We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Ubiquiti UniFi Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions provide quality, durable switches. Aruba Switches is the go-to solution for many PeerSpot users. The Aruba Central Platform provides complete visibility and gives users greater control regarding applications, protocols, and VLANs. The solution provides great open architecture. The high number of available throughputs and the solution's flexibility to allow different speeds of ethernet cards and fiber-optic SFPs help make Aruba Switches the preferred solution.
"The initial setup is quite easy."
"They provide great service in terms of replacing malfunctioning switches."
"These switches have a good performance, and they are also quickly configurable."
"The most valuable feature is the Aruba Smart Rate Port."
"The solution has great open architecture."
"The most valuable Aruba switch feature is the lifetime warranty. It is a plus point in the budget."
"Aruba offers better options when it comes to the area of scalability compared to what Cisco offers. Aruba has a better graphical user interface that helps users with the configuration part."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is its performance."
"This product is very reasonably priced."
"The ability to deploy quickly and then having one central location for all the settings are its most valuable aspects."
"Ubiquiti is one step above the consumer level. They cost a little bit more, but they just seem to be drop-dead reliable, and they're keeping up with the latest standards."
"For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily."
"The GUI interface is very easy to use and the Linux-based command-line interface is also good."
"It offers very good control."
"The value here with using the Ubiquiti products across the board is that they're almost all single-pane management and the single-pane management is included. It's a huge benefit."
"Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc."
"I would say that the customization of the switches could be easier to configure."
"The endpoint capabilities could be improved."
"It's a little less convenient for more simplified management needs."
"Aruba Switches cover lots of areas and support automated and IOPS and with the central products, but I think when we look at the solutions overall, IOPS devices are not covered so much in Aruba Central. We are in Croatia and it is a small country, I don't know how its situation is in Europe, America, or Asia."
"Technical support response time could be better."
"Aruba Switches could improve the monitoring and increase the scope of their online portal to cover cloud and on-premise deployments."
"The written documentation, all the available documentation, is often a little bit hard to find. The solution lacks documentation, especially on recent features. We have access directly to Aruba, Germany, so they are always helpful, but if you start, for instance, with something a little bit more complex like zero-touch provisioning, that would require a more comprehensive written piece."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing because the Aruba Central licenses add a high cost."
"New products don't integrate well with their management platform. Sometimes you have to go directly to the box or the switch to do the management."
"The routing capabilities of Layer 3 should be made easier to implement."
"We have been having issues with non-homogeneity."
"The stability and installation could be improved."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches need to add DNS lookup features."
"In terms of improvement, sometimes we have bugs."
"The initial deployment was a bit complex."
"Most configuration can be done on the GUI but sometimes you have to go under the hood and tweak on the CLI."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 42 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Ubiquiti UniFi 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Rock solid stability with adjustable voltage configuration for PoE". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches, Meraki MS Switches and Luxul Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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