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Aruba Instant Primary Use Case

SreejeshSoman - PeerSpot reviewer
SreejeshSoman
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The usual use case for Aruba Instant is that it's a mid-market product, where a customer who seeks a cloud-managed solution within budget can extend up to maybe 100 APs in a single domain or single site by opting for Instant On solutions.

For Aruba Instant On, it has its own cloud platform to manage Aruba APs, and other than that, we also propose AWS and Google Cloud platform to the customers.

Aruba Instant is scalable up to a certain number of devices per site, but it's not recommended for enterprise customers with more than 300 or 500 users in a single site; however, it's scalable for startups or mid-market companies with below 500 users or who are not expecting that many users in the next five years, making Instant On the best solution.

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Pranjal Borthakur
Director and Co-Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

use this for Ware house management, and Office wireless LAN network

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Aruba Instant
December 2025
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SanketWalekar
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

There are setups where instant switches will be present, mostly around two or three, and as part of the same setup, five to ten APs will be there; this setup needs to be implemented in one of the environments of our company's customers using Aruba Instant.

The customers of our organization might also have multiple PSKs and additional radius in their internet, so as part of the company, we need to integrate Aruba Instant accordingly, and especially for any personal SSID, it needs to operate through Aruba Instant. 

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Maulik-Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Maulik-Shah
Technical Service Owner (Network and Telephony) at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the tool everywhere for WiFi. 

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Trevor Fernandes - PeerSpot reviewer
Trevor Fernandes
Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use Aruba Instant as our access point for various purposes, including data, and throughout the office. As we expand, we plan to implement it in our warehouse for connectivity.

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Alessandro Salvadori - PeerSpot reviewer
Alessandro Salvadori
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We usually sell Aruba Instant where there is no need for more than four or five switches. It is generally recommended for very small companies where we don't need more than three or four switches.

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Mahesh Sankhe
Project Manager at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We are a system integrator. Aruba is a very reliable solution, and I've been working with Aruba products for more than five years. It started with Aruba wireless solutions, like the 135 series, 203H Series, 203R Series, 300 series, and now Aruba 8. 

The coverage is excellent, and it's very well developed with high customer satisfaction.

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Prashant-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Prashant-Patel
Senior Presales Consultant - Networking Solutions at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

We use the product in a very small setup where the customers require 10 to 20 access points. A controller will not be suitable for such a customer. So, we provide them with a solution without a controller.

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Anchal Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Anchal Verma
Chief Executive Officer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It's a networking product for switching and Wi-Fi.

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Subhashis Sahoo
Senior Solution Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution is used for guest user login for wireless, secure connectivity for internal and guest users, and user experience.

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MENACHEM NUSSEN - PeerSpot reviewer
MENACHEM NUSSEN
Senior Network Specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

For us, it was a way of getting in the door without having to buy a controller. I used Aruba Instant with a bunch of schools.

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Mal Hadi
Head of IT at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We primarily use the solution for surfing and browsing. Students would use it for social media. Professionals might use it for video calling or video conferencing as well. These would be the cases.

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FranklinSanguina - PeerSpot reviewer
FranklinSanguina
Solutions Consultant at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

I primarily use the solution for my WiFi.

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Hachem Yassine
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We primarily use the solution for connecting to our WiFi network. We use it to communicate with our internal network. It connects everything - telephones, tablets, et cetera. It's our company network.

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Jigar Kapadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jigar Kapadi
Manager, Information Technology Network & Firewall at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use the solution for managing switches remotely.

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Sergey Mikhaylov
System engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 201-500 employees

In my company, we use Aruba Instant since it is a very light product for installations, and it provides summaries, making it a good choice for customers.

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Bjorn Bell - PeerSpot reviewer
Bjorn Bell
Information Technology Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's just the perks that we get with everything in terms of the equipment, such as client tracking and GPS coverage. There's a whole lot of perks to Aruba.

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Xavier Gillon - PeerSpot reviewer
Xavier Gillon
Director Of Information Systems and Technology at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

I'm the director of information technology at a school and we use this solution for our Wifi. We are customers of Aruba.

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reviewer1734498 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1734498
Senior Consultant Network at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We propose it to our customers for Wireless LAN. Internally, in our company, we use Cisco. 

