Aruba Switches Primary Use Case
Aneesh K
IT Solution Analyst II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Aruba Switches are being used for the campus network requirement, specifically at the access layer as well as the aggregation layer. They are not currently being used for the data center or for the DMZ.
For the access switch use case, Aruba Switches remain a good choice. However, they are not being used in the data center or DMZ environments, so I am uncertain about how well they perform in those spaces.
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Charl Cronje
CTO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is well suited for any business, really. For my company, it's easier to use because our warranty structure in South Africa is much better. That's basically the only reason why we use Aruba instead of Cisco. Cisco is more expensive, and while Aruba is still expensive, it's not as costly in our region. If they don't pay attention to their pricing, they might lose to Huawei.
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Theesula Majuwanagamage
Head Of ELV and ICT at a construction company with 51-200 employees
I use Aruba Switches in Sri Lanka for their flexibility and reliability. The switches are affordable and have a warranty and compatibility with various solutions. They are suitable for both SMB and enterprise levels.
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December 2025
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Alessandro Salvadori
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are using Aruba Switches ourselves, and we also install them for final customers.
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Imran-Shahid
IT Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 201-500 employees
Our main use cases for Aruba Switches are in our retail business. We have stores in different malls, such as the fashion business in Dubai Mall, Emirates Mall, and all the big malls in the GCC countries. We are using Aruba Switches and the access points for the Wi-Fi network inside the stores.
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Eunice Thirikwa
Chief Executive Officer at a retailer with 11-50 employees
We primarily deploy Aruba Switches in hotels for services such as Wi-Fi, IPTV, telephone, and guest room automation.
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Marco Flores
Technology supervisor at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
I used Aruba Switches to deploy a system in Lima, Peru. I implemented it almost four years ago for a sports facility. It is also used for National Bank.
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ChukwuemekaOnyemelukwe
Infrastructure Administrator - Server, Storage & Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use Aruba Switches primarily as access switches, which are employed to provide network access to users. These switches are part of our existing infrastructure, replacing older models that have become damaged due to aging.
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SunilNair1
AGM - Infrastructure & Information Security at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use Aruba switches, access points, and everything. We're a hospital chain. We've deployed them in at least 78 of our hospitals and are happy with the performance.
Overall, we're satisfied with the performance of our Aruba switches. They're working well for our current needs.
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AmrIssa
Chief Information officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use the tool in my company for our infrastructure's network switches, access points, and the controllers that the product provides.
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Dmitry Spomza
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The primary use cases for Aruba Switches are for campus networks and data center stackable switch solutions.
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Ilangovan Abdullah
Solutions Architect Infrastructure and Security Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the solution in the education, manufacturing, and hospitality industries.
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Sigma.3 - Ashroff
Director, Technical Solutions at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Aruba switches are primarily used as L2 switches, with some used as L3 switches as well. The ProCurve series is most commonly used, rather than the HEC or 192 series. The switches are also used for IPTV and multicast.
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Anjan Basu Chowdhury
Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for connectivity purposes.
If you want to connect your network, you definitely need a switch for end-to-end connectivity. The good thing about Aruba switches nowadays is that these particular switches also can be managed through the cloud. You can manage it through the cloud, you can manage it to NMS, and you can manage it to the individual switch also. You can manage it as a cluster.
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Fizal A
Senior Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We are business partners for various small and medium enterprises. We get requests from customers for an existing network upgrade or a new field requirement. Based on the customer's requirement, we provide solutions from Aruba or whichever the customer wants.
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Alper Umar
Network & Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I work in the hospitality and medical industry.
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Khaled Shaker
Head Of Technical Department at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
Aruba switches are divided into many categories: core, distribution, access, and small switches called Instant On. Small businesses and home users use those. We use 6400 Aruba switches, which are core switches that support the new CX operating system. We also use distribution switches such as the 8300 and category access layers such as the 6100, 6200, and 6300. There are many Aruba category switches in access layers and Instant On switches for small offices, such as Aruba Instant On 1930 and 1960.
We have set up Aruba switches for customers in Egypt's hospitality, and oil and gas industries.
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Umer Uzair
Senior Manger - Solutions Design & Engineering at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We are using it for LAN Switches in our corporate offices with PoE switches and access points. This is primarily a normal LAN switching use case.
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Mukunthan RAJAGOPALAN
Works at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
We primarily use the solution in a hospital setting for switching.
