Aruba Wireless Primary Use Case
We use Aruba Wireless to give wireless network coverage to users without any requirement of connecting PCs or laptops to the network.
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reviewer1089651
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Our company uses the solution for wireless service. We currently use the latest version but have been using the solution since version six.
The solution is hybrid because it is deployed on-premises but managed in the cloud.
Our company currently has 300 users and we plan to grow by 100 more.
View full review »We use Aruba 7010 controllers to deploy our wireless system infrastructure. We're planning to use Aruba for our wired network, including the core switches. We're waiting for the upgrades of existing wired infrastructure to be delivered.
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Aruba Wireless
April 2024
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We use Aruba Wireless to direct all enterprise traffic, including emails, video calls, and browsing. Each office typically has between 50 to 150 users. My biggest office has 150 users, and the smallest office has 25. Depending on the strength, we use the APs.
All of our users access the internet through a wireless connection, and we do a lot of Zoom calls through Aruba Wireless. We send emails and have internal tools like Zoho, NetSuite, and cloud applications like G Suite or Office 365. Everything goes through the Aruba Wireless.
I have implemented Aruba for a few small customers.
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Rufino Tinio
Corporate Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for wireless infrastructure. We completed the upgrade of our Wi-Fi this year.
It's a hybrid solution. Our controller is in the cloud, and there are devices installed in the offices. Our provider is a local telco.
Between 400 and 500 people are using this solution in our environment.
View full review »We are a system integrator that specializes in providing complete network infrastructure for wireless solutions. This includes Aruba Wireless, Huawei Enterprise Solutions, and Extreme Networks.
The customers are seeking cloud implementation. Currently, all our deployments are done through the cloud, which is a strong selling point for positioning Aruba Instant access points. As a result, companies with multiple branches often prefer deploying Aruba Instant access points via the cloud.
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Alejandro Villalobos Campos
Architect at VJCR
The hospital's internal network is used for communications between staff, including emails and direct point-to-point access. One of the most challenging features of the network is its ability to facilitate live video communications between staff in different parts of the world that can view operations live. We use Aruba Wireless to help facilitate the three requirements of always on-time, on-live, and on-direct. In certain cases, I have to communicate with another surgery room, whose call may be back to back or parallel in that same venue.
We are using Aruba Wireless for land ports for customs. The inspection guides use the solution while walking around with tablets.
View full review »We're upgrading from version 9 to version 10, but I'm satisfied with the new proposed upgrade.
The solution is deployed on-premises.
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M. Seidl
Help Desk Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
I administered Aruba Wireless systems at two organizations. The first was a private college with around 12,000 endpoints campus wide, which included over 500 Aruba access points of various models and generations configured through the Aruba 7220 Mobility Controller. The second was a private high school with around 5000 endpoints and 130 Aruba access points, models 125 and 134, and configured through an Aruba 3600 Mobility Controller.
I have been maintaining Aruba Wireless systems at these two different organization for around 4 years in total.
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Sanket Walekar
Network Security Engineer at Aadnya Global Services
The primary use is for facilitating client communication.
View full review »Our company has a conference center and we use the solution for all our conferencing needs.
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Ajith Mathew
Network Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The use case is basically for wireless authentication. We are also using Aruba clear path policy manager and we are providing our customers with free WiFi. We have our retail customers, where we give them free WiFi.
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reviewer1858131
Risk Advisor
We primarily use the product for wireless connectivity in terms of securing wireless access.
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reviewer1312101
Network and Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We run a number of guest wireless networks with captive portals with layer 3 networks. We run .1x for corporate SSIDs or wireless networks for additional certificate-based and/or WPA2 security.
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reviewer2031900
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We deployed Aruba Wireless in our corporate head office, where we have a lot of business users. We use the product both as corporate WiFi and guest platform.
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Rahul Sivanandan
Associate Director – Network & Cyber security at Microland Limited
I work for an international service integrating company and we provide resources that are distributed internationally. We use Wireless for our branch and remote locations, and it's mainly for the internet. We are service integrators and deploy this solution as well as provide support to multiple customers. I am the director of technology and we are currently customers of Aruba.
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Edward Zeng
System Network Support Consultant at Auckland University of Technology
Our team handles the Aruba controller. We have four senior and two junior engineers.
