We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is slightly more price effective than Juniper and it has a slightly larger range."
"Scalable and reliable solution for your network connectivity needs, with a straightforward setup."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable Aruba switch feature is the lifetime warranty. It is a plus point in the budget."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"I like the Aruba Central platform. It makes a lot of sense. The switches have a lot of great capabilities. Central can lockdown VLANs and control the apps and protocols. There are several built-in security features that I'm not utilizing. However, those capabilities are part of the reason I'm using enterprise switches in a small office. I like knowing that I can do these things when necessary."
"It's a reliable product that you can depend on."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is security."
"Since it has a web interface, it is easy to set up. You don't have to take three years of training somewhere for a lot of money."
"The solution helps transfer data."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"NETGEAR Switches has valuable cybersecurity features."
"Its setup, usage, and access are most valuable. It is a very easy switch to set up."
"With this, you literally just log in to a website, see all your clients, all your NETGEAR switches, and you can manage them all right there: the VLANs, powering on and off individual ports, rebooting the whole device, the firmware updates. Everything can be done remotely..."
"The most valuable feature to me is the modular side of things, being able to replace a module and a transceiver at our beck and call. If something goes down, or a piece of equipment is broken, I don't have to replace the whole switch. I can just replace the part that's broken or the part that is no longer working. I can get them back up and working within a matter of minutes, versus having to replace everything and reprogram everything. It's a huge time-saver."
"The cloud management has just been huge for us. We have 80 clients and they all have switches... With the cloud-managed Insight ones... we know more information without having to do complicated SNMP traps. We get nice emails, we get a web interface, and we're not having to wait for our RMM tools to get SNMP traffic to notify us. We don't have to do complicated configurations."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"I would like to see them integrate a monitoring solution."
"I'm not sure if they have the core switch series as well."
"The delivery time for this product is slow and is something that needs to be improved."
"The dashboard could be improved, especially for the CX Switches. It would help to push scripts and configurations via an easy to use dashboard, one which would give us complete visibility of all of our switches in one place. Right now, we have more than one dashboard for Aruba. It would be nice if it was centralized."
"The initial setup is relatively complex."
"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."
"We would like to see centralized, cloud-based management."
"Perhaps in the future, we will have even more different types of switches and be able to fulfill more collections."
"The scalability and warranty should also be improved."
"Netgear switches could be cheaper."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
"Centralized monitoring is there, but competitors like Cisco Prime are at a higher level of centralized monitoring."
"One thing I would like to see improved is the response time for technical support."
"One thing I have asked for, something that NETGEAR lacks that I would love to see — and from what I understand it's in the works — is a REST API to programmatically interface with multiple switches. That would be a great feature."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 51 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. 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 NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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