Huawei Wireless Reviews

We mostly use the on-premises version. I believe they don't have a private cloud offering yet on the controller. Either way, it's on-premises that we are using now.

That would be more of engineering at this point. I'm from more of the business side. It's pretty much doing the standard installations with portal integrations and integrations with the Mac.

Improving the visibility, control offered, and cloud management would all be very helpful. Also how you can monetize the information you get from Wi-Fi controllers should be improved.

It's pretty stable.

The scalability depends on which model you are using. It is pretty scalable for an enterprise. We haven't tried it on a cloud model, so I wouldn't know.

We don't have that many users internally. We're mostly using it for some fragments in the innovation center. We mainly use a different solution. We are using it in different fragments of the management department. We don't have a bulk of users there, but as an estimate, you could say 50 to 60 users.

The customer support is pretty good.

We have different vendors we work with. We work with Cisco and Aruba as well.

We do a standard installation unless there's a requirement from the customer to customize it. If there is customization, that can get as complex as it can be in an enterprise environment.

Deployment time varies. There's no standard. A very standard configuration is about a day or two, but that still depends.

We have all sizes of customers.

It's a pretty good solution. The design has to be right. If the design is done properly and the conditions are right, it's a stellar product.

It would probably be a seven or eight out of ten.

I am using Huawei Wireless for WiFi access in my home.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its simplicity.

The solution could be easier to use.

I have been using Huawei Wireless for years.

Using the support was a good experience.

I tried other solutions but they were not very stable.

The setup of the solution was simple. It took approximately one hour. The setup can be done by one person.

My ISP come to my house and installed the solution.

Huawei Wireless was a good investment.

I pay monthly for the solution.

It's a strong product, which is the reason that we are using it.

It has all of the features that we need.

The manageability could be improved.

I have been using Huawei Wireless for three years.

It is very cost-effective.

I would rate Huawei Wireless a seven out of ten.

We are a service provider and Huawei wireless is one of the solutions that we implement for our clients.

This solution is very simple and the interface is user-friendly.

The coverage is good.

This solution has issues with bugs and instability.

In the future, I would like to see network access control features.

We have been working with Huawei for two or three years.

This is not a very stable product.

We haven't had any problems with scalability. One of our clients has approximately 100 users.

I also have a little bit of experience with Cisco and Aruba Wireless products. I find that the Aruba administration interface is more difficult to use than the other two. Huawei is cheaper than both Cisco and Aruba.

We have run into bugs while deploying this product.

One or two administrators are required for maintenance.

Huawei comes at a cheaper price than competitors like Cisco and Aruba.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

I have successfully designed and installed the Huawei Wireless product portfolio on a big university campus wireless network project.

The entire campus (students, administration, the project team, and purchase team) was very happy with this particular product.

Whatever our goal is, they are performing.

You can add a lot of features, such as cloud, integration with IoT, etc. They have a lot of options available but the top feature is the performance. 

The throughput and speed of the wireless is good.

Huawai has been successfully introduced to the IPv6 access point.

Huawei has a bit of a gap in the SMB segment. Apart from the enterprise and big customers, you have also very big market in India for the small- and medium-class businesses (SMBs) and Huawei Wireless could adapt to these smaller businesses. SMB IT procurement is almost 40 to 45 percent of the business happening. I would recommend for Huawei to introduce some SMB product line because Cisco and Aruba, which are very big organizations, already have very good SMB product portfolios. Very recently, Aruba introduced one product portfolio called Aruba Instant On. That is completely designed for the SMB product portfolio and requirements. While there is not much in the feature set, it can meet the daily needs of a small home office, enterprise, or hospitality industry, then be position with very aggressive pricing. These Cisco and Aruba products also work with clustering and can be managed by apps. In addition, Aruba has a future roadmap they manage with some cloud-based authentication and best positioning. They will be introducing this features very soon.

I would like to see Network Access Control (NAC) features going forward.

I have been working on this product for around two years.

There was one time I had a problem with their centralized licensing. I called the Indian call center, but the response was not that good. One guy attended this call and he told me, "Definitely, I am forwarding your call to the next level. I'll let you know." After that, it took between 10 to 15 hours before I got a call back. By then, we had already resolved the issue. Therefore, they could improve the local support; there should be at very good Tier 1 and 2 support in India. They should be both proactive and reactive. 

The initial setup was easy. They have a discovery protocol if your license is properly installed. 

Initially, I did have one problem. The shipped access point was not updated. That is why we had to update every access point.

It was a big campus (seven acres), so a lot of manpower was required. It took almost one week to deploy. We had a team who did things like cable deploying. Two or three engineers were involved for the wireless configuration and product installation.

You can purchase an additional switch with an additional switch. That is a good milestone.

