Aruba Airwave vs Cisco Prime [EOL] comparison

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

"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."

"All the technical support goes through our contractor. It is a local support, and it is perfect."

"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."

"One of the main advantages is its ability to draw building floor plans and analyze Wi-Fi signal behavior in real-time."

"The most valuable features are the error log and intrusion log. It also provides an overview of your assets. It gives a good database for wireless coverage."

"The most beneficial feature for network monitoring in Aruba Airwave is the Live Heat Map. It helps identify interferences, coverage issues, and user connectivity issues. The device management capability of Aruba Airwave is good. It provides end-to-end visibility from the user to the access point, the switch, and the internet breakout. From a monitoring, management, and orchestration standpoint, it is very effective and can manage any scale of deployment."

"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.​​"

"Cisco Prime is a good tool for inventory monitoring and wireless management."

"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."

"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."

"I have found the solution to be scalable."

"The technical support team is very good."

"The VLAN mapping function has been most impactful in simplifying our network management tasks."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."

"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."

"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."

"Its pricing and support could be improved."

"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."

"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."

"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."

"The main challenge we've faced with Aruba Airwave is its high cost, especially regarding high availability and failover licenses, which can be relatively expensive for customers. As for recommendations for improvement, considering that Aruba is planning to retire Airwave soon and introduce a new solution, it's crucial that the new product meets or exceeds the current Airwave's feature set. Customers expect a seamless transition without losing any functionality, so Aruba needs to ensure that the new solution is ready with all the essential features and capabilities from day one to avoid any gaps or dissatisfaction among users and partners."

"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."

"I would try to integrate more products from different vendors in future releases. Because that's really good features that Aruba Airway has, but it's so limited."

"The solution has issues with real time monitoring of devices and NetFlow such as inadequate visualization for reports, sources, and destinations."

"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."

"Cisco Prime needs to have lower prices and more customization options."

"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."

"Cisco Prime could improve the graphical user interface."

"Lacking in integration with a SIEM tool."

"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."

"We must buy a new license to connect more devices to scale up the solution."

"It is an expensive solution."

"This product is not expensive."

"The tool is expensive. If one is bad or expensive, and ten is very good or cheap, I rate the product's price as a six."

"AirWave is a very expensive solution. If you implement it in a wide range network, it will cost a lot. There is no option to sell it outside that price segment, which is a problem."

"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."

"The licensing is on an yearly basis."

"The cost is perfect because the devices have a lifetime warranty, and the licensing is good as well."

"We update the license every five years."

"The cost is quite high."

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"If we have a license for Cisco DNA, we can use the same license for Cisco Prime."

"The solution is not inexpensive but is worth it for large-scale environments."