Aruba Instant Reviews

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

The most valuable features of the solution are in the areas like routing and VLAN.

Aruba Instant does not currently offer a multi-gig switch or product, making it an area that requires improvement. Aruba Instant's competitors have multi-gig switches or products.

I have been using Aruba Instant for more than ten years. My company is a reseller of Aruba, Cisco, Ruckus, and NETGEAR.

I recommend the product for SMBs.

The tool's ZTP feature has had little impact on our company's customers' operations. My company hasn't used the tool's ZTP feature.

I am satisfied with the product in general.

I recommend the tool to others.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

We use the solution in our regional offices.

The solution is useful for costing purposes. The product is easy to configure. We do not need a controller to have a complete network setup.

Some features like DHCP that were available in the original Aruba controller are not available in Aruba Instant. The tool needs to enhance its security features.

I have been using the solution for more than three years.

The product is stable.

The solution is scalable. We have 1000 to 1500 users in our organization.

I have had no problem with the support team so far. The team always responds on time if we raise any request or ticket.

The initial setup is very easy. Deploying ten to twenty access points will take an hour or less than an hour.

I am an engineer. I can install the solution. To deploy the tool, we must connect with the Wi-Fi, do the default setups, and assign it to Aruba controllers. We can adapt from the controller for the rest of the access points. We need five people to deploy and maintain the solution.

There’s no licensing required to use the tool. We have to renew the maintenance agreement, though.

Even new users or IT personnel can easily manage the deployment of the solution. There are no hassles regarding billing configuration or Wi-Fi signaling. Aruba Instant’s Virtual Controller is very helpful and easy to manage. Overall, I rate the tool seven out of ten.

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.

The most valuable feature of Aruba Instant is its cloud capability, which allows us to manage it through the cloud. All management payloads can be accessed from anywhere, even through our hand-held devices when our IT person is traveling somewhere. When it comes to Aruba Instant, we are getting a more secure and stable solution on a minimum budget.

It would be better if Aruba Instant could provide more security for customers.

It would be better if Aruba Instant could provide a graphical prioritization of application data or application bandwidth.

I have been working with Aruba Instant since its launch, especially in my region.

Compared with the normal Aruba series, Aruba Instant provides easy deployment and a wide range of coverage. However, there is some latency issue when accessing high latency applications like SAP, SAP HANA, and the Aruba Wi-Fi network.

Aruba Instant is a scalable solution.

To deploy Aruba Instant, we first have to create our portal or customer portal and then deploy APs or profiles in the central or cloud console. Discovering APs might take some time, especially from a remote site.

In my region right now, Aruba Instant comes with a default two-year cloud access license. From the third year, we have to renew the solution.

It is not at all difficult to maintain Aruba Instant. I always suggest Aruba Instant, which comes with a three-year subscription or licensing features, because most government customers require a minimum three years upfront license and warranty for all their procurements.

Overall, I rate Aruba Instant a ten out of ten.

We deploy Aruba Instant for customers on a project basis. 

The network planner could be improved. You should be able to import a floor plan, and the application should suggest the optimal placement of your devices. 

I've used Aruba Instant for the last couple of years.

We mostly use Aruba for medium-sized companies, but it could work at the enterprise level. 

I've worked with other products, but I prefer Aruba because of its cost and simplicity. 

Aruba Instant is effortless to set up. That's one reason we use it. It isn't complicated at all. 

Aruba Instant is slightly cheaper than other solutions in the same category. 

I rate Aruba Instant nine out of 10. I recommend planning before you deploy Aruba to map out the ideal location for all your devices. 

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

Aruba Instant's best feature is the ability to manage it in the cloud.

Aruba Instant's visibility, firewalling, L3 functionality, and DHCP services could all be improved.

I've been using Aruba Instant for two years.

Because Aruba Instant is cloud-only, it doesn't work if the internet goes down. When this happens, the device reboots and loses the local configuration, which means the LAN goes down.

