We compared Aruba Wireless and WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Both solutions provide excellent technical support and produce an ROI for users. Although, WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi's ROI is dependent on individual requirements. WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi is more expensive than Aruba Wireless. Aruba Wireless is praised for its user-friendly interface, whereas WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi is praised for its robust security features.
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The solution is very secure."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"The solution is stable."
"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 the solution is Marvis, the AI-driven network management system."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"With Aruba Instant, we can use the access points independently, allowing us to position them in many places."
"Scalability has been one of the easiest aspects of the Aruba Instant product line. As long as the models are compatible, you can simply connect it to your network and it will learn the settings from the other APs on the network and join the AP network."
"The access points support a high number of connected clients."
"Support through third party vendors or direct from HPE has been easy to manage. They are very responsive."
"The solution is very stable."
"It has very flexible features."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"The solution is well designed so you can easily integrate it in an infrastructure network."
"The solution has been stable."
"Cloud analytics that provide all its attributes."
"It makes it easy to obtain all information about the client experience."
"They're very easy to set up and get running."
"The Wi-Fi security features of this solution have been great for our customers who need to strictly control access to their network."
"We like that WatchGuard works and integrates directly with the firewalls we use."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"The solution is expensive."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation."
"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 network times for protocol synchronization can be improved."
"To enhance the system, more work on integration would be beneficial."
"What I would like to have with these kinds of devices is the most enhanced security. For example, if I could apply security from wireless devices, that would be great. I would also like more enhanced reports on user adoption, who is getting what bandwidth."
"Our customers ask for a security portfolio, which the tool doesn't have."
"A lot of the access point commands are in the command line interface, versus being in the GUI."
"We would like to declare a specific number of devices that an employee or a user can use to access their Wi-Fi."
"They need to increase the number of routers on the controller."
"Every month Aruba has new firmware. I don't know if it's good or bad but it's not good in terms of production. We can't upgrade our firmware every month, especially an enterprise company, because if we upgrade our firmware based on the latest firmware that Aruba has, that firmware is not stable. They're not 100 percent sure about it."
"I don't think they're available at the best price."
"The solution can be scaled but it has limitations from my experience."
"If a client device had issues with authentication due to out of date browser or similar difficulties, it would be nice to have the ability to migrate the client onto the portal via one click."
"Inability to import a user with one click."
"One of the things is if you buy it with a certain subscription, you can't easily change the subscription level."
"The price of this solution needs to reviewed, as it is currently high enough to deter customers from trying it."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 139 reviews while WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi is ranked 24th in Wireless LAN with 6 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi is rated 8.0. 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 WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi writes "A solution that offers excellent support and makes it easy to manage networks". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and Huawei Wireless, whereas WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi is most compared with Ubiquiti WLAN, Aruba Instant, Ruckus Wireless and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN. See our Aruba Wireless vs. WatchGuard Secure Wi‑Fi report.
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