We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Aruba Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."We use the solution for Wi-Fi and networks."
"The benefit is with the ease of use of the software, I am able to show the customer, "Here is what your wireless coverage looks like." It is set up in a fashion that non-technical people can understand it."
"I would like to rate the product as eight of ten."
"Customer service is great."
"Clear and easy to use maps."
"The addition of the AirMapper software on the nXG and our AirCheck G2s has helped a lot because we're mostly not drilling down into the data. Local managers only need to see the coverage on their end and whether there are performance bottlenecks. These things are easy enough for us to ascertain with iPerf."
"The heat maps are quite good, and some features are easy to use."
"The predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"HA: Apps failover without reboot."
"The cost is pretty good. It's what draws in the clients."
"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."
"The access points support a high number of connected clients."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it can work with many devices. It supports everything that we need it to."
"The biggest selling point was the ability to create two different SSIDs to control public versus private wireless networks."
"It has very flexible features."
"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."
"AirMagnet Survey doesn't cover certain devices in the system."
"Less time consumed doing the real surveys."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"But it's definitely a more expensive solution than other ones."
"It would be nice to have some more training resources for younger techs. We can use them if we need some assistance, but that usually requires one of us who knows what we're doing to calibrate the programs properly."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"Printouts are JPEG printouts. The AirMagnet software is proprietary. I can't send my customers a file, because it is AirMagnet file, even for building projects. I can only send JPEGs or screenshots of heat maps."
"The coverage, concurrent user life, and visualization are the most valuable features of these solutions."
"The user interface could be improved in Aruba Wireless. This would make the setup easier."
"There is a lot of information for users about the product, but it needs to be better organized so that solutions are easier to find."
"There has been a recent decrease in the level of support."
"Their documentation needs to be improved. Aruba's documentation is poor."
"MAC authentication against an external Radius server while using 802.1X. This feature will help the L2 devices to authenticate via external Radius servers."
"Needs improvement in point-to-point deployment products."
"An area for improvement in Aruba Wireless is creating a DMZ. Without Aruba ClearPass, you need to allow guess access directly via the internet, which means you need to implement the security in between, so this is what I'd like Aruba to improve in the product."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 2nd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 38 reviews while Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 139 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AirMagnet Survey writes "It fixes so many problems quickly that we don't regret spending more on high-end tools than most companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, AirCheck G3, iBwave Wi-Fi, Ubiquiti WLAN and Wireshark, whereas Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points.
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