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Aruba Wireless mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Aruba Wireless in the Wireless LAN category stands at 18.8%, down from 23.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
6%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
University
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Healthcare Company
5%
Retailer
4%
Construction Company
4%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Hospitality Company
3%
Non Profit
3%
Media Company
3%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%

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Muhammad_Faisal - PeerSpot user
Manager ITSM at Lucky Cement Limited
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Dec 19, 2024
Experience seamless connectivity with top-notch roaming capabilities

Pros

"The Aruba Wireless solution has excellent roaming capabilities, ensuring seamless connectivity."

Cons

"They need to work on reducing prices as they are currently on the higher side. "
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Network and Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Oct 22, 2020
Product version discussed: 8.6
Overall a good product that provides role-based authentication native to the controller, but has code stability issues

Pros

"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."

Cons

"Currently, the stability of the code is the basic underlying problem for us. They had an 8.6 release that came out two weeks ago, but we had to migrate twice because the code wasn't stable. We can't get things to work the same way. Version 8 was a big change for them. They made a change so that it is forced to be a managed hierarchical system. It means that you make changes at the top, and it pushes them downstream. There are a lot of problems with the 8.6 version code. I ran into four bugs in one week and was informed that we should just move onto the next one because all of those fixes have taken place. The feedback loop for fixes is not always really relayed back to you. I don't have a lot of strong things to say about version 8.6. When we had version 6, the controller was pretty much rock solid. We had no problems. We made a heavy investment to migrate a lot of stuff to take advantage of things like WPA3, Wi-Fi 6, and all that kind of stuff, and we haven't been able to turn those features on because we are not confident that they are going to work just yet. So, right now, we're still very much stumbling through the version 8.6 code and just trying to make sure that it is safe before we turn on some of those features. In terms of the marketplace, they are one of the top three leaders. In some respects, one of the things that they focus on is wireless. Therefore, there are some things that should be beyond reproach, as far as I'm concerned. In terms of the stability of the code, there are always going to be bugs, but the core stability of the code needs to be there. When it is not stable, that's a real problem for me because you lose a lot of confidence in the products."
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Rahul Bogala - PeerSpot user
General Manager - Network and Infrastructure Security Business Unit at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Feb 24, 2022
Product version discussed: AP-515
We've gone two years without downtime

Pros

"I think Aruba Wireless' Wi-Fi 6 capability is something that really makes a difference. We used to have bottlenecks. Each user has one laptop on one mobile device, so that equals 40 devices connecting to one AP. The Wi-Fi 5 series couldn't handle the traffic during peak hours, and when I say "peak hours," I mean Monday at 11 a.m. We used to see a lot of packet drops, but we haven't seen that problem at all since we moved to Wi-Fi 6. "

Cons

"There is a long queue whenever we reach out to support, and we have to wait for them to answer calls. Once we get in touch with them, we have to coordinate with different teams, so our engineers struggle to understand who are the correct team members. I think support is another area where Aruba needs to improve. "
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District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Sep 21, 2020
Some of the implementations or features do work as advertised. Urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation.

Pros

"It has an aesthetically pleasing GUI for configuration."

Cons

"The urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation."
Prashant-Patel - PeerSpot user
Senior Presales Consultant - Networking Solutions at Mannai
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Oct 25, 2023
A stable solution that gives wireless network coverage to users without connecting PCs or laptops to the network

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is multi-tenancy."

Cons

"The solution could be improved on the security side."
Anar Safibayov - PeerSpot user
Director, Information Technology at Four Seasons Hotels
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Jun 20, 2022
Product version discussed: 7010
It has built-in IoT functionality without the need for an additional dongle

Pros

"One advantage is the built-in Zigbee-based IoT functionality. You don't need an additional dongle to enable that option. "

Cons

"Aruba is missing some features that are available in other solutions, such as the email notifications. It's a bit complex to configure the notification part. Mainly I'm talking about the rogue WiFi detection. This email notification is crucial for us, but it isn't possible to configure with the built-in software. You need something else, like an external system log collector or another Aruba software. These notifications are essential in hospitality for PCI compliance. My colleagues in famous luxury hotel chains need that report."
AV
Architect at VJCR
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Jan 10, 2023
Product version discussed: 535
A stable, scalable solution, and easy to deploy

Pros

"The most useful feature of this product is the configuration that allows us to have several areas covered with one unit."

Cons

"The bad things about the product are the price, the information about the product, and the time it takes to deliver the product. "
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Senior Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Aruba Wireless
Jan 8, 2023
The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable

Pros

"The solution is well designed so you can easily integrate it in an infrastructure network. "

Cons

"The solution's documentation could be better organized in an information portal."