We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant and Ruckus Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Wireless LAN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"The solution is very secure."
"The simplicity is great."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Marvis, the AI-driven network management system."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Captive Portal, which we employ for our guest network. It enables us to create a separate virtual subnet for guests, ensuring their network traffic remains isolated from our office network. Another valuable feature is its role-based access control. This functionality allows us to assign different access privileges to users based on their roles within the organization."
"In terms of stability, Aruba Instant is the best on the market."
"Works automatically in terms of setup with the product finding its master wifi access point."
"The features I have found most valuable is that the solution creates a guest portal for guest networks, and setting up SSID authentication to the regular server."
"The deployment is easy."
"I've worked with other products, but I prefer Aruba because of its cost and simplicity."
"This is a very solid product. It is very powerful."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Instant is its cloud capability, which allows us to manage it through the cloud."
"Very reliable."
"It's reliable wireless equipment."
"The setup is very straightforward."
"There is better security on our internal SSID/VLAN due to the use of Zero-IT."
"One of the most valuable features I appreciate is auto channelization, facilitated by a proprietary product called ChannelFly."
"Because of Zero-IT, it is easier to get people connected to the correct SSID without providing a passphrase."
"The product is extremely easy to manage after it is implemented."
"The biggest advantages of Ruckus Wireless are pricing and support."
"The solution is expensive."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"Aruba Instant can improve by increasing the gigabit range of the switch or by adding additional management features and tools. It can be helpful."
"If you need to access the master access point the integration between the two becomes quite expensive."
"Doesn't support enough access points in one cluster."
"It uses a different portal and has limitations from the customer side as it's not refined for MSP."
"The support offered by Aruba is slow."
"There was only ever one case in which an access point failed, but it was reintegrated. The issue was more of a matter of oversight. One part of the network had covered ten access points."
"The solution should be able to support more users on the access points."
"There is a problem in the preferred portal access points when I'm using the portal."
"One complaint that we have is the lack of cloud-based management."
"The price could be improved."
"Its security can be improved. It doesn't use Wireless IPS. Therefore, we have to combine WatchGuard that uses a Wireless IPS but is a separate solution. These two solutions work in conjunction. We are using the WatchGuard as a sensor and Wireless IPS, and Ruckus is like a platform that is used for the connectivity of the network."
"I would like to see this product made a little more economical because it's very expensive."
"The pricing of the product can be a bit expensive. They should work on making pricing more competitive."
"The solution needs to have some sort of security offering, like a firewall, for example."
"If the system could directly download and update, that would be much easier. It could be more automated."
"It could be more stable."
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Aruba Instant is ranked 6th in Wireless LAN with 44 reviews while Ruckus Wireless is ranked 3rd in Wireless LAN with 98 reviews. Aruba Instant is rated 8.6, while Ruckus Wireless is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant writes "A highly stable and easy-to-deploy solution that is free and provides excellent deployment guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ruckus Wireless writes "Great wireless, good reliability, and excellent connectivity". Aruba Instant is most compared with Omada Access Points, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Aruba Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Cisco Wireless, whereas Ruckus Wireless is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and NETGEAR Insight Access Points. See our Aruba Instant vs. Ruckus Wireless report.
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