We performed a comparison between Aruba ClearPass and Ruckus Cloudpath based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Access Control (NAC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Document authentications allows us to decide which users can connect to an office VLAN and this has been the most valuable feature."
"Its clustering model saved us staff time and reduced errors by eliminating the need to manage individual RADIUS servers."
"ClearPass's best feature is its comprehensiveness."
"It is a robust product."
"It makes it easy to require robust user authentication for both wired and wireless endpoints, including BYODs."
"Support is decent."
"The aspect of Aruba ClearPass that I like most is that it has a lot of options, it is very versatile."
"Aruba ClearPass has complete NAC features."
"The solution is easy to use, well designed, robust, and has good traffic capacity."
"The tool's most valuable features include the phenomenal functionality of DPSK. The ease of use, particularly when it is correctly set up, is remarkably simple. Tracking users is straightforward and dynamic. This allows us to identify where a user might encounter issues within the process."
"The ease of use is great, and the automation wizards can do a lot."
"I find the solution to be very rich in features."
"The solution has good features for authentication, policies, and allowing users to self-provision devices for network access via their logins."
"Ruckus technical support is very good and helpful whenever we need them."
"This solution could be improved by making it possible to use it across different territories. Currently, if a user moves from the US to the UK, their usage and access will be restricted."
"One area for improvement would be the possibility of using social media providers for user authentication."
"It should be clearer in the pre-sales stage that clear, documented, executive-supported InfoSec policy is the key to success."
"Aruba ClearPass has fewer deployment scenarios and flexibility than Forescout."
"ClearPass isn't hard to set up, but it takes a long time."
"The product's graphical user interface (GUI) could use an update and better integration between the guest management and policy management interfaces."
"Licensing cost is extremely high."
"Lacks the ability to handle more than one certificate for both the management process and the Captive Portal."
"The scalability could be better."
"I believe the solution is missing some great features which are present in other solutions like Aruba, UiPath, and Cisco ISE."
"The tool needs to support multi-vendor environments. Currently, my experience with it has been primarily within Ruckus environments. However, I haven't explored it for multi-vendor scenarios. It would be great to see newer builds that are multi-vendor capable of full integration."
"The hardest part we've had to deal with is trying to find some physical product recently as everything is going like hotcakes."
"The setup process is a bit complex."
"The solution could improve by adding more detailed information that customers have available on the dashboards."
Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Ruckus Cloudpath is ranked 10th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 6 reviews. Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6, while Ruckus Cloudpath is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ruckus Cloudpath writes "Helps to onboard corporate users based on certificate-based authentication". Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and macmon Network Access Control, whereas Ruckus Cloudpath is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC and Sophos Network Access Control. See our Aruba ClearPass vs. Ruckus Cloudpath report.
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