Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar offers scalability, centralization, and redundancy enabling robust management. Users appreciate the Captive Portal, Spectrum Monitor, and CLI alongside advanced features like AAA with Radius, QoS, and built-in site-survey tools. Its software-defined controller surpasses hardware alternatives, providing ease and quality. It excels in BYOD integration, offers cost-effective deployment, seamless VLAN mapping with ALE switches, perpetual OmniVista licenses, straightforward setup, and architectural distribution, outperforming competitors like Cisco in user capacity, performance, and pricing.
- "The features aren't much different than those in Aruba, but deployment is easier to configure and the pricing is better."
- "We can manage all of the access points and policies from a single pane of glass."
- "The solution is scalable, as it works for any size of company, no matter if it's a small business, enterprise, government, education, hospitality, or any other type of customer, and it's easy to scale as a soft controller by just adding licenses, supporting up to 4,000 access points."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar requires enhancements in configuration simplification and maintenance software OmniVista 3600. Improvements are needed for GUI speed, packet processing, and Mac/iOS access. Integration with third-party systems and support for multi-vendor interoperability are lacking. Guest network setup is complex and requires more automation. The radio management side needs advancements for large deployments. Integrated features like heat maps and better third-party software compatibility are requested, along with a preference for on-premises hardware architecture.
- "Sometimes, we're not able to meet the complex requirement with Stellar."
- "Better integration with third-party systems is what our customers are expecting in the future."
- "The solution needs to improve access for Mac and iOS devices."
