Aruba Access Points Reviews

In the beginning, my company was involved with a small amount of the solution, but for now, we have a lot of customers who use Aruba Access Points.

My company's customers use Aruba Access Points to access the internet and manage their VPN connections. I have experience with a lot of installations of the product in our company's customers' branch offices to help establish VPN connections since there is a need for secure connections in branch offices.

The most valuable features of the solution are that it has a lot of features that other vendors don't have and offers users simplicity of use. Only Aruba Access Points have a lot of features. There has been a lot of growth in everything with the usage of Aruba Central and Aruba Mobility Controller Virtual Appliance.

In our country, security is an issue for my company's customers that prompts them to choose Aruba because the simplicity of use allows them to ensure some security in their environment.

In Aruba Access Points, the security part is an area of concern where improvements are required.

I have been using Aruba Access Points for four years. My company has a partnership with Aruba.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Considering the scalability option provided by the product in a unified Infrastructure, I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten, especially in an environment where pieces of equipment from Aruba are used.

As I am a pre-sales consultant of Aruba, I can recommend it to all industry sizes, but in Croatia, my company deals with small and medium-sized businesses.

I work with the solution's technical support on a daily basis, and I feel they provide a speedy response in a professional manner, which is much better than my previous experience with HPE's delivery engineers. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

Positive

The product's initial setup phase is very simple and very easy to use.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model, and a few are deployed on the cloud.

The company's customers themselves usually carry out the product's installation phase. With some experience in the area of Wi-Fi, you can easily set up the product by yourself.

I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price. I am familiar with the price perspective of the product in my country, and I can say that we are not that much of a rich country.

Though Cisco is significantly better than other products in the market, I believe that my company is better off with Aruba. Cisco is costlier than Aruba.

I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.

We use Aruba Access Points mainly for wireless connection.

Aruba Access Points is an economical solution.

The solution's technical support and the quality of the new releases need to be improved because we have seen a lot of bugs in the solution's new releases.

I have been working with Aruba Access Points for more than five years.

Aruba Access Points is a stable solution for the short term. However, it is not stable in the long term. For example, it won't be stable in an environment where the Wi-Fi needs to be up 24/7 and 365 days.

If I turn on my access points today, I will not face any issues for the next six or seven months. However, after eight to nine months, or after one year, I'll start facing a lot of issues directly connected to what we call maximum tolerable uptime.

The solution's scalability is good. We have one of the largest Wi-Fi infrastructures in terms of the number of access points, and we have never faced any limitations or issues related to capacity or scalability.

I rate Aruba Access Points an eight or nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution's technical support team can fix minor issues. However, when it comes to resolving complicated or complex issues, they either lack expertise, are not routing it through the proper channel, or are not engaging the right people. We are yet to receive solutions for the complex and unique problems we highlighted to them around two years ago.

Neutral

Cisco has an edge over Aruba in terms of stability and support.

We are getting the expected return on investment with Aruba Access Points.

Although not cheap, Aruba Access Points is a reasonably priced solution.

Users should insist on checking the SLAs in an environment where they need to run the solution 24/7 and 365 days without any break, planned maintenance window, or outage window. They should insist on defining strict SLAs right at the beginning of the project for support and resolution. We call it response time and resolution in terms of SLA.

The solution is scalable, easy to deploy, and easy to maintain.

Overall, I rate Aruba Access Points an eight out of ten.

We use Aruba access points for enterprise and guest wireless.

We like the flexibility and the security, and the product is very easy to use.

I am not sure if it is a weakness, but Aruba sometimes redesigns Aruba Central and the web interface, which is sometimes an annoyance because you have to check everything all over again because the settings would have been placed somewhere else in the graphical interface, for example.

I have been using Aruba access points for eight years now.

The product is stable because sometimes security fixes are sent over email.

Everyone at our company uses Aruba access points. The product works for small, medium, and enterprise companies.

I have worked with Cisco, though not Cisco Meraki. I had no problems with that solution. My current company uses Aruba access points. Aruba access points are easier to deploy, and their pricing is on par with competing solutions. Moreover, you have more choices in the "flavors" of access points with Aruba, which is a plus point.

The solution is easy to deploy, and it normally takes three to five days. Of course, it depends on the customer's setup. Some customers need just five access points, while others require 14 switches and 50 access points.

It takes about a year before I get a return on investment because you need to place them. You get a return on investment when it comes to troubleshooting because you don't need to do as much troubleshooting on Aruba Central. If there are 50 sites, you do not need to check all of them. You have a larger return on investment over a longer period because it is easier to manage everything.

Aruba Central is a bit overpriced for some customers. It is expensive because you need to buy the hardware as well as the license. The license includes maintenance and support.

