We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Aruba Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."I would like to rate the product as eight of ten."
"The predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"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."
"It allows us to prepare more real designs. Later, we validate them with actual surveys."
"The heat maps are quite good, and some features are easy to use."
"Using the products to ensure the safety of our equipment that we have a lot invested in."
"It is reliable and easy to use (user-friendly). The heat mapping, passive network surveying, and doing the heat mapping of a building's wireless network allows me to see what level of coverage an area has."
"The most valuable features are the survey, spectrum analysis, and reporting."
"With Aruba Wireless Controller, all our access points are connected to one controller. Through that controller, we can actually handle each access point; we can disconnect or connect that access point, and then we can tell, or see, or allow how many users are, or should be, connected through that access point."
"Although there are other solutions available and some with a lower initial cost, they don't offer the same level of integration with IoT as this solution without having to add additional hardware, which ends up costing more."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. We set up the switches and APs, then took it from there. "
"The initial setup was very simple."
"Our wireless overhaul has reduced the number of wireless related help desk tickets by nearly 90%."
"AirWave is a valuable feature."
"I really like the user interface."
"Installation is relatively easy."
"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."
"AirMagnet Survey doesn't cover certain devices in the system."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"It'd be nice if it was cheaper, however, you get value for your money."
"The user interface needs a lot of improvement. The auto-placement of access points is not accurate."
"Aruba Wireless can improve the assigning of access points. We have times that the nearest access point is not assigned but one far away. The integration between access points could improve."
"They could work on energy consumption as this equipment needs a lot of energy."
"The urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation."
"For a more senior tool, a local application monitoring related to IoT vendors would be useful."
"Aruba Wireless could improve the dashboard. It is not straightforward or intuitive to use and could be more user-friendly. For IT employees the dashboards are fine but when it comes to the end-user it is difficult. The Mobility Controller dashboard is not meant for non-IT employees."
"The new 8400 failed at Lab, plus its integration with Aruba Central."
"The network times for protocol synchronization can be improved."
"We would like to declare a specific number of devices that an employee or a user can use to access their Wi-Fi."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 2nd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 38 reviews while Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AirMagnet Survey writes "It fixes so many problems quickly that we don't regret spending more on high-end tools than most companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, AirCheck G3, iBwave Wi-Fi, Ubiquiti WLAN and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, whereas Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points.
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