Aruba Airwave Reviews

Visibility and control in any environment, especially Healthcare,Finance, Education and SLED accounts.

Gives us network access control, visibility, scalability, security, and control in what is becoming an uncontrollable, inundated BYOD and IoT world.

The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard.

It contains valuable features for engineers to C-level executives, who want visibility, performance, statistics, and a platform which can take action for them without manual intervention, saving time and money.

Aruba is always finding better, innovative ways to make their products easier and more friendly. It is always being improved, but what I would like to see is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service. This way, like AWS, they can spin up what they need when they need it and vice versa.

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Awesome tech support when needed. Each customer is given a customer number and TAC will follow through until all issues are resolved, whether it be a flaw in the product or a customer misconfiguration.

I did not personally use a previous solution.

Initial setup is straightforward. It is recommended to read the manual before implementation.

I provide straight answers. Licensing and pricing are extremely straightforward.

Run a 90 day free Proof of Concept (PoC) for each product by implementing and using it fully in your environment. This way you will be educated on its features, functionality, and manageability.

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My primary use case of this solution is to control access points through airwave. modify configs, and enhance RF tweaking. 

It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient. Airwave has so many features built in that allow for speed and efficiency (clarity, visualrf, airwatch) that processes and troubleshooting are greatly enhanced. 

• Clarity - both live and synthic for different reasons, but enhanced and efficient use of staff troubleshooting time.
• Visual RF - visual location of rogues, clients, and estimated coverage enhance and make troubleshooting more efficieint

Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker.

I would like to see Airwave and IMC integrated so that it's like an add-on feature to Airwave. Or that Airwave is an add-on feature inside of IMC. A lot of the features from IMC would be useful as another tab, like Clarity tab, Visual RF, AirWatch or AirMatch tab. The IMC functions would be useful as well.

Stability is good. 

Scalability is pretty good. My highest deployment is over five to seven thousand. Half a dozen staff is required for maintenance. There probably won't be any bigger deployments of it now. 

Technical support is good. 

We were previously using Cisco Prime. We switched because Aruba is easier to use. 

Deployment took an hour and a half to two hours.

It helps people with troubleshooting so they get better use out of their technical staff.

Pricing and licensing are pretty good. I personally don't like the way it's licensed but everybody has their own things about that.

I think everybody needs this solution. It helps a lot with technical troubleshooting and no matter what end products you have, Airwave is a good solution for everybody.

I would rate it an eight and a half out of ten. 

• The organization of infrastructure is valuable.
• Client match/ARM is also good.

It provides an easy way to track access point statistics and organization of access points compared to the controller.

• Stability of GUI
• Stability of instant access point management

I've used it for two years.

8/10

8/10

No previous solution was used.

ROI is good, and the technology has a good life span.

Licensing can be complicated, but they are usually flexible.

Weigh up the options between thin access points and instant access points.

We are a solution provider and Aruba Airwave is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Most of our customers use this product to manage and monitor their networks.

What I like about Aruba is that it has a lot of features.

The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved.

We have been deploying Aruba Airwave to our customers for two years, and I have been working on it for almost three.

This solution is definitely stable.

Aruba Airwave is scalable.

The license allows anywhere from 100 to 1,000 users, and then from 1,000 and above.

It was easy to install, not complex.

It took about thirty minutes to deploy.

This solution requires a moderate amount of staff to deploy and maintain.

I completed the implementation myself.

This product is not expensive.

I recommend this product and we have plans to continue providing it to our clients, depending on their requirements.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.