We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"It can interact with other vendors better than Cisco, which is a good point of AirWave. It is easy to use, and its reporting is good."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"It's scalable because it's licensed per device and we bought licenses with each device. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability."
"It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The technical support services are good."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"Cisco VXLAN is a protocol that has been around for some time, but the practical implementation and operational capability of Cisco DNA Center bring it to life."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"I would like to see an integration of services into one system, rather than having multiple systems to do multiple things."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"I would try to integrate more products from different vendors in future releases. Because that's really good features that Aruba Airway has, but it's so limited."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"The product has many features that do not work properly."
"The product doesn’t have good monitoring capabilities."
"The solution's integration feature can be better."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"When it comes to deploying wireless fields, integrating defaults into the DNS interface can be challenging."
"The tool's IoT integration should be better."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"It seems to be a little bit more centered toward wireless than wired. You've got more options you can do wirelessly than you can with the wired switches, but it works for what we need it to do. We would like to see a little bit more about the traffic, and we're looking at what's out there to see about that. We are looking at something that might give us a bit more insight into the actual traffic. If they had the full functionality on the wired side, as they do on the wireless side in terms of being able to view traffic and everything, it would be good."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 reviews while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 36 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Aruba Airwave writes "The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Aruba Airwave is most compared with HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Fortinet FortiManager, Huawei eSight and Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Fortinet FortiManager. See our Aruba Airwave vs. Cisco DNA Center report.
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