We have many customers, and we implement wireless systems with Aruba, Cisco, and Extreme. There are many customers that use Instant Cluster, and we have customers that use it on-premise. It depends on the people working at the customer side. 

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Dmitry Spomza
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We use Aruba Instant for sending logins to Aruba AirWave. We also use Aruba Instant with Aruba Mobility Controller for access points, particularly over one hundred access points.

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Sergey Astakhov
Teacher at a university with 10,001+ employees

The product is used for user segmentation, server segmentation, WiFi segmentation, and printer server segmentation.

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Luca Brunetta - PeerSpot reviewer
Luca Brunetta
Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for our wireless network.

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Marija Lakić - PeerSpot reviewer
Marija Lakić
Sistem Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company has about 25 access points, and they integrate Aruba Instant. We have authentication integrated with Windows in the main controller for each employee. We also have a guest net portal.

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Wilson Salas - PeerSpot reviewer
Wilson Salas
Arquitecto de Infraestructura y Networking at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I designed a data center for a client, and we used Aruba to develop all the solutions. 

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TarasPoprawa - PeerSpot reviewer
TarasPoprawa
IT Consultant - co-owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our clients use it as a Wi-Fi access point.

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Naveen A - PeerSpot reviewer
Naveen A
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We prefer to use this solution for smaller organizations.

For private customers, generally we prefer a private cloud. If it's a government-based company, like central government and government-based companies, they prefer on-prem.

There are six people using this solution in our environment.

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ThomasLee1 - PeerSpot reviewer
ThomasLee1
Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use the solution in my company's manufacturing area.

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Jusip Rumulo
Network engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution in our regional offices.

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SreejeshSoman - PeerSpot reviewer
SreejeshSoman
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

One of my government customers has multiple offices across the city, while their IT team is stationed in their central office. So we positioned Aruba wireless solutions across all their offices, and their IT team was able to access and operate APs from their central office.

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Bala Chandran
IT Solutions Consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

We deploy Aruba Instant for customers on a project basis. 

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JEGAN N - PeerSpot reviewer
JEGAN N
Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I primarily use Aruba Instant to deploy the wireless end in smaller offices.

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it_user1333905 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1333905
Sr. Manager-Sales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We use a mixture of deployment models. Sometimes it's hybrid, on-premise, or on the cloud.

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reviewer1275345 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1275345
Head of Network Engineering at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case is for deploying the product in hotels, usually a small deployment where an external controller is not required. Aruba provides a cheap and good solution.

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reviewer1273287 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1273287
Network Administrator Telecom at a maritime company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Aruba Instant Access Points — one of the components of Instant Manager — to deploy wireless services to the ships that are running on the coast of Antwerp. This would be tug boats and other vessels in shipping that need communications capabilities.  

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it_user1266678 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1266678
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We've used the solution for a project with a small hotel. We primarily used the solution for five access points. We use it for wifi access around the rooms.

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it_user1268493 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1268493
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case is for basic Wi-Fi and also for the captive portal authentication with 802.1X MAC.

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reviewer895482 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer895482
ICT Officer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

We primarily use the solution in the business environment for the office network.

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UsaidRashid
Deputy Manager - Technical Services ICT-ELV at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution as a base for our site office. 

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John JnrSawana
Apple Technician at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case of this solution is to control our networks.

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Zülfikar Erdem - PeerSpot reviewer
Zülfikar Erdem
IT Support Specialist at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution for our wireless network.

All of our wireless devices are on the Aruba network.

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it_user837531 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user837531
Works at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Primary use is to provide WLAN access for our managed clients networks; from 10-user offices, to wireless networks supporting 500 or more wireless clients with up to 30 wireless APs on a single layer 2 network.

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reviewer1235277 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1235277
Network Product Manager/ Senior Presales engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution as an SMB. Cafe's, small offices, restaurants, etc. are able to use Aruba Instant for wireless connection.

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Aslam Khabou
Systems and support engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I use Aruba Instant for Wireless LAN and CCTV solutions.

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Buyer's Guide
Aruba Instant
December 2025
Learn what your peers think about Aruba Instant. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
879,310 professionals have used our research since 2012.