We don't have any control on the pricing. This comes from Huawei in India. Pricing-wise, Huawei is very aggressive and competitive if you compare them to competitors, like Cisco, Aruba, and Ruckus. The Indian Huawei team tells us, "Just pick up the order and design the infrastructure. If there are any pricing challenge, we'll work on that and we will try to match things 100 percent."

I have a lot of experience with Cisco and Aruba too. If you compare this product with Cisco and Aruba, the three products are almost the same performise-wise. However, the accessories for this product are better than Cisco or Aruba.

Cisco support is fabulous, even though you have to pay for it. However, our customers are willing to pay for it. Huawei needs to improve its local support in comparison, especially there is a need for expert initial support.

The on-premise solution is a very good product. They are working on the latest technology.

I don't have much experience with their cloud based solution.

I would rate the solution as an eight (out of 10).

We use the solution at home. We primarily use the solution for internet use.

The product is easy to use. 

The signal is very stable and it offers very good performance. For network devices it is great.

The most important aspect of the solution is that it is cheap. It beats solutions at a higher cost.

We've found the solution to be quite stable.

The scalability is okay.

The speed of the product is pretty good.

I've found that the configuration is quite simple to handle.

Technical support has always been quite helpful.

The initial setup is very easy and the deployment is very fast.

The scalability could be a bit better.

I've been using the solution for about five years or so at this point. It's been a while.

The stability is very good. The features support Wi-Fi 6 and it is using very stable technology.

The scalability is okay. If a company needs to expand, it can do so with relative ease. It shouldn't give you any trouble. However, they could always make it a bit better and even more scalable.

I simply use it at home for personal usage. I don't have a need to scale it out too much.

The solution is a local brand and we have local support, It's quite good. I find support to be better than Cisco, to be honest. I'm quite satisfied with the level of service they provide to us.

I also have experience with Cisco.

Both are good brands and good network device providers. Huawei may be the one to choose based on the requirements and based on the bandwidth. Different providers have different costs and a few different features. However, both brands are okay and are good.

The initial setup was not complex. It was pretty straightforward. It's very easy. A company shouldn't have any issue with the process.

The deployment took less than half an hour.

I handled the implementation myself. I did not need a consultant or integrator.

The pricing of the solution is excellent. It's much cheaper than the competition. The pricing is a great selling point.

I don't pay for licensing. I just pay for the device.

We are just a customer and an end-user. 

We are using the latest version of the solution.

I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations.

I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten. We're mostly quite happy with the product, especially the excellent pricing.

We use it for a campus network. We have something like 4G or 5G at the backend, and we have deployed a setpoint at the frontend to provide the services. It is an enterprise-level deployment. We are using its latest version.

It is based on 802.11ax, which is a new technology. There are several valuable things, such as its speed and mobility. There are options for self-organizing networking so that it can perform operations and maintain itself. Its three interfaces are very good and user friendly.

As such, there are no problems. It has been good. There were some issues with the network design, but that is not specifically related to the product. We had to make some improvements in the network design. The product as such is fine, and there are no big issues.

We are using the latest version having most of the features available in the industry, so the specs are very high. If something new comes up new in the industry, it needs to be incorporated into the product.

I have been using this solution for about five to six years.

It is stable. There are some issues, but they are more related to design and installation.

It is scalable. You can scale up. Depending on the requirement, you can add extra nodes.

We deployed it for another organization as a system integrator. They have at least 100 people within the campus network. There are also visitors.

It depends on what kind of agreement we have with them. In some agreements, we can only contact them in case there is something wrong with the product and we need replacement, which is fine because we have the backups. So, we can easily manage that.

The initial setup was easy. We used user-oriented manuals and guidelines for design and installation, so it was fine. 

We spent a lot of time on the design. Therefore, at the time of installation, it didn't take much time. For installation, we were sure what we wanted to do, so it went okay. It was not like plug and play, but overall, it was good.

It is not monthly. It is a kind of perpetual licensing. We pay once depending on the kind of services we need to deliver. There are no licensing fees.

I would recommend this solution, but it depends on the kind of use case we are going into. The main advice is to use the latest technology.

I would rate Huawei Wireless a nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution as a wireless LAN.

The solution's roaming feature is very nice. When you move to another place it automatically changes the access point. It's one of the most valuable features.

The technical support needs to be improved. They also need to produce some more technical guides.

The solution is stable. Once you set up, you don't need to touch it again.

If you have an access controller, the solution is scalable. Our clients are typically medium-sized enterprises. We have about 200 users.

Technical support is not ideal. They sometimes cannot connect to the wireless access point or their connection drops.

The initial setup is simple. It usually takes one day to deploy the solution. You only need one person to maintain it once it is set up.

In terms of advice I'd give to others considering implementing the solution is that it's easy to use if they use an access controller.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate it higher but they don't offer a good technical guide which means you ultimately need to search and try out solutions for yourself.