Aruba Instant has limited scalability, with a recommended maximum of 100 users.

Aruba's support is good, and we've had no issues with it.

The initial setup was straightforward and easy to manage, even through mobile.

Aruba Instant is a free subscription with a limited lifetime warranty.

I would recommend Aruba Instant for small businesses but not for enterprise. I would give it a rating of eight out of ten.

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

The most valuable features of Aruba Instant are management and performance.

Aruba Instant can improve by increasing the gigabit range of the switch or by adding additional management features and tools. It can be helpful.

In a future release, there could be some improvements in the dashboards. At this time dashboards are only available with a wizard.

I have used Aruba Instant within the last 12 months.

I have found Aruba Instant to be stable.

Aruba Instant is scalable.

Technical support is perfectly fine because we have an in-house team that is comfortable with Aruba Instant. As for Aruba Instant technical support, it is perfect.

I have previously used other solutions, such as SEIM and Cisco. I have found the features in Aruba Instant to be better than in SEIM or Cisco. 

Aruba Instant installation was simple.

Some aspect of the price of Aruba Instant is very economical because if the customer is requiring more features the customer needs to pay a higher amount.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Aruba Instant a nine out of ten.

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.

The quick setup and the automatic code embedded in one access point is really useful.

The product could be improved by having the ability to support more access points in one cluster. I would also suggest that the multicast be more efficient.

Improved managing of the multicast could be included in the next release. It's an issue that can sometimes be challenging.

I've been using the product for two years. 

It's a very stable solution. 

It's not the best product for scalability because there's a limit. We use it mainly for small installations. We do use the product on a daily basis and there are maybe 30-40 people using it. 

Aruba provides good technical support. 

We previously used Ruckus Unleashed and switched because in some areas of Europe they prefer Aruba and customers request the product.

Initial setup is quite straightforward, it usually takes about two hours. We have a team that deploy on site and about 20 people working in IT support. 

I would rate this product a seven out of 10. 

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.  

I think Aruba Instant Management is really pretty flexible because of the versatility of the configuration and it just works very well for our purposes.  

The management interface in Aruba Instant Management is Aruba AirWave. In my opinion, it is not very user-friendly. This is not a criticism of the Aruba Products overall. In fact they work very well. I am referring specifically to Aruba Airwave — just that one component within the solution. If Aruba would do something with this to make this interface better, the product would be much improved.  

Other than that I have no idea what the product would need. I have everything that I need functionally, so I can not think of a missing feature.  

We have been using the product for four years.  

The product is very stable. We have no problems with that area of usage.  

I believe Instant Management is easy to scale. However, we do not use it on large scale environments so I cannot give you a very accurate opinion of that aspect of its use. We use it in very small setups. I do not have first-hand experience with how it works if you extend to a larger scale.  

As far as how extensively Aruba Instant is being used, we could be using it daily. It is operational 24-hours a day — that is for sure. It is stable and it works fine. But in management, we sometimes use it only once a week.  

We have three users in management to take care of the system if it needs attention. But that is management only. There are more users who are actually on the wireless, of course.  

We have not had the need to contact Aruba technical support but that could be a good sign.  

Aruba is the first product that had the capabilities that we were interested in so we did not use another product previous to this one for this purpose.  

The initial setup is pretty complex. We were able to set it up by ourselves without the help of consultants or vendors but it took some time to get it done. I think the first set up took about two days which is longer than we had hoped.  

My advice to people considering this solution is that Aruba Instant Management is a very good group of products and it is very stable. Be aware that there is quite a learning curve for the AirWave management platform.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Aruba Instant Management as an eight-out-of-ten. It is not a nine or a ten because of the problem with the user-friendliness of the AirWave management platform. The products offer a lot of flexibility. Almost everything can be configured. There is only a problem with the one component that causes it to be difficult to understand and difficult to set up and get working for the first time. It detracts from the usability of the product and how quickly it can be deployed.