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Alfred_Pullicino
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
We've got switches on-premises, and they're managed by central management.
We primarily use the solution for normal office use. It is for normal networking, including wireless.
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Michael-Sugg
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The Aruba switch is supporting a doctor's office, so it's an on-premise switch. These particular switches provide the fundamental network for the entire office, including power over ethernet for the security cameras and wireless access points. The solution also provides network switching between databases and clients. I manage the switches using the Aruba Central public cloud.
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Mahesh Sankhe
Project Manager at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The most typical use case for Aruba Switches is its reliability and good pricing compared to other solutions like Cisco.
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UweSchmidt
Owner at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I use them myself, and I sell them to my customers.
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BenjaminRafrafi
System and Network Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
We are using Aruba Switches as a distribution switch everywhere in our business for Wi-Fi.
We only have access points connected to the Aruba switches. Aruba Switches are connected to our main infrastructure, but everything else is still on the old infrastructure.
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Wajid Khattak
Procurement Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We use this product for network access, including setting up VLANs.
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Brendin Lewis
Manager ITS at a government with 1-10 employees
We use a suite of core, edge, and top-of-rack switches, and all of them do their jobs. We don't have servers anymore, so the top-of-rack switches don't do much, but the core and edge switches are excellent.
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reviewer956109
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We are really just using Aruba Switches for ourselves. We're not like a service provider, but if you ask me, I will recommend it to my colleagues or friends.
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Patricio Andres Tapia Jahiatt
Deputy Director of IT Operations at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for WiFi and LAN. It's for connectivity.
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Abd Allah Jawish
System engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our clients use Aruba Switches for networking.
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Joshy Varghese
Managing Director at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
We use the solution for our network switches and access points.
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Ayman Said
Infrastructure System's Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The primary use case is in the manufacturing area in our factory and the other places like our warehouses for the stores.
SunilNair
Director of Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
We got Aruba Switches when we wanted something very redundant. I have two core switches, and both of them are configured for fault tolerance. If one fails, the other one will be able to sustain the load of the network.
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Wael-Kamal
IT consultant at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
We use Aruba switches as LAN devices and access points to connect users. We also use the product for VLAN. We don't, however, make security with Aruba switches.
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Suhaib Al-Khatib
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use it mostly for data center switches such as the CX Series 6405 and 6300 as a distribution or TurboRock. We also use it for access switches like the 2000 and 6000 series.
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Eytan Segal
IT - Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using Aruba Switches for clusters.
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Marius Celliers
Managing Director Technology at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use industrial switches called Moxa switches for our Edge devices and our Edge networks. For the backbone, we use Aruba switches because of the throughputs.It's much cheaper to put in an Aruba Switch than putting in a Moxa switch. We use it for CCTV cameras and we have about 150 to 200 cameras on the system.
For each of our clients who use this switch, we assign one of our engineers for maintenance. Our service level agreements determine the type of support they receive and how many of our engineers are needed. One of our engineers handles about four or five clients.
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Tham Cm
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
We use Aruba Switches for our network, basically, we are segmenting into various VLANs, and also we have a routing switch.
HendrikVelloen
Senior Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As a company many of our deployments are focused at the medical industry, we install Aruba network switches to facilitate interconnectivity and network connectivity. This is our primary use case.
We have also installed and deployed into the banking and pharmaceutical sectors.
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Sara Coronel
Senior Consulting and Design Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I work for a government department in Ecuador and we use this product for our projects. We are partners with Aruba.
Marcio Dalvi
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The primary use is for client access and corporate use.
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Adeline Mah
Assistant Manager, Infrastructure And Helpdesk at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using the 6000 and 2005 series.
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Network Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We are using these switches for our office network and site-to-site connectivity.
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Hossam Ismail
Network Team Lead at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have more than 105 switches with different models including 2930, 5412, and 8300 with 3-tier topology.
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Ramesh Benure
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I am working in a solution-based company. Whenever we get the product, we create a template and deploy it on the customer's site.
We deal with different versions of this product based on a customer's requirements. I have deployed three Aruba 320M Series switches. One of our customers is a marketing company, and they used Aruba switches for LAN purposes. They used the 2930 and 3810 series, and we configured them according to their requirements with LAN, lags, trunking port, etc.
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Hossam Ismail
Network Team Lead at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
I use Aruba wired and wireless switches as part of my network infrastructure.
