We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the Aruba Smart Rate Port."
"I like the number of available throughputs and its ability to have different speeds of ethernet cards or fiber-optic SFPs. It's a core switch, and you can configure it as per your requirements. All the configuration details are well documented on the HP website or Aruba website, and one can easily refer to those and find all the relevant commands from the documentation itself. It's also easy to maintain this solution. It's also cheaper than competing products."
"These switches have a good performance, and they are also quickly configurable."
"They provide great service in terms of replacing malfunctioning switches."
"This solution is really easy to use. It is much easier to use than Cisco. It's got a nice web interface for stepping up and an added warranty."
"Aruba access points have a good transfer rate."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"The advantage I found is that they can be used as both on-premises devices and cloud-managed devices, with the option for an additional license to become cloud devices. This flexibility is very valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that Insight is cloud-managed. The whole reason behind it is that there is one central place to manage it. You can pre-configure everything and you can get access to it without having to get onto the client's network. That makes it easy to use and deploy."
"The solution helps transfer data."
"There is a lot of helpful documentation that helps with the configuration process."
"The tool is stable."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"For what I used this switch for, it did well."
"The most valuable feature to me is the modular side of things, being able to replace a module and a transceiver at our beck and call. If something goes down, or a piece of equipment is broken, I don't have to replace the whole switch. I can just replace the part that's broken or the part that is no longer working. I can get them back up and working within a matter of minutes, versus having to replace everything and reprogram everything. It's a huge time-saver."
"Netgear switches are highly reliable. We haven't done anything particularly sophisticated with them."
"Aruba's website should be localized to support the Indonesian language. The content of their website and the help desk should be in the Indonesian language."
"The customer service could be a bit quicker and the employees could be more professional."
"I am forced to consider changing products because other solutions have a better dashboard and a user-friendly interface."
"If we compare Aruba and Cisco at the data center layer, Cisco has its Nexus switch. Aruba provides the new 10000 series, but it does not compare with the Nexus switch."
"The element of security always can be improved. If the solution continues to improve its security functionality, it will continue to be a great product."
"It would be better and easier for us to buy if the price were reduced."
"Aruba Switches' price could improve, if they were less expensive it would be beneficial."
"We don't have visibility in Aruba Switches and we are thinking of switching to Fortiswitch because it has visibility."
"The solution needs centralized management and centralized configuration."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can be improved."
"If they could come up with ways to look at metrics on it while the video is capping through the system, that would be nice. There could be some interesting uses for that, but it's a long way off."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
"When the power does go out, or if we do a soft shutdown, some of the transceivers or the monitor don't recognize when it turns back on, so I have to physically unplug it and plug it back in and then it works. We're working with NETGEAR's engineers to figure out why that's happening."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Cisco Catalyst Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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