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Aruba Airwave vs DX Spectrum comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Aruba Airwave significantly boosts ROI by enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing engineer time from 60 to 15-20 minutes.
Sentiment score
7.1
DX Spectrum users see 100% ROI with automation enhancing data accuracy, reducing labor costs, and improving infrastructure monitoring.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Aruba Airwave support is reliable with strong ratings, though slower escalation compared to Cisco is noted by some users.
Sentiment score
7.1
DX Spectrum's customer service is highly rated, but technical support experiences vary, with delays post-Broadcom acquisition.
Angie was very kind and communicated well in both Spanish and English, making it pleasant to connect with her.
Broadcom technical support is very good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Aruba Airwave is scalable and adaptable, supporting medium to enterprise businesses with adjustable resources for varying infrastructures.
Sentiment score
8.1
DX Spectrum is praised for its scalability, integrating easily into large infrastructures with minimal adjustments needed for expansion.
Aruba Airwave is fully scalable, as we have a large number of tenants using the network with approximately six thousand end users.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Aruba Airwave is highly rated for stability, reliability, and integration, though minor performance issues occur in crowded environments.
Sentiment score
7.3
DX Spectrum is praised for stability, with minor issues often due to configurations, effectively supported for solutions.
I have found Aruba Airwave to be stable.
 

Room For Improvement

Aruba Airwave needs improved GUI stability, integration, and cost-effectiveness, with better scalability, support, and device compatibility to meet customer demands.
DX Spectrum users seek HTML5 transition, better integration, improved event management, and simpler deployment, citing cost concerns versus competitors.
When upgrading hardware, there were technical issues with network interfaces and Red Hat, which required escalation to developers.
When attempting to copy a floor plan, it does not copy well, so I often have to redraw the walls.
Currently, they appear as pop-up messages, but I would prefer having alarm messages shown as a scrolling bar at the taskbar for easier visibility.
The event management should have more deduplication and alert correlation and check the bidirectional communication with ServiceNow.
 

Setup Cost

Aruba Airwave offers flexible yet complex pricing, cost-effective compared to competitors, with trials to evaluate features and manageability.
DX Spectrum is costly for small-to-medium businesses, though flexible and negotiable for enterprises; Broadcom's acquisition increased complexity.
The price of DX Spectrum is not competitive when compared to other solutions, such as SolarWinds.
 

Valuable Features

Aruba Airwave provides comprehensive multivendor network management with real-time monitoring, orchestration, troubleshooting, and robust reporting features.
DX Spectrum provides comprehensive network management with topology views, automation, and multi-vendor support, enhanced by a user-friendly interface.
It provides near real-time monitoring using AIMON and AURO protocols, which is robust with multiple models and brand support.
Aruba Airwave provides good visibility, offering extensive data on network dynamics, such as access point connections, usage, signal strengths, and potential interference from neighboring Wi-Fi networks.
It is more about troubleshooting and checking the coverage problems of wireless.
The interface has the needed configuration for visualization, and it's effective in providing a complete diagram of network links and connections across various stations globally.
DX Spectrum uses an SNMP Trap to accept all the details, especially for device monitoring of faulty devices, allowing me to use Spectrum effectively.
 

Categories and Ranking

Aruba Airwave
Ranking in Network Management Applications
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
DX Spectrum
Ranking in Network Management Applications
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (21st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (20th), Network Troubleshooting (6th), DX NetOps (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Management Applications category, the mindshare of Aruba Airwave is 6.6%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DX Spectrum is 2.5%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Management Applications
 

Featured Reviews

Prashant-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management
Aruba Airwave is an on-prem solution, so you have to manage it with your servers to be deployed. You can also deploy it on the cloud if you have your own private cloud. All the configuration guides and the different types of designs you need are available from Aruba Airwave's portal. I would recommend Aruba Airwave to other users. Overall, I rate Aruba Airwave ten out of ten.
Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Good for monitoring, covers networks well
If you are looking for the right monitoring tool, Spectrum is one of the best solutions. It covers networks very well. It has all the capabilities that you're looking for when it comes to monitoring. Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing. If you have a CA Service Desk, then it can be integrated so that if you have open tickets they can be closed automatically. The configuration manager is great as well.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
9%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Aruba Airwave?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What needs improvement with Aruba Airwave?
When attempting to copy a floor plan, it does not copy well, so I often have to redraw the walls. It's somewhat annoying since other Wi-Fi design software we use is easier for drawing walls and inc...
What do you like most about DX Spectrum?
The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Spectrum?
We are a customer of Broadcom, we use a group license that covers various CA products, including DX Spectrum. The company purchases the licenses they need from this group license, and we do not hav...
What needs improvement with DX Spectrum?
DX Spectrum should have an automatic ticketing mechanism with ServiceNow. I need to use other tools for event management. It has a dashboarding mechanism and monitors devices and network switches t...
 

Also Known As

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CA Spectrum
 

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Sample Customers

Henkel, University of Findlay, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Iowa
National Informatics Centre India, Banese, Olympus, AlphaServe Technologies, Sicredi
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