We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant and Fortinet FortiWLC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cisco, Ruckus and others in Wireless LAN."The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"Juniper Mist offers valuable features like comprehensive network insight, granular policy control, fast device setup, strong security, and efficient SSL traffic management."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The simplicity is great."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"The solution is stable."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that the tool offers a ZTP feature."
"The access it grants to wifi is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Captive Portal, which we employ for our guest network. It enables us to create a separate virtual subnet for guests, ensuring their network traffic remains isolated from our office network. Another valuable feature is its role-based access control. This functionality allows us to assign different access privileges to users based on their roles within the organization."
"If you don't need heavy-duty filtering and things like that, it's a cheap solution. And, you have central management, and it works."
"In terms of stability, Aruba Instant is the best on the market."
"The installation is very simple. We've limited the security feature, which I found valuable, and that allows two separate networks, one for the company and one for a guest network. During installation, it is very easy at that point to divide it."
"Aruba Instant is easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Instant is its cloud capability, which allows us to manage it through the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWLC is the overall high quality."
"It's easy to set everything up during implementation."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"The solution is expensive."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"The management component is difficult to understand and not very user-friendly which increases deployment time."
"This solution would be improved if they supplied free software controllers."
"Although built-in troubleshooting tools are available, they are not at all intuitive to use. Aruba Instant lacks decent documentation to use for troubleshooting wireless issues (fortunately there aren’t many)."
"For on-premises, I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. For on-prem, if I want to integrate two more controls, and I want to extend my network , and add a couple of access points that need to be integrated with my network, I have to do the configurations and all. So that will be each and every time, as and when the users expand, the Wi-Fi solution expands; I need to do the configuration settings on all other controllers."
"The solution should be able to support more users on the access points."
"The product can be improved by adding a clear interface."
"I think that the next release should offer IP phone security/firewall."
"The support offered by Aruba is slow."
"Fortinet FortiWLC is not simple to configure when compared to other solutions. The design could be better."
"One thing that is lacking is, compared with some other brands, the signal is a bit weaker. Ruckus has much wider signal coverage."
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Aruba Instant is ranked 6th in Wireless LAN with 43 reviews while Fortinet FortiWLC is ranked 25th in Wireless LAN with 2 reviews. Aruba Instant is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiWLC is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant writes "A highly stable and easy-to-deploy solution that is free and provides excellent deployment guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWLC writes "Quick support, overall high quality, and reliable". Aruba Instant is most compared with Omada Access Points, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Aruba Wireless and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Fortinet FortiWLC is most compared with Fortinet FortiWLM.
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