We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and SonicWall SonicWave Access Points 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."The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The solution is very secure."
"The solution is stable."
"The simplicity is great."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"It has helped in making deployments easier."
"It provided an easy WiFi solution for our branch offices to deploy. We could usually have them up and running from out-of-the-box in about 10 minutes."
"The web-based GUI is much simpler to use than similar products by Cisco."
"The solution is stable."
"The wireless controller and access points are valuable features."
"Aruba Wireless offers a good user experience."
"The solution is quite stable and very robust."
"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."
"Unlike the Cisco solution that needs a dedicated wireless controller outside of a firewall, SonicWall has everything in one box. Fortinet is close to it."
"A good management tool that can be managed through the cloud or firewall."
"The platform's most valuable feature is the ability to provide cloud access to configure and manage devices."
"The price could be better."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"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."
"The new 8400 failed at Lab, plus its integration with Aruba Central."
"The bad things about the product are the price, the information about the product, and the time it takes to deliver the product."
"The console is difficult to use. The firewall settings could be improved."
"An area for improvement in Aruba Wireless is creating a DMZ. Without Aruba ClearPass, you need to allow guess access directly via the internet, which means you need to implement the security in between, so this is what I'd like Aruba to improve in the product."
"Aruba needs to be more competitive with newer products. Their legacy makes that more difficult for them."
"Improvements to the GUI, such as being able to search in the Mobility Master, would be nice."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The dashboards that represent the network access control in Aruba Wireless could improve."
"Integrating with the firewall and management console was a little complex."
"We have a lot of overlapping wireless networks with a lot of cheap equipment that does not run on any rules or regulations. The best way to improve the wireless network, like in SonicWaves, is to defeat these networks by isolating, preventing them, or overcoming their wireless signal. We try to do that, but I live near an airport, and the AirPortRadar glitches my wireless network every nine seconds."
"The product's pricing is high and could be improved."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews while SonicWall SonicWave Access Points is ranked 18th in Wireless LAN with 3 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while SonicWall SonicWave Access Points is rated 10.0. 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 SonicWall SonicWave Access Points writes "An industry-leading security and wireless solution packaged in one box". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Huawei Wireless, whereas SonicWall SonicWave Access Points is most compared with Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Cisco Wireless and Datto Networking WiFi. See our Aruba Wireless vs. SonicWall SonicWave Access Points report.
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