We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant and Ubiquiti WLAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Wireless LAN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"The simplicity is great."
"The solution is stable."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"You can handle all of the access points at once virtually instead of manually handling each one. You're able to populate all of the information to all of the access points through the virtual controller as well. It transforms everything it a single access point, which simplifies things."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Instant are management and performance."
"The deployment is easy."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that the tool offers a ZTP feature."
"The central management of multiple devices is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The features I have found most valuable is that the solution creates a guest portal for guest networks, and setting up SSID authentication to the regular server."
"When users want to migrate from one location to another, they face no problems with connectivity."
"This is a very solid product. It is very powerful."
"Anyone can buy the product off the shelf and configure it."
"would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. It is very scalable."
"Ubiquiti WLAN has good availability, and it is much cheaper."
"You can save backups of this controller locally and then I can export it to wherever I want."
"The management features are valuable."
"The solution works well and in the short time I have used it, I've enjoyed its capabilities."
"Great management interface."
"Ubiquiti WLAN's most valuable features are that it works well in a hybrid environment and isn't heavy on resources."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"The price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"There was only ever one case in which an access point failed, but it was reintegrated. The issue was more of a matter of oversight. One part of the network had covered ten access points."
"The reach of the solution could be improved. It could be a bit stronger."
"Aruba Instant should not have a limit on users for future releases."
"The product's high cost is an area where improvements are required."
"Aruba Instant's visibility, firewalling, L3 functionality, and DHCP services could all be improved."
"The tool's customer service should improve."
"There is an issue with flooding to the Aruba access point on the ports."
"The support offered by Aruba is slow."
"It is not a stable solution."
"The logs are not detailed enough. You can't clearly see what is being blocked in Ubiquiti WLAN, making the troubleshooting process a little bit harder."
"The solution should include and expand on a central management system."
"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."
"Its scalability, UI, and security features could be better."
"Ubiquiti WLAN needs to expand the models with external antennas. It needs to improve stability."
"When I started to upgrade, the controller for Unbuntu was really struggling to start up, however, that has since been solved."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
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Aruba Instant is ranked 6th in Wireless LAN with 43 reviews while Ubiquiti WLAN is ranked 5th in Wireless LAN with 38 reviews. Aruba Instant is rated 8.6, while Ubiquiti WLAN is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant writes "A highly stable and easy-to-deploy solution that is free and provides excellent deployment guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti WLAN writes "Helps to build VPNs but improvement is needed in stability ". Aruba Instant is most compared with Omada Access Points, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Aruba Wireless and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Ubiquiti WLAN is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Huawei Wireless and WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi. See our Aruba Instant vs. Ubiquiti WLAN report.
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