Aruba Wireless Scalability
Aruba Wireless can scale up to 22,000 access points. We have more than 250 customers for Aruba Wireless.
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reviewer1089651
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very scalable. I rate scalability a ten out of ten.
View full review »It's scalable depending on the number of licenses you buy. We two people in the IT department managing the controller and access points. In a hotel, the usage depends on the occupancy. It can be up to 1,000 people, but let's say about 500 people.
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Aruba Wireless
April 2024
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Aruba Wireless is highly scalable because it also offers a cloud version of the controllers where you can add as many APs as you want. You can add close to 10,000 APs, so it's really scalable for us.
View full review »Aruba is scalable. I'm not doing dealing with the management or licensing, so I'm not aware of the costs compared to some other products.
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Rufino Tinio
Corporate Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Since we have a lot of branches, the scalability is open. For now, the scope is really in the head office and I think the promise is that we can scale. We can incorporate this to our branches across the Philippines.
View full review »The solution is scalable, especially with cloud implementation, which has not presented any challenges for me thus far. I would rate the scalability at eight out of ten.
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Alejandro Villalobos Campos
Architect at VJCR
I give the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten.
View full review »Aruba Wireless is a scalable solution.
We have approximately 200 users using this solution.
I rate the scalability of Aruba Wireless a nine out of ten.
View full review »I would rate the scalability as eight out of ten.
We have multiple canvases and sites, so it's easy to scale up and across the same controller within the same enterprise network. When we add new access points, there is a limitation in the virtual appliance, but it's not that bad.
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Sanket Walekar
Network Security Engineer at Aadnya Global Services
There are around two to three thousand users who rely on wireless connections for their daily work. It demonstrates excellent scalability, and I would rate it around nine out of ten.
View full review »The solution is very flexible and scalable. We have about 10,000 users and are at about 50% of maximum capacity.
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Ajith Mathew
Network Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have about 4,500 people on the solution. Everyone at all levels of the company uses it.
The solution is scalable. We started pretty small and we were able to grow as required. The number of people and the number of retail stores increase yearly.
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reviewer1858131
Risk Advisor
Aruba works with small to large companies. Data is open for all three. They have different kinds of solutions for individual stakeholders in terms of small, medium, and large. They have a different product portfolio offering for small. They have something else for mid-size enterprises and larger enterprises as well. Everyone can be catered to.
It is quite easy to scale, even if a small-scale business is starting with a standalone deployment. They too can scale up to 50 or 60 access points on a mid-scale deployment eventually. The group pattern in terms of the wireless controller has limits to the physical hardware appliances if you already own one. That said, the cloud adoption part is one of the aspects which gives you quite a bit of scalability and you need not worry about your scalability and your future growth.
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reviewer1312101
Network and Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is pretty good. There are a lot fewer people in the office, obviously, because of COVID. Under normal situations, we were probably about 2,000 users a day. Between 40% to 50% of that would be corporate users with mobile devices, such as iPhones, as well as laptop users accessing corporate resources and the corporate LAN. We also have guest users.
They are really moving towards making it cloud-based and less attractive for you to use on-premises. There are still a number of limitations with the cloud. One of the reasons we don't use cloud controllers is that they're not able to support more than 250 access points per tenant instance. For example, you have two sites. One has 200 APs, and one has 300 APs. You could put one site in the cloud so that you wouldn't need to have on-premises wireless controllers. You could manage it all from the cloud instance, and you would have zero hardware and all that kind of stuff.
However, you wouldn't be able to deploy the second site in the cloud because you can't put more than 250 APs. So, now you have got to go back to doing it the old-fashioned way, which is to have on-premises controllers or two management suites. You don't want to do that because the way this new code works is that it is hierarchical, meaning that you build your configuration centrally, and then you push it down to your access points or your local controllers. So, if you've got one management session in the cloud and one management session on-premises, you would have to manage them at two places.
I do understand that you can configure that local hardware. So, for the site that has 300 APs and a local controller, you could plug that controller into the cloud, but it is still for two different models. So, the companies that just want to have a very simplified setup or want to make it less complicated, they can just say that we're going to go cloud or just stay on-premises, but now you have to have a combination of both, or you just stay with on-premises. There are still some basic limitations preventing us from doing wireless deployments where controllers are based in the cloud.
