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What do you like most about Aruba Wireless?
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The Airwave is the best feature for a single management point for all APs in the environment.
All features are useful for me. It lets me perform some specific configurations depending on the site or the client. All WAN features are valuable.
Aruba is an industry leader. The hardware is on par, and its performance is also on par with anybody else. The Aruba brand really only focuses on wireless, so they're not competing their R&D for switching data center products and cloud security. They're really focused on that and their underlying key pieces.
They provide a role-based authentication that is native to the controller. A lot of other systems don't do that. They won't provide you the ability to basically have everybody join the network, regardless of whether or not they share the same network space, the SSID, or the wireless LAN. You can segment it down to a specific user role based on any kind of attributes that you like. That's their differentiator. If you need per user, per device, or per port segmentation, you can get that with Aruba. There isn't another vendor who does it.
The functionality is very high and we can properly meet the clients' requirements.
The solution is quite stable and very robust.
Aruba Wireless is stable and we plan to continue using it in the future.
There is no problem with downtime.
I have not experienced any bugs, software, or hardware issues with Aruba.
I really like the user interface.
The most valuable feature is the client match.
The technical support is 24/7 from the UA.
The most valuable feature is the fact that it can work with many devices. It supports everything that we need it to.
The technical support is very good.
I like the way it groups and manages access points.
The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is application monitoring.
It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network.
I have found the Access Point (AP) group profile feature extremely useful. It makes deployments look easy.
It delivers constantly, there is no break in the internet using these devices. It also automatically gets connected when the internet comes back. Failure is very low.
The performance and the application monitor. You can select the applications you want to use and block on your network
With the central management system, I'm able to access each device. I can configure one device and then it provisions all the other devices with the same configuration, rather than my having to configure them one by one.
With Aruba Wireless Controller, all our access points are connected to one controller. Through that controller, we can actually handle each access point; we can disconnect or connect that access point, and then we can tell, or see, or allow how many users are, or should be, connected through that access point.
It provides superior WiFi access and RF management.
We have three wireless networks: One for employee use, one for guest use, and one for our warehouse use, which uses MAC authentication. These wireless networks just simply work, they do not fail. The IAP-205 devices are very strong with great range. Very durable equipment; it always works.
It has improved overall IT efficiency across the board.
The 335-AP provides reliability, stability.
The feature that I love the most is being able to broadcast different SSIDs with different protocol requirements.
The web interface to manage the APs is intuitive and makes managing the system easy. Firmware updates are quick and do not require much downtime.
Its manageability of APs is the most valuable feature: ease of adding APs and the ability to configure the APs on the fly. Also, their support engineers are great to work with.
Aruba allowed for the detailed control and management of an entire WiFi network from a single screen backed by a support team with local SEs who work with business partners to ensure the product's success.
ClearPass is a unique product that contains multiple solutions like BYOD, Guest, NAC, AAA, UEBA, etc. There is also quick support from Aruba TAC.
The product improved overall scalability and simplicity in configuring and replacing. The use of an Aruba Controller to configure multiple APs was game-changing.
It provided an easy WiFi solution for our branch offices to deploy. We could usually have them up and running from out-of-the-box in about 10 minutes.
Ability for a student or teacher to be able to roam freely from classroom to classroom, no matter the floor, without dropping a signal.
The virtual controller has options for updating and remotely restarting any AP from one controller panel.
As we have acquired a few companies, having the ability to have multiple RADIUS connections has helped us.
The initial setup is straightforward. Configure one IAP and all the rest self-configure to that one.
Our wireless overhaul has reduced the number of wireless related help desk tickets by nearly 90%.
The biggest selling point was the ability to create two different SSIDs to control public versus private wireless networks.
The initial setup was very easy and intuitive.
Basic initial setup is very easy when it comes to a new user on-premise.
We are redoing Wi-Fi and the related Ethernet switches to support it. We're moving from Cisco environment and considering Aruba 515, w/CX6400 Cisco Meraki or possible on-prem Wi-Fi controller, Arista Mojo, or Extreme Networks ExtremeCloud IQ.
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