We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and Fortinet FortiWLC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cisco, Ruckus and others in Wireless LAN."It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"The simplicity is great."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The solution is very secure."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is application monitoring."
"Its graphical user interface is designed to be user-friendly, making work more efficient."
"It has an aesthetically pleasing GUI for configuration."
"There is no problem with downtime."
"Aruba Central is a valuable feature because I can monitor access points remotely, even if I'm not in the office."
"Aruba is an industry leader. The hardware is on par, and its performance is also on par with anybody else. The Aruba brand really only focuses on wireless, so they're not competing their R&D for switching data center products and cloud security. They're really focused on that and their underlying key pieces. They provide a role-based authentication that is native to the controller. A lot of other systems don't do that. They won't provide you the ability to basically have everybody join the network, regardless of whether or not they share the same network space, the SSID, or the wireless LAN. You can segment it down to a specific user role based on any kind of attributes that you like. That's their differentiator. If you need per user, per device, or per port segmentation, you can get that with Aruba. There isn't another vendor who does it."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is the controller. It is easy to use."
"The portal has been very helpful for us."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWLC is the overall high quality."
"It's easy to set everything up during implementation."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"The price could be better."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"The stability and management could be improved."
"They could work on energy consumption as this equipment needs a lot of energy."
"Better integration with equipment from other vendors would ease the deployment process in some cases."
"The dashboards that represent the network access control in Aruba Wireless could improve."
"The ceiling grid mount clips have room for improvement. "
"To enhance the system, more work on integration would be beneficial."
"Making the setup more simple is an area for improvement in Aruba Wireless. Security-wise, this solution also needs work."
"The console is difficult to use. The firewall settings could be improved."
"One thing that is lacking is, compared with some other brands, the signal is a bit weaker. Ruckus has much wider signal coverage."
"Fortinet FortiWLC is not simple to configure when compared to other solutions. The design could be better."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews while Fortinet FortiWLC is ranked 25th in Wireless LAN. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWLC is rated 9.0. 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 Fortinet FortiWLC writes "Quick support, overall high quality, and reliable". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Huawei Wireless, whereas Fortinet FortiWLC is most compared with Fortinet FortiWLM.
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