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reviewer2031900
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I find Aruba Wireless scalable.
View full review »Aruba Wireless is scalable for the needs of my customers. Some of my customers have approximately 1,500 users using the solution and it works well.
View full review »The solution is scalable. My territory has at least 70-80 customers.
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Edward Zeng
System Network Support Consultant at Auckland University of Technology
Aruba is pretty scalable.
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reviewer1230060
Manager - Network Solutions at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have no doubts about the scalability of Aruba Wireless. Its scalability is amazing.
View full review »I believe the solution is scalable.
View full review »The solution is scalable. We have approximately 300 users utilizing the solution.
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Sigma.3 - Ashroff
Director, Technical Solutions at Sigma.3 Pte Ltd
Aruba Wireless is scalable. However, you need to purchase certain models of the solution to have high limits. For example, the 7210 model has hard-coded limits that I cannot increase.
We primarily support hotels and I have completed 500 rooms. The system can handle approximately 500 to 1000 users.
View full review »Aruba is scalable. Many products are. For example, if we have a controller, we can manage 2,000 access points and can add another thousand access points.
Aruba Wireless is scalable. We have different product segments and we educate different customer requirements and industries. Because of COVID, all industries are facing a lot of challenges, but we find this product scalable.
View full review »We have encountered scalability issues. We were initially hooked by the simplistic nature of the "controller-less" idea. We have come to find out that we need to revamp our networking from 1-2 clusters per building (depending on size), to one cluster per network closet. This is not in the official documentation, so it feels like bait and switch. We also need to redo our VLANS, as now we've been told to go to one big L2 network for data, again not located in the documentation.
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Shaker Wazani
Sales Enigineer at Smart World Computer Network
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reviewer1328712
Cisco Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have nine remote sites right now, around the world, with multiple access points per site. Some sites have two or three access points, whereas others have between 25 and 30, depending on how large the site is. In total, we have 147 access points.
We have a data network that we use, and we also have a guest network. ADF authentication logs into the data network and the guest network is open. It's pretty simple to scale.
We had a building and a site that we decommissioned, so we have between nine and eleven spare APs floating around. All you have to do is plug them into the network using the right port, give them a name, and they come online. After that, you assign a foundation license to them and overall, it couldn't be simpler.
With the spares and backups we have, should we need to scale, and we always do, it's easy.
View full review »Aruba Wireless, in terms of scalability, is okay.
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Amin Ancheta
System Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
The scalability is pretty good. You can expand it by using Aruba Switches.
We have about 700 users on the solution at this point.
View full review »We've been able to scale sufficiently for our needs.
View full review »The tool is scalable. We have about 3000 users.
View full review »It provides good scalability abilities.
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reviewer2061732
Deputy General Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a scalability point of view, I don't see any challenges with scaling Aruba Wireless. After all, my organization only has one office and only needs approximately fifty APs.
View full review »The scalability of Aruba Wireless is good.
We have approximately 1,000 to 1,300 users using the solution. We plan to increase the usage of the solution. There are plans to install 150 access points in January.
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Amr Elbadry
IT Manager at MNHD
Aruba Wireless is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1383753
Sr IT Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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. We went through a massive scaling and did not have issues with devices and endpoints.
Right now we have 30,000 users and around 45,000 devices between those users. It does not seem that there are many limitations for scaling the product's use.
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reviewer2132793
EDP Supervisor at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
The product is scalable. Around 150 people in my company are using the solution. We need only one administrator for the solution.
View full review »We haven't had issues with scalability. It has met our needs so far.
Our organization is quite sizeable, and 10,000 people alone are cell phone users. They all use Aruba Wireless.
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reviewer967293
Director of Information Technology at a university with 51-200 employees
This is a scalable solution. We have 3,500 users in our organisation supported by Aruba.
You can scale the solution quite well. It's a good option for enterprises or large rollouts.
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Tat Lam
Advisory Systems Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is extremely scalable. We have about one thousand users and have license for ten thousand.