View full review »Our primary use case of the solution is hospitality.
View full review »Our primary use case for this solution is extending the LAN capabilities via wireless capabilities so people can roam around in the office with wireless connectivity. Additionally, its management has a lot of insight into which access point you're connected to and a lot of information about the devices. Some of the information is related to bringing your device, whether it's a device which is owned by the company or not and reporting what sites are being browsed and accessed.
View full review »We using now working with a customer in Jedda. We sold more than 738 access points - 294 outdoor access points and around 500 indoor ones. We sold a controller for this number as well.
View full review »I was able to provide Aruba Wireless to financial, Telco, and hospitality industries.
View full review »Using this solution district-wide in all of our secondary buildings. We have over 1000 IAP-225 APs deployed, along with ClearPass.
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Shaker Wazani
Sales Enigineer at Smart World Computer Network
We primarily use the solution for access points.
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reviewer1328712
Cisco Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aruba is part our our network infrastructure.
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Amin Ancheta
System Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
We primarily use the solution for wireless access, for using WiFi and the network, the internet.
View full review »We use the solution for corporate users and guest users who come to the company. We use it for IoT devices, like factory devices and cameras.
View full review »We use it to manage a substantial number of access points for our clients, ensuring reliable and secure wireless connectivity across their properties, including indoor and outdoor spaces. It helps streamline operations, and we are actively engaged in consulting and expanding our services in this regard.
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reviewer2061732
Deputy General Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're using Aruba Wireless as a wireless access point, particularly Aruba AP-505.
We're also using Aruba Wireless for guest management purposes.
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Amr Elbadry
IT Manager at MNHD
I've been a consultant for six years.
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Eric Winiger
IT Operations Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We currently have 500 access points deployed and operated by two controllers. Recently, all of the AP-125 models were replaced as part of a three year site wide upgrade, using AP-205H, AP-215, AP-225, and AP-325 models.
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reviewer1383753
Sr IT Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use we have for the product is for users' corporate mobile access.
View full review »Our primary product is the Aruba Instant IAP-205-US Wireless Network AP, JW213A. We have 16 locations. Currently, 12 locations have Aruba wireless APs. Within the next 4-6 weeks, all locations will have Aruba wireless APs. All locations except our main location use Aruba Central. Cloud Central gives us one management console where we can configure the same wireless networks for all locations.
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Dale Nevarez
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use wireless for all testing (on Apple, Chrome, and even tablets). We moved our school over to having a managed wireless network. This was my first time doing something like this and my colleague nor myself had any issues with the software or hardware.
We have a large investment in Aruba Networks WiFi technology. We have recently deployed a mix of Aruba 225 and Aruba 335 units to provide complete and full coverage over multiple floors. We like the automatic hand-off of a connection to the access point with the strongest connection. We have had no issues deploying the access points, and look forward to years of service from these products, which is a strength that we are seeing.
View full review »I primarily use the solution for wireless connectivity.
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reviewer967293
Director of Information Technology at a university with 51-200 employees
We operate in the education sector and we use it for our staff and students to access our cloud-based application. This includes our learning management system, Canvas and a few systems. We also use it for our guests on site.
View full review »We have many clients and therefore many use cases. It's used in manufacturing, hospitality, hospitals, commercial buildings, and shopping centers.
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Tat Lam
Advisory Systems Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use this solution for law enforcement, medical, etc.
View full review »The primary use is for distributing internet bandwidth. The performance is good.
View full review »We are part of a conglomerate on the island. We provide this solution to all our different divisions, including the shopping malls. We are the technology division of the group. So, we've been assisting the group in their implementation across sectors.
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Shrijendra Shakya
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.
This solution has been deployed for an enterprise environment with 105 Apps and controllers in HA for a government entity handling the user capacity of 1500 people.
Multiple SSIDs have been broadcasted with independent VLANs and user policy has been implemented.
The controllers are in HA. Both indoor and outdoor APs have been used in the environment.
The solution has been differentiated for Guests, Employees, and an unrestricted group. The APs have been deployed across 10 multistory buildings in high interference zones.
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reviewer1264056
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I am a system integrator and Aruba Wireless is one of the network infrastructure products that I have experience with. We have customers using versions all the way from AP-100 to AP-535.
We have these devices in many industries, with a focus on educational institutions.
