Ekahau Site Survey vs RedSeal vs iBwave Wi-Fi comparison

"I like that our users can send us a floor map. Sometimes it's not feasible to travel to another country where the users are based. So, the floor map is very useful. It's a fantastic product."

"The ability to perform dual-band spectrum analysis while conducting the standard WiFi site survey is a tremendous time saver."

"Channel planning, access points' auto position, and the size of the spectrum are valuable to me."

"Ekahau Site Survey is an easy and accurate solution."

"The most valuable feature of Ekahau Site Survey is the predictive survey."

"The most valuable function is the site survey capability."

"The spectrum analysis capability is very good. It provides deep insights into the Wi-Fi environment. It's not just about troubleshooting interference but also optimizing access points and modifying power levels and channels."

"Ekahau lets you create heat maps without doing the initial survey. It makes the task easier."

"Compared to other tools, iBwave Wi-Fi provides 95% accuracy and generates heatmaps."

"I find the high-quality Heatmap generation, multi-floor, and wire mapping features to be most valuable."

"The solution's 3D imaging is amazing."

"The 3D Coverage is a good feature that shows the signal propagation in three dimensions."

"iBwave Wi-Fi's tech support is great. They pick up their phones. I have no complaints."

"It can speed up design."

"The most valuable features of iBwave Wi-Fi include the critical three dimensional modeling capabilities, which are necessary for tasks like locating access points, determining their height, and cable routing."

"The stability and feature set of the application are top notch and can't be matched."

"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."

"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."

"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."

"Ekahau would benefit by making improvements to lag time."

"It would be better if it provided clear visibility. It would be better if it accommodated large physical sites like a warehouse with a ceiling height of more than twelve to fifteen feet. In such situations, we were unable to provide better coverage."

"I find the power button hard to access with just one hand."

"Our CTO was not real happy with their support."

"We were actually able to recover some access points in some areas that were over saturated. So I I can leave at least two areas where we probably had twice as many access points as we needed to. So we actually redesigned it and pulled some of those access points where I don't know that there was any proper planning done when they were initially deployed. It was before my time, but it just seemed way over saturated, and they were all beaten on each other. So Site wasn't helping. It was probably hurting, and we saved equipment that we could then deploy somewhere else. This can be improved."

"The new Sidekick is going to support Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E."

"Ekahau Site Survey is an expensive solution, and its pricing should be improved."

"I am having problems importing maps to Ekahau Site Survey. Importing is one of the first steps in using the solution and it is getting stuck. The problem could be that our maps are large with many layers."

"It would be good if we could involve a visual while designing the backhaul."

"The cost of the solution could be improved. It's extraordinarily expensive."

"iBwave Wi-Fi could be improved by adding a plot for overall improvement, allowing us to see where we are failing in design parameters, similar to features in Ekahau."

"iBwave Wi-Fi doesn't have a distributor feed platform."

"Areas of improvement would include more functionality in the Mobile App, expanded reporting features, and some shortcut features."

"It would do iBwave well to become more involved with their clients."

"I would like to be able to see two buildings at the same time so that you can create a campus view."

"I am currently looking for an alternative due to my reluctance with the reliability of this product."

"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."

"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."

"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."

"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."

"The product is quite expensive."

"The solution is priced fairly for the features that you receive."

"We pay a licensing fee."

"The solution is less costly than one of its competitors."

"The pricing could be lower because the Huawei radial planning is free for the partner. When I asked my boss about buying Ekahau and the USB key, it was complicated because of the high cost, which is €5,000."

"The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it"

"The pricing is high."

"9,000 Euro per year."

"iBwave Wi-Fi is an expensive solution, but it is worth the cost."

"The solution's pricing is cheap."

"I advise others to treat the cost as you would any tooling cost and use the monthly option as needed."

"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."