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Security & Infrastructure Architect at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
The 5400 series is a modular chassis-based switch and it allows us to buy parts for different needs, such as 10 gigs, or a one gig ethernet over copper for workstations. It's really our core switch and we actually have a couple of different models.
That's in our headquarters, and then we have some other sites that use Aruba. I think they're the 2600 series or 2700 series, the smaller, modular ones, and stackable ones. Not the chassis-based.
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Infrastructure System's Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The primary use case of this solution is as the edge and the core switches for our company network.
We are working on an ERP system, domain controller, warehouse management, Salesforce automation, and many other applications.
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Aamir Hussain
Senior Network Specialist at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
We use Aruba switches as part of our network infrastructure.
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Aslam Khabou
Systems and support engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution for networking.
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Network Engineer at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
We're a government entity and use Switches for LAN and for pushing up to a router or a firewall. From an infrastructure perspective, we're a medium-sized organization but only have 100 employees. We are customers of Aruba and I'm a network engineer.
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Nawaaz Toonah
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use these switches as part of our network infrastructure. Part of what we do is implement and manage networks for our clients.
Our clients are typically in the manufacturing sector, although we have some in warehouse process management, railway stations, and airports.
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Anil Ergunsah
Managing Partner & Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Aruba Switches can be used for enterprise networks and local networks.
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Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for small and middle sized offices across different locations. The switches connect to the remote sites for distribution to the end user.
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IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We use them for our networks as extensions.
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Chief Information Officer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We are using Aruba switches for our local network infrastructure.
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Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
These are ethernet switches that provide power over the net for our PoE requirements, basically layer two and layer three features that we have. I'm the head of technical support and we are customers of Aruba.
it_user1190679
Network Architect & Pre-Sales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I'm a reseller and I supply these switches to customers.
The use case of this solution is to connect endpoint devices through to the data centers.
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Steven Adema
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is data center networking. We work with a hybrid deployment model. Currently, we are working with the 8325 switches. We have sold the solutions to a lot of our customers.
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Network and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are using Aruba Switches for switching and as a type of pilot.
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Team leader technical support at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We had a need to implement a distributed data center, split over two different sites, which were still more or less in each other's vicinity, less than a kilometer apart. The Aruba CX line products was one of the candidates in review and it was deemed the most logical choice We are customers of Aruba and I'm the team leader of technical support.
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Assistant Manager IT at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I use Aruba switches to provide a stable and comfortable industrial environment.
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Suhaib Al-Khatib
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the product for enterprise solutions. We work in industries such as education (colleges and universities), hospitals, and banking. We are focused on banking right now.
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Dariusz Moszyk
Manager IT at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution for our company, in the office. We use it for its monitoring capabilities.
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Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We use and sell the 800 series switch. We compare the Aruba switches to the comparable Cisco switches as they have a similar feature set. We can sell them primarily because they cost less than Cisco. We use the Virtual Switching Extension feature that Aruba has for better performance and high availability. Aruba switches can be used in small and large businesses.
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Network and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We provide networks with antennae switches and Wi-Fi switches for small to medium-sized businesses for customers in the UAE.
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Networking Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our customer's infrastructure is based on the AKPA solution and we suggested Aruba Switches replace the AKPA Switches.
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IT Director at a government
We primarily use the solution for our IT infrastructure.
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Chief Information officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case of this solution is for access points. You can look at any site and take the static ID, or the real ID. It's similar to VPN.
With the access point, you take the real ID and install it in the controller, you then access the site with this access point.
We are interior designers and we have many showroom sites, we use the Aruba controller. We have twenty-five Aruba Switches with fifteen to twenty access points.
We are using the 205 and 215 series. The bandwidth is 1gHz.
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Hamed Wasel
Sr. Security Network Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use four Aruba Switches, in one stack, for 802.1X.
We use Aruba Switches mainly as access points.
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CTO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for extra switches on campuses and consecutive exchange of existing access switches.
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Aamir Hussain
Senior Network Specialist at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case of this solution is for Network connection and centralized monitoring and troubleshooting.
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WaelAwni
Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we supply to our customers. We have deployed several different models.
This solution is suitable for SME and SMB, mainly in the hospitality industry.
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IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
We have the switches on-premises but we also use the private cloud.
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Dheni Prasetyo
Network & Security Department Head at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
We used the product for distribution.
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RioAdi Nugroho
Presales Network & Security at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution for switches.
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Pathawee Jaito
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I am using Aruba Switches in hospitals, educational institutions, and government networks.
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