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reviewer1367016
Pre-Sales Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm using Aruba Wireless for enterprise deployment that's more centralized.
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Youngwook_Kim
Engineer at Eden
We primarily use the solution due to the fact that the architecture is suitable for management and engineers.
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Huthaisa Al Saaideh
Network Infrastructure Engineer at KAIZNE
I have worked with versions 2.207 and 3.303 and 305. Because I am the service provider for my customers, I've worked with Ruckus, Aruba, Cisco, and UniFi. Most of my customers ask for new wireless solutions. Last week I installed 37 access points. My customers are very satisfied.
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reviewer1273800
Infrastructure Manager at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aruba was our primary wireless solution until very recently.
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reviewer1089651
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Aruba is moving to the cloud platform model. We are presenting solutions using Aruba Central to clients for the management of their infrastructure. The majority of the implementations we have are still currently are on-premises. Customers now are slowly implementing cloud solutions for Aruba. We have 80% on-premises and 20% migrating to the cloud version of the solution.
With Aruba Central, we can manage controllers, EAPs (Employee Assistance Programs), switches, et cetera. Everything in one place. So we can manage anything we need to using Aruba. Aruba on-premises wireless is something we use for education. It is mostly implemented in schools and in universities. We use it to establish APs (Access Points) around the campus to make sure there is coverage campus-wide. Then they have mobility controllers on-premises that control all the infrastructure.
Another use case is for companies that have branches from the data centers. At the prime location, they have APs powered within the company and Mobility Masters in the data center. The Mobility Masters cluster-connect to the mobility controllers and then control all the APs and all the wireless infrastructure. Then we have links connecting the branches. On the branches, we have small mobility controllers that feed all the information to and from Mobility Masters. That is, the Mobility Masters connect to mobility controllers and then the mobility controllers connect to the APs.
Portugal is a small country and our smallest companies always have EAPs. EAPs are a version of a solution from Aruba that the NAC (Network Access Control) AP has inside a virtual controller. These NAC APs control all the other APs.
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reviewer1359489
VP at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
We are using different versions depending on the customer. We have about 400 or 500 customers. Some of them are Aruba, some of them have other technologies. Different versions are deployed all over. We use it as a wireless device manager where appropriate.
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reviewer1375509
Network Administrator Wireless at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case of this solution is to manage all of our wireless devices.
View full review »We have Aruba IAP-225 APs in both a school and a health center environment. We initially had 15 of them installed at the school about three years ago and kept expanding to 45 APs at this site.
Our school was a challenge as each room has cider block walls, so we deployed a single AP in the ceiling above the wall of two classrooms. We primarily have laptops and iPads that connect in various classrooms and for training.
We had such great success that we have deployed 40 APs in a five level building to support a new Health Center that opened in January.
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DImo Dimov
R&D Engineer IC Design at inLab Ltd
We use the product predominately for beacons and peer devices.
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Liyakath Muhammed
CEO at Radax Software Solutions
We have 150 clients who are using this solution.
The solution is deployed on-premises.
View full review »Our company uses the solution to provide wireless service for our clients.
There are less than 100 users of the solution across clients.
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Antonio Chuquimarca
Project and Services Manager at Gensystems
We installed Aruba Wireless for some clients who needed to expand their network inside offices or homes.
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MarcoPiazzalunga
Networking Solution Architect at ALE
We have used Aruba Wireless, with an Alcatel-Lucent logo, as the wireless connection for our office and guest users for nine to ten years.
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Jacob Golick
System Specialist at a newspaper with 501-1,000 employees
Doctors offices, car dealerships, and small business. It is used to provide internal, guest access.
View full review »We are using Aruba Wireless to connect our internal network.
View full review »The primary use of this system was to provide the best possible WiFi experience for students, faculty, staff, and guests of our campus. We had 88 APs throughout 14 buildings on campus. During the academic year, we could have hundreds of users connected to the APs at any given time.
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Mathew Simupande
HPE Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have a small office with about five APs. It has a good central management system to help manage my wireless devices, just to ensure that everything is working correctly.
View full review »We use Aruba wireless APs to provide wireless services for a private high school campus which is located on a 60-acre campus in Rockford, IL, with an enrollment of nearly 900 students.
