We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Mikrotik Router and Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches finishes slightly ahead of Mikrotik Router and Switches in this comparison. Aruba Switches offer high availability and support stacking; they are also easy to configure, very scalable, and very reliable. Users of Mikrotik Routers and Switches feel the solution lacks a wireless option and that it is a bit outdated and clunky.
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is its performance."
"The solution is easy to use and quick to deploy."
"Scalable and reliable solution for your network connectivity needs, with a straightforward setup."
"The initial installation of Aruba Switches is easy."
"The technical support is fantastic!"
"There is a feature where you can use Bluetooth. You can set up a Bluetooth pairing connection and do the configuration through your phone."
"We like that it is very easy to manage the product through the cloud."
"Management-wise, this is a good solution."
"The MikroTik Hotspot is great."
"I like MikroTik's GUI. It's completely handy and easy to handle because of its GUI. Despite other brands like Cisco urging me to switch, I didn't because they don't have a GUI. This is the most comfortable thing in my project that anyone can use easily. It's effortless to maintain MikroTik routers because both screens make it very easy in GUI mode. You can easily interact with your hardware."
"We have use cases like providing power over ethernet, as an access controller for Wi-Fi, and normal networking."
"These routers and switches are very stable."
"The flexible IP firewall and IP network address translation make it very easy to give access to internal services."
"One of the primary advantages is its competitive pricing in the market."
"I like the routing features."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the bandwidth."
"There is room for improvement in the customer service and support team."
"I would like to see them integrate a monitoring solution."
"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."
"Aruba's website should be localized to support the Indonesian language. The content of their website and the help desk should be in the Indonesian language."
"I would say that the customization of the switches could be easier to configure."
"They have limited CLI options in the UI and this is something that needs improvement."
"The log viewer should be improved."
"The biggest issue right now is the delivery timeline. It takes too long to get the product."
"They lack the extended warranty for the equipment. They only provide a warranty for one year as compared to the other vendors who offer a warranty for three years, five years, and lifetime, etc."
"The Soft-GRE support needs to be improved."
"The updates as well as the patches could be improved. I believe it would be beneficial to automate the process of router patching to avoid the need for manual checks. With automated patching, as long as the router is connected to the internet, it can automatically perform necessary updates. Failing to patch the router can leave me vulnerable to potential security threats."
"Improvements could be made in terms of SD-WAN capabilities and zero-touch provisioning."
"The CPU load is too high. This causes the Internet to lag."
"It would be very good if these products are accessible via different kinds of shells and GUI. It will make these solutions very usable."
"MikroTik does not have a wireless solution. If they created a high-performance wireless solution we would deploy it in our infrastructure."
"This product could offer better integration with VPNs."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 6th in Ethernet Switches with 61 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. 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 MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Huawei Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Huawei Enterprise Routers and Juniper MX Series Routers. See our Aruba Switches vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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