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 Users of Mikrotik Routers and Switches feel the solution lacks a wireless option and that it is a bit outdated and clunky.
"Aruba access points have a good transfer rate."
"We use this solution for small and middle sized offices across different locations. The switches connect to the remote sites for distribution to the end user."
"The cloud configuration is the most valuable feature of this solution. Watching in the cloud, propagating the actual devices themselves and the management of devices that are remote."
"Management-wise, this is a good solution."
"The solution is very reliable. It's easy to use with other solutions."
"Aruba Central is very valuable to us."
"The technical support is fantastic!"
"We didn't experience any stability or scalability issues until now with Aruba Switches"
"The price is a big factor. They are very affordable, and the quality is high."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches are good and easy to use."
"The stability is good."
"The deployment process of MikroTik routers and switches is very convenient since it is not command-driven and comes with a graphical user interface, making it much easier to operate."
"The product is very reliable."
"The pricing is very reasonable. It's not too expensive."
"The setup is easy."
"The product is simple to use."
"The migration from older to newer products could be improved."
"We had an issue with the hardware where one or two interfaces went down after one and a half years. This issue impacted only one or two interfaces, not the whole hardware."
"I think that the performance is getting better but they need to have more powerful switches on the market so that they can capture medium and large businesses."
"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."
"The log viewer should be improved."
"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."
"The firmware in this solution has a lot of bugs that become noticeable when you have complex implementations."
"It would be better and easier for us to buy if the price were reduced."
"The product's setup process could be easier."
"I would like to see a cluster feature added, where multiple devices can be configured and managed as one. One is in a standby state while the other is active, and if one fails then the other takes over."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches need a firewall policy to secure the network. I also want Mikrotic to add load balancing to the firewall policy, as it's currently hard to do in Mikrotik devices."
"The solution needs to offer better documentation."
"They could improve their product if they set, for instance, a controller for wireless LAN. That would allow them to really have something more than an access point."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches needs to improve stability."
"MikroTik does not have a wireless solution. If they created a high-performance wireless solution we would deploy it in our infrastructure."
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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 62 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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