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SecArch Head at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Fortinet is easy to use. Even if we do not have formal training, the learning curve is easy. We can figure it out by going through the interface. The Fortinet Cookbook is simple to understand. Fortinet products are easier to integrate. It is a lot more complex for Cisco. However, Cisco is more stable than Fortinet.

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Sumanth Myneni - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at PepsiCo

I have used other solutions previously.

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DH
IT Manager at International School of Tianjin

We've recently moved from Cisco to Aruba. I've noticed a few differences between the two, and I'm trying to educate myself on both solutions. Aruba made a late delivery, so we just finished setting it up last month.

We use Aruba for everything and Palo Alto for Firewalls. 

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Bram Cuppens - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at UC Leuven-Limburg

I've also used, for example, Aruba.

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TS
CEO at Ionon

We previously used Linksys. We switched to Cisco because of its sustainability and expandability.

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MV
Coordinator of IT infrastructures at UMC Electronics Mexico

I work in the other companies with Cisco and other brands as well as Aruba and HP.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

I have used other similar products in the past, including HPE Wireless WAN and Ubiquity Wireless, but this Cisco product is one that the client already had in place.

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Director at a government with 11-50 employees

I have had previous experience with Meraki, Ruckus, various prosumer products as well as Aruba. My favorite is Cisco, and my second favorite is Cisco Meraki. The reasons are too many to list here.  

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UA
Manager - Technology at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are also selling Cisco Meraki products along with the standard Cisco portfolio. I don't have a lot of experience with Meraki, because we mainly recommend those products to small and medium environments, especially if the customer doesn't have a lot of networking staff and they simply want to bring WiFi services up quickly. 

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ZS
SE at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

I have not used other solutions other than Cisco Wireless WAN.

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AF
Senior IT Support Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We did not previously use a different solution. 

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Ahmed Hawana - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at IDSC

I did not switch from a different solution. We've always used Cisco.

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Ghayas Uddin - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Indus Motor Company

In the past we used D-Link Access Point and it was not very good. However, it is very good when we convert this new technology in respect of the Cisco 2800 Series. With the 2800 model there have been no issues save for the one involving compliance testing of the Cambium product for the POC. After two or three months it ceased to work properly. It is not a good product. We tested the Cambium product, as well.

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Md Manirul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant general manager at Beximcocomputers

I have used Aruba Wireless.

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Technical Coordinator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have dealt with Extreme Wireless, especially Extreme IQ Cloud. Compared to Extreme, Cisco is way ahead.

It's very easy to deploy. I like Cisco's dashboard. I think it's more user friendly than the Extreme dashboard.

Extreme is easy to deploy, and management is very nice, but the performance isn't good so far. We are using the essential license now, not the pilot license, which is the advanced feature license. When we get the pilot license, I don't know if my mind will change, but for now the performance is way better in Cisco.

When I'm deploying Extreme, it's hard to get information from the internet. I'm not talking about the support from the company. 

With Cisco products, there's a ton of information on YouTube, in Cisco documentation, and on Cisco's website. With Extreme, I couldn't get that information.  

With the same infrastructure, switches, logical topology, and physical topology, Extreme's performance isn't very good. It might be because of the license. When I talk with the company, they say, "If you don't have the Extreme pilot license, you can't get high balances." 

For example, you can only get 150 megabits. It's like one channel at a time. They say that when we install the license, we'll get higher balances, but we haven't experienced that yet. We are waiting for the installation to complete, and then we'll get the license.

Cisco's performance is much better.

I also have experience with Huawei. Cisco's deployment is much better in comparison.

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ANKIT GAJJAR - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at CPS TECHNOLOGIES

We've always used Cisco. We've used Cisco for a long time. However, we are looking for something that offers more features and more options. If that's Cisco, great, if that's something else, we are open to it. 

We also used Aruba and Ubiquiti in the past.

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

I have used Ubiquiti previously and this solution is more stable.

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IM
Technical Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Previously, we were using the Cisco 5500 series and the 8500 series.

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DD
Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

Prior to Cisco, we used Palo Alto. The switch was made to Cisco because we wanted to standardize the network throughout the company. 

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SB
Manager - IT at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have traditionally used Cisco and are finally now changing because of the price.

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MA
Network Operations Supervisor at a government with 10,001+ employees

We have been working on Cisco for many years now, so we just upgraded to Cisco Wireless WAN.

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MN
Network & Information Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I also have experience with solutions from Aruba and Avaya XE. We removed the Avaya units after their merger and are sticking with solutions from Cisco and Aruba.

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