-tenancy."
"It's a very stable system."
"It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network."
"HA: Apps failover without reboot."
"The user interface needs a lot of improvement. The auto-placement of access points is not accurate."
"Printouts are JPEG printouts. The AirMagnet software is proprietary. I can't send my customers a file, because it is AirMagnet file, even for building projects. I can only send JPEGs or screenshots of heat maps."
"AirMagnet Survey doesn't cover certain devices in the system."
"It'd be nice if it was cheaper, however, you get value for your money."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"Less time consumed doing the real surveys."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"Most of the access points don't include the chargers."
"The Help option within the GUI needs to be improved."
"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."
"Aruba Wireless could improve the interface, it does not have a smart web interface. Other solutions have smart web interfaces, such as Cisco Meraki."
"Aruba Wireless is a good product, but it still has some issues, especially at the beginning, where there's inconsistent syncing between the cloud and the APs. Sometimes, there's also a little lag when accessing the query."
"The urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation."
"Needs improvement in point-to-point deployment products."
"Access point mounting options could be better."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 2nd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 38 reviews while Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AirMagnet Survey writes "It fixes so many problems quickly that we don't regret spending more on high-end tools than most companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, AirCheck G3, iBwave Wi-Fi, Ubiquiti WLAN and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, whereas Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points.
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