View full review »Scalability is good. Suppose there are 20 people in a room and suddenly 10 more people come into the room. It automatically scales up and provides the internet.
View full review »Scalability depends on the model.
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Shrijendra Shakya
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.
This is a very scalable product.
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reviewer1264056
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We haven't had any trouble with scalability. 75% of our clients are using Aruba Wireless.
View full review »We run two-and-a-half gigabytes through the wireless system. We're looking for even greater throughput, and I think it'll scale to accommodate this.
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reviewer1367016
Pre-Sales Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
In general, the scalability of Aruba Wireless needs some improvement. The product needs to be more flexible in terms of scalability.
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Youngwook_Kim
Engineer at Eden
The solution can scale if you need it to. It's not a problem.
We have 20,000 people, including network engineers, using the product in our organization. Right now, we do not have plans to increase usage.
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Huthaisa Al Saaideh
Network Infrastructure Engineer at KAIZNE
This solution is both very stable and scalable. I want to mention something about Aruba's compatibility between various model types. If you already have version 207 installed and you want to switch to version 3.3, it's not compatible; you can't add it to your network. You need to create a standalone network for this access point only.
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reviewer1089651
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
My impressions about the scalability and the product is that it is highly scalable. You can start with a low quantity of access points — as low as one installation — and then scale it to thousands if you have to. You can do the upgrades in the mobility controllers to allow the growth of the infrastructure. Because of the way it is created, it is highly scalable and highly reliable.
Of course, we have plans to scale our own usage of the product. Because we work as a value-added distributor of Aruba in Portugal, we have to meet the needs of our client base which is growing all the time. We have plans to increase the implementation of the product in our market to meet those demands. It is partly because we are working with a superior product like Aruba that we are growing in our market.
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reviewer1359489
VP at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
It is very scalable.
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reviewer1375509
Network Administrator Wireless at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is very scalable.
View full review »No. We have added Access Points and Remote Access Points as needed. We also expanded to a redundant controller which allows High Availability.
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DImo Dimov
R&D Engineer IC Design at inLab Ltd
It is a scalable solution.
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Liyakath Muhammed
CEO at Radax Software Solutions
The scalability is okay.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
View full review »Aruba Wireless is scalable, but it has limitations.
When you reach the limit of 100 users or have too many devices, you will experience a loss of connectivity.
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Antonio Chuquimarca
Project and Services Manager at Gensystems
The solution can scale well and has helped us to increase capacity.
We don't have plans to increase usage at this time.
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MarcoPiazzalunga
Networking Solution Architect at ALE
With Aruba Wireless you can scale to 10,000 IPs. It's very scalable. In our office, we use around 100. We have customers around the world.
We use Aruba Wireless with thousands of internal users in our office. We resell the product around the globe, so we have thousands of people connected. No extra staff is required to maintain the installation.
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Jacob Golick
System Specialist at a newspaper with 501-1,000 employees
The largest implementation that I was able to do was about 15 APs, with no issues.
View full review »It scales incredibly well. We did have some scalability issues with the system a long time ago, but they fixed that rather quickly. We also changed product lines at around that time. We were outgrowing the product a little bit too quickly, but since we've moved to the new controllers, it's been rock solid.
View full review »We have approximately 200 people using this solution in my organization.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »All you need to do is buy licenses for the access points that you have on those campuses.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Mathew Simupande
HPE Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Scalability is pretty good. I believe they recommend having up to 50 APs per cluster, but it can scale even more than that. I don't really need that in particular, although it's an enterprise-standard product. The throughput is pretty good.
View full review »No issues with scalability. 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. This is one of the best features of the Aruba Wireless Instant product line, besides the fact that you do not need a dedicated "controller."
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reviewer1268583
Network Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
A lot of people use the solution. We have about 120 access points and more than 1,500 clients who use it daily.
In terms of scalability, it is very easy to expand the network. We build new schools and buildings all the time so the usage is always increasing.
We've had some scalability issues because of the way we're scaling our hardware base. For example, we started with 64 access points although our controller supports only 6 core access points. We've scaled incrementally, though, as we then went to 128 and then to 200, whereas our competitors start high.