View full review »I sold both the Aruba hardware and software, primarily the IAP 100, 200 and 300 series, along with AirWave as well as ClearPass to SMB clients primarily with less than 500 employees. At the time, I worked for PGH Networks, a local MSP and Aruba certified partner.
I used this solution for four years from 2013 to 2017.
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reviewer1268583
Network Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution for the wireless services for the entire campus.
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Hery Hafif Setiadi
System/Network&Security Administrator at Asuransi Astra
I use Aruba Wireless to manage and monitor mobile users.
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Samy Masihy
Wifi Solution Architect at Netpro SpA
The product can be used in all verticals. There are different kinds of use cases. Mostly, it is used in corporate settings, however, we also use solutions for distribution centers, et cetera.
View full review »We're primarily using it for wireless users. It's actually to monitor use; we're using stand-alone wireless controllers in all our sites.
View full review »- Branch and campus access
- Guest and employee access
- Device onboarding and device access
- Guests are divided into groups.
We are using Aruba Instant in four remote branch offices. We chose this solution at the time because of its controllerless feature and easy setup.
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Jorge Aldana
Director of Networks at Sellcom Solutions
We provide services for clients, so it's always a different use case. For example, we work with a retailer and we focus on electronic tasks. Another is corporate offices in a bank, one of the biggest banks in Mexico. Another is massive events like the Olympics with different sponsors. There's a big difference in the type of use cases.
View full review »We provide Aruba Wireless in over 30 schools in Southeastern Wisconsin.
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MichaelZhang
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology
In this University, Wi-Fi is essential to the daily operations, from teaching, learning by staff and students to research by researchers. In recent two years, it contributes to our smart campus objectives, bridging IoT devices in multiple projects.
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Luiz Canario
Integration and Support Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have about 30 APs and a lot of sites with centralized management on controller 7030. We use it to control the network in standalone mode and handle the active and standby modes.
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SeniorWi09c2
Senior Wireless Network Support Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aruba Wireless' network is the primary connection method used for connectivity to the university network. We use a master/local setup of controllers. On each of the three campuses we have two local controllers supporting the wireless network.
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Gaurav Vyas
Head Of Information Technology at Jekson Vision Pvt Ltd
We are using this solution to provide office internet for our clients.
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MarcoPiazzalunga
Networking Solution Architect at ALE
For campus wireless coverage, and it is performing very well.
View full review »It is our primary wireless solution. We use a HA paired controller in our main DC. We use the 7200 model. We provide a corporate and guest SSID.
View full review »We have many customers in the retail business using Aruba Wireless for their network.
View full review »We have made a full 32-site school transition from Mary to Aruba wireless.
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IgnacioRodriguez
Specialist Design and Solutions at orben comunicaciones
Implementing wireless networks.
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Saseendran Vasu
Organization Civil Engineer with 1-10 employees
Wi-Fi. The performance is okay.
View full review »- Different roles assigned to corporate and guest users.
- Corporate users authenticated via 802.1X against ClearPass with machine authentication.
- Guest users authenticated via captive portal; ClearPass guest self-registration process.
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reviewer1429029
Converged Services Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and Aruba Wireless is one of the network products that we implement for our customers. We offer it to our clients to provide wireless and cloud services.
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reviewer1422075
Team Leader Network and Communications at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Aruba Wireless strictly for corporate use. Within our company, there are slightly over 100 people using this solution.
View full review »Provide WiFi access for an elementary school pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. Serving about 350 students with mobility Internet connection. The building infrastructure is a solid, old school, preventing your regular AP from being able to penetrate through walls.
View full review »We had Aruba controllers and APs installed in over 1,000 retail stores and in several large distribution centers.
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reviewer1775661
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a solution provider and Aruba Wireless is one of the products that we implement for our clients. It provides wireless network access to local users.
One of our implementations is in a hospital, and we have also installed it in a few government offices.
View full review »Enterprise wireless for employees includes multiple wireless controllers, ClearPass Policy Manager, and wireless access points.
View full review »- A solution to problems for end users with friendly and easy to use work environments.
- It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network.
We purchased Aruba Wireless for our new office that we were opening in Austin, TX. I needed a solution which was simple to administer, easy to implement, cost effective, and tied into our existing Active Directory environment.
View full review »We are the one of the official distributors of this product in Middle East.
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Aruba Wireless
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Aruba Wireless. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.