We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and Ubiquiti WLAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although it may be less cost-effective, users feel that Aruba is a more mature, robust product and provides better reliability and better service and support. Aruba consistently provides seamless trusted connectivity and an excellent secure user experience. Aruba works well for both SMBs and large business enterprises, making it a very versatile desired solution.
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"We have three wireless networks: One for employee use, one for guest use, and one for our warehouse use, which uses MAC authentication. These wireless networks just simply work, they do not fail. The IAP-205 devices are very strong with great range. Very durable equipment; it always works."
"The solution is very stable."
"Denies inter-user traffic: It easily blocks traffic between users."
"The coverage, concurrent user life, and visualization are the most valuable features of these solutions."
"The feature I found most valuable to customers in Aruba Wireless is not a technical feature. It's more of its image, trademark, or brand as the product is very well-known in the market, and that's a good point to offer to customers. My customers just ask about the basic features of the product, and usually, when asking about Aruba products, customers don't pay too much attention to any specific feature as long as the product is solid and sure, and that you can change or modify it, as what you can get from Aruba Wireless."
"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."
"Clearpass solution from Aruba."
"I really like the user interface."
"Ubiquiti WLAN has good availability, and it is much cheaper."
"Ubiquiti provides good connectivity for the end-user, so I think it's stable."
"Ubiquiti WLAN is stable."
"Great management interface."
"The most valuable feature is the level of security on the Wi-Fi network."
"The solution is scalable."
"Ubiquiti WLAN has been stable and is easy to install."
"The most beneficial thing about Ubiquiti is that it is simple to deploy."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"The price could be better."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"The stability and management could be improved."
"The network times for protocol synchronization can be improved."
"Access point mounting options could be better."
"I wish the APs had the ability to enter in notes about a specific AP."
"The logging is hard to read when troubleshooting issues."
"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."
"The initial setup is more complex than other solutions."
"MAC authentication against an external Radius server while using 802.1X. This feature will help the L2 devices to authenticate via external Radius servers."
"Largely we're happy with the product, however, the firmware deployments could maybe be managed a little bit differently."
"The support needs improvement. The official support is kind of complex. It's not that straightforward compared to Cisco and Aruba."
"When I started to upgrade, the controller for Unbuntu was really struggling to start up, however, that has since been solved."
"The statistics you can get on it are a bit limited from what I have seen so far."
"Cloud management is one feature that should be included in the next release. This tool is best suited for small environments, not large and complex ones."
"During the configuration, we cannot get information on the network level from the regular interface."
"The product must provide better warranties."
"Ubiquiti lacks troubleshooting tools. For example, there aren't tools that your clients can use to gather input on the AP itself. There's no visibility in the application layer or reporting. It doesn't have a lot of management features."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews while Ubiquiti WLAN is ranked 5th in Wireless LAN with 36 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while Ubiquiti WLAN is rated 7.4. 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 Ubiquiti WLAN writes "Helps to build VPNs but improvement is needed in stability ". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Huawei Wireless and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Ubiquiti WLAN is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Omada Access Points, Huawei Wireless and WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi. See our Aruba Wireless vs. Ubiquiti WLAN report.
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