Before choosing Aruba access points, you should seek someone who is qualified or has done an introductory course to be able to use it. You will need to have some idea of how you want to arrange everything. Cisco Meraki has an introductory course, though I don't know if Aruba Central has one.

Though Aruba access points are priced the same as competitors, they should have discounts for more devices. If you have five devices, you pay the amount for five devices, but if you have 100 devices, it starts to get expensive.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We have deployed the solution for our customers in multiple distribution centers and warehouses.

The product has good coverage. MAC address control and AD integration are valuable features.

The high-end series gives better coverage, but we have to spend more on it. The tool could be cheaper.

I have been using the solution for ten years.

I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten. Our customers are small, medium, and large enterprises.

The initial setup is not easy, but it is not difficult. Since we’ve been doing it for a long time, we know how to do the deployment. I rate the ease of setup a seven or eight out of ten. We can connect the access ID and access points and get it done. Most of the time, the deployment is done on-premise. It is controller-based. The deployment could be done in hours, depending on the quantity. We take a day to deploy ten access points.

My clients see an ROI on the solution. Most of our Aruba customers do not switch to other vendors. They prefer Aruba.

I rate the pricing a seven out of ten. If I get a good discount, I can make a good margin.

Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

I like the solution because of its throughput and low latency. It has resolved roaming issues for my customers. 

The delivery timeline is a major problem. There are also configuration and integration issues since not many engineers are available in the market who has expertise with the product. Some of our customers also experience network slowness. 

I have been working with the product for nine years. 

Aruba Access Points is stable but has some minor issues. 

The solution is easy to scale. If customers roll out a project then they can add it immediately in a fraction of a second. 

I also work with Dell but find Aruba Access Points to be better. Aruba is better in terms of technology and performance. 

The product's setup is not so easy since you cannot get many engineers in the market who can do the tool's installation. Developing an engineer is a costly affair for us. The time taken to complete the installation depends on the infrastructure. If the infrastructure is moderate then installation takes a week's time to complete. If it's a big campus, then installation can take one month. 

We require only four engineers if the area to deploy is 20,000 square feet. However, if the campus is big then we would need eight to ten engineers. Mounting the solution will take time but the rest of the things can be handled remotely. 

We would require one to two engineers to maintain the solution if the deployed area is 20,000 square feet. 

The solution is expensive and licensing costs are yearly. Customers have to pay extra costs for service and subscription apart from the hardware cost. 

I would rate Aruba Access Points a nine out of ten. We work mostly with enterprise customers but we also have medium and small customers as well. 

The most valuable features of Aruba Access Points are the proportionate workload distribution and the easy-to-use interface for management.

The product is highly priced. They could improve pricing. 

We previously used TP-Link and UniFi, and now we use Aruba.

The initial setup is easy. Ten experts in our organization maintain the product on the maintenance side, including servers, infrastructure, network, switches, wireless servers, virtual servers, Linux, Windows servers, and databases.

I rate the process a nine out of ten.

The product is more expensive than TP-Link and UniFi. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten.

In the engineering company, they had a huge file, around two terabytes. After we installed the Aruba switches, the work became faster because the network speed improved. It has impacted the overall productivity by about 40%.

The web interface configuration, whether VLANs or SSIDs, is simple to manage. It integrates well with the existing network infrastructure.

I rate Aruba Access Points an eight out of ten.

Aruba Access Points is an easy-to-use solution. We use Aruba Access Points to implement the Aruba Wi-Fi solution for manufacturing.

The solution's lead time is very slow and should be improved.

I have been using Aruba Access Points for two years.

I rate Aruba Access Points an eight out of ten for stability.

Aruba Access Points is a scalable solution. Two clients are using Aruba Access Points.

The solution’s technical support is good.

We have seen a return on investment with Aruba Access Points.

Users have to pay a licensing fee for Aruba Access Points, which could be cheaper.

We raised a PO to the Aruba agent and installed the device for our customer. Two technical staff and one manager are needed to deploy and maintain the solution.

I would recommend Aruba Access Points to other users.

Overall, I rate Aruba Access Points ten out of ten.

We use the product for user access, guest access, equipment maintenance, and supporting IoT devices.

Aruba Access Points’ most valuable features are network mobility and reliability for network access.

The platform’s speed for data flow could be better. There needs to be flexibility for installation and mounting access points. Additionally, the controller tool should work efficiently for troubleshooting purposes during maintenance.

We have been using Aruba Access Points for two years.

Sometimes, the power stability of PoE switches keeps rebooting continuously. It could be improved.

We have more than 1000 Aruba Access Points users in our organization. It is a scalable product.

The product’s installation process is easy. We use heat maps to find stability to access the network for high-flexibility areas. It takes an hour to complete the process.

Sometimes, I take help from a third-party vendor for the implementation.

The product's pricing could be better than Cisco.

I recommend Aruba Access Points to others and rate it a five out of ten.