We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Fortinet FortiWLM 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."
"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 predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"It allows us to prepare more real designs. Later, we validate them with actual surveys."
"Customer service is great."
"We use the solution for Wi-Fi and networks."
"The most valuable features are the survey, spectrum analysis, and reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the predictive survey. The antennas' RF patterns are reflected correctly on the drawing when preparing predictive heat maps."
"Fortinet FortiWLM is good for tracking assets, monitoring, and overall management."
"Seamless roaming by leveraging Virtual Cell is a major advantage which reduces roam times and issues related to roaming. Code stability has been excellent and the hardware quality is second to none."
"I use Fortinet FortiWLM for wireless communication and the internet."
"At the moment, particularly with the COVID-19 situation, the most valuable feature is probably the IPsec VPN, which is easy to implement with Fortinet."
"The security is a valuable feature."
"Although there are a few steps, the initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWLM is the single management pane and integrated controller inside the firewall."
"We can deploy a tunnel-based VLAN and SSID, for something that happens at the last minute, in a matter of minutes, because of the interaction between the FortiGate, the FortiSwitches, and the FortiAPs."
"But it's definitely a more expensive solution than other ones."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"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."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"Less time consumed doing the real surveys."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"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."
"When using the FortiGate as the wireless controller, you cannot have automatic user registration, which is something that they should offer."
"This solution should be easier to set up in a production environment."
"The pricing model can be improved to encourage use by small business and individuals and the hardware could stand to be redesigned."
"The interface could certainly do with some improvement. We have other customers with WiFi networks, and they always use Ubiquiti. With Ubiquiti, it's a much better user interface, and it is much easier to configure."
"There is very little publicly available information about Virtual Cell and Single Channel Architecture. Promotion of the overall technology is limited as well. Being more vocal about a product that has many advantages would go a long way to eliminating a lot of the confusion and negative perception about Virtual Cell and Single Channel Architecture."
"I have used Cisco previously and I don't see any specific differences from Fortinet FortiWLM or other vendors."
"In the next release, they could improve by adding a controller-less server, or architecture that is provided in other solutions, such as Aruba. This would be a great benefit for customers."
"Technical support is very poor. We are not satisfied with the technical support because there is not any direct person from Fortinet for any troubleshooting, which we expected."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 2nd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiWLM is ranked 15th in Wireless LAN with 22 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWLM is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiWLM writes "Impressive manufacturing quality, highly durable, and very easy to deploy". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, Aruba Wireless, AirCheck G3, iBwave Wi-Fi and Ubiquiti WLAN, whereas Fortinet FortiWLM is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Ubiquiti Wireless.
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