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Napa Sittipan
Technical cons at Tangerine Co.,Ltd.
We have enterprise businesses as our customers for the solution. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.
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Samy Masihy
Wifi Solution Architect at Netpro SpA
We've found the solution to be scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so easily.
View full review »The amount of work that the controllers are handling is perfect. It's very good.
View full review »I do not know what the maximum number of APs in a cluster can be (for the Instant series), but I never seemed to hit a limit. At one site, we had 12 clustered together.
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Prem V
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The scalability is very high with Aruba Wireless.
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Jorge Aldana
Director of Networks at Sellcom Solutions
Aruba Wireless is scalable. You can add more people. You can use the same configuration for 50 or 2,000, or 5,000 users.
View full review »It's very scalable. If one of our offices wants extra AP's, we can just ship them and they just need to plug them them. That's it.
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reviewer1434741
Head of Operations & Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As a solution suitable for enterprises, it can scale quite well. A company should have no trouble expanding it if they need to.
View full review »I know that we actually have a very large organization that's doing a full HPE rollout right now. We're going to assist with that. It definitely seems very scalable.
View full review »It's highly scalable, and I like the way they have orientated their portfolio. They have a configuration called 'Instant' where you don't actually need a controller, you can just start with a couple of access points and get it at relatively low cost. As you scale it out, you can add more access points, and one or two controllers, and manage it through the cloud. So almost any configuration the customer wants they can do, and as it gets larger, you can bring in the management tools. It's not like some solutions where you have to rip it out to go larger.
View full review »The particular model (MSM 720) doesn’t provide much in terms of scalability. It only allows for 40 Access Points which my company has about that number.
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reviewer880782
Networking Enterprise Specialist at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
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Luiz Canario
Integration and Support Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Its scalability is okay.
View full review »Aruba has a very scalable product with different hardwar, software and complementary products such as AirWave and ClearPass.
View full review »It is a very scalable product. The new centralized licensing and the newer controller models have made scalability even easier.
View full review »We have not required scaling at this point.
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Gaurav Vyas
Head Of Information Technology at Jekson Vision Pvt Ltd
We have more than 100 users.
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MarcoPiazzalunga
Networking Solution Architect at ALE
The scalability is very good. You can use it from SME through to enterprise companies. It provides full coverage.
View full review »We have no issues in scalability.
View full review »The solution is scalable and stable
Very few scalability issues, mostly user error.
View full review »The licensing works during peak hours but not during non-peak hours. We're expecting in the near future around 15,000 handheld devices as well as 9,000 BYOD, probably next year.
View full review »We don't have any notable issues with scalability right now. From time to time, we've noticed that with 5,500 APs, we do have some issues, but they're not anything we wouldn't expect.
View full review »There have been no scalability issues.
View full review »They can go from short range to long range, and there are many new features for connecting additional users.
View full review »I haven’t had any issues with scalability. We haven’t had any growth or additional things since we deployed the Aruba 3400 series platform.
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Saseendran Vasu
Organization Civil Engineer with 1-10 employees
I am satisfied with the scalability.
View full review »They didn't found any issues yet.
View full review »The 7000 is highly scalable. You can start with a lower controller model, and as a client's requirement increases, you can always migrate to a newer model. They'll still have all the licenses that they previously purchased.
View full review »No, we don't as long as we purchase the license.
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reviewer1429029
Converged Services Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1422075
Team Leader Network and Communications at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have been experiencing some scalability and stability issues on our Apple devices.
View full review »We use it the most in our largest manufacturing site with several big warehouses. It scaled just find in this environment.
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reviewer1775661
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution scales easily.
View full review »Not really, it has supported all the protocols that I have needed.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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View full review »None. Never seen a scalability issue.
View full review »We're planning for 300 access points, and right now we only have six. We have older HP products, but once we get our new access points, we should be able to scale without problems.
View full review »It is a scalable product, but it does not have a Virtual version of the controller.
View full review »Scalability has been one of the best features in which we can make our customers happy.
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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.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.