We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey, Aruba Wireless, and iBwave Wi-Fi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."The most valuable feature is the predictive survey. The antennas' RF patterns are reflected correctly on the drawing when preparing predictive heat maps."
"Customer service is great."
"The addition of the AirMapper software on the nXG and our AirCheck G2s has helped a lot because we're mostly not drilling down into the data. Local managers only need to see the coverage on their end and whether there are performance bottlenecks. These things are easy enough for us to ascertain with iPerf."
"The heat maps are quite good, and some features are easy to use."
"I would like to rate the product as eight of ten."
"Using the products to ensure the safety of our equipment that we have a lot invested in."
"It allows us to prepare more real designs. Later, we validate them with actual surveys."
"The most valuable features are the survey, spectrum analysis, and reporting."
"The solution is secure."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it can work with many devices. It supports everything that we need it to."
"It has improved overall IT efficiency across the board."
"I have found the Access Point (AP) group profile feature extremely useful. It makes deployments look easy."
"The fact that Aruba Wireless has a virtual controller onboard the internet access points makes it cheaper than other solutions."
"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."
"APs are very easy to configure to the network once they contact the controller."
"The most valuable feature is the client match."
"The stability and feature set of the application are top notch and can't be matched."
"iBwave Wi-Fi's tech support is great. They pick up their phones. I have no complaints."
"Compared to other tools, iBwave Wi-Fi provides 95% accuracy and generates heatmaps."
"I find the high-quality Heatmap generation, multi-floor, and wire mapping features to be most valuable."
"It can speed up design."
"The solution's 3D imaging is amazing."
"The 3D Coverage is a good feature that shows the signal propagation in three dimensions."
"Printouts are JPEG printouts. The AirMagnet software is proprietary. I can't send my customers a file, because it is AirMagnet file, even for building projects. I can only send JPEGs or screenshots of heat maps."
"But it's definitely a more expensive solution than other ones."
"The user interface needs a lot of improvement. The auto-placement of access points is not accurate."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"It'd be nice if it was cheaper, however, you get value for your money."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"It would be nice to have some more training resources for younger techs. We can use them if we need some assistance, but that usually requires one of us who knows what we're doing to calibrate the programs properly."
"Currently, the stability of the code is the basic underlying problem for us. They had an 8.6 release that came out two weeks ago, but we had to migrate twice because the code wasn't stable. We can't get things to work the same way. Version 8 was a big change for them. They made a change so that it is forced to be a managed hierarchical system. It means that you make changes at the top, and it pushes them downstream. There are a lot of problems with the 8.6 version code. I ran into four bugs in one week and was informed that we should just move onto the next one because all of those fixes have taken place. The feedback loop for fixes is not always really relayed back to you. I don't have a lot of strong things to say about version 8.6. When we had version 6, the controller was pretty much rock solid. We had no problems. We made a heavy investment to migrate a lot of stuff to take advantage of things like WPA3, Wi-Fi 6, and all that kind of stuff, and we haven't been able to turn those features on because we are not confident that they are going to work just yet. So, right now, we're still very much stumbling through the version 8.6 code and just trying to make sure that it is safe before we turn on some of those features. In terms of the marketplace, they are one of the top three leaders. In some respects, one of the things that they focus on is wireless. Therefore, there are some things that should be beyond reproach, as far as I'm concerned. In terms of the stability of the code, there are always going to be bugs, but the core stability of the code needs to be there. When it is not stable, that's a real problem for me because you lose a lot of confidence in the products."
"The Aruba Central cloud portal needs a lot of work. It is complicated to navigate."
"The coverage, concurrent user life, and visualization are the most valuable features of these solutions."
"They should provide usage guides and solutions to frequent problems."
"Needs improvement in point-to-point deployment products."
"The bad things about the product are the price, the information about the product, and the time it takes to deliver the product."
"The management system would be better if it were more polished, if it had a better interface like, for example, Meraki"
"I would like to see a faster web interface in the controller and more troubleshooting tools, including real-time troubleshooting tools."
"I am currently looking for an alternative due to my reluctance with the reliability of this product."
"Areas of improvement would include more functionality in the Mobile App, expanded reporting features, and some shortcut features."
"It would do iBwave well to become more involved with their clients."
"The cost of the solution could be improved. It's extraordinarily expensive."
"iBwave Wi-Fi doesn't have a distributor feed platform."
"It would be good if we could involve a visual while designing the backhaul."
"I would like to be able to see two buildings at the same time so that you can create a campus view."
