Aruba Switches Reviews

Our clients use Aruba Switches for networking.

The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the routing protocol and the basic functionality.

Aruba Switches could improve the monitoring and increase the scope of their online portal to cover cloud and on-premise deployments.

I have been using Aruba Switches for approximately two years.

The performance of the solution has been good for all our customers.

One of our clients has approximately 2,000 customers using the solution in the multiple-story business.

Most of our clients are enterprise-sized companies.

I rate the scalability of Aruba Switches a nine out of ten.

I have not had an issue to need the support for.

I have used Cisco and Juniper. Cisco has a high price.

The initial setup of Aruba Switches is straightforward. The full deployment took approximately two months. Some of the factors that increased the time were solution delivery and the customer's use case.

Cisco has a higher cost than Aruba Switches.

I rate the price of Aruba Switches an eight out of ten.

I rate Aruba Switches a nine out of ten.

The solution is high quality, reliable, and can handle heavy workloads.

We use the solution for our network switches and access points.

The most valuable feature is the lifetime warranty.

The bandwidth is good.

The throughput is high.

Aruba does not have local support in our region of Kerala. The support is from Bangalore and support can be delayed.

I have been using the solution for five years.

I give the stability a nine out of ten.

I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

The technical support is good.

Positive

We previously used Cisco Switches and switched to Aruba because of the speed.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment was easy to configure. I give the deployment a nine out of ten. The configuration can be completed within half an hour.

The implementation was completed in-house.

I believe in the next year we will see a return on investment with Aruba Switches.

Aruba Switches are less expensive than Cisco. 

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

We have around 1,000 users.

We have two administrators for the solution.

I recommend Aruba Switches to others. The cost is lower, the performance is higher, and the solution has higher throughput.

The primary use case is in the manufacturing area in our factory and the other places like our warehouses for the stores.

The most valuable feature is the switches are reliable and replaced for free if anything goes wrong.

I would like to see something like a Cisco Prime, an application controlling the entire system, switches, and access points.

I have been using Aruba Switches for the past ten years.

Aruba Switches are highly stable.

The scalability is excellent. We have around three hundred users currently.

Customer service takes around a month to replace a switch and they bring it from the USA. We are not under an SLA or maintenance contract. Their responses take a lot of time, but the quality is very good.  I think we need another level of support.

The initial setup is very straightforward and has a GUI interface.

The installation took some time and is not as good as CISCO. We used both in-house and vendor teams to assist us.

The cost is very cheap when you compare it to CISCO.

I would strongly recommend Aruba Switches and rate them an eight out of ten.

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.

This solution is really easy to use. It is much easier to use than Cisco. It's got a nice web interface for stepping up and an added warranty. We need this limited lifetime warranty on the switches because we also have service level agreements with our clients and I want to make sure we provide them with the best product.

This solution could be improved if it offered long term support on a specific model or product. What we find in the market is that companies bring out too many new models, and if you still have an older model on your project, you do not get support. 

In a future release, we would like to see MQTT protocols added as well as OPC. We have this functionality on other industrial switches and some of our clients like that feature. Using those two protocols, we can provide cloud based monitoring of their systems.

I have been using this solution for six years. 

This is a stable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten. 

This is a scalable solution but we have experienced challenges with availability of certain versions of the solution that allow it to be used at scale. 

I would rate it a five out of five for scalability. 

I've dealt with them once or twice but most issues have been sorted out by our distributor. It it is a bigger query, I submit it to HP for resolution. 

Neutral

I would rate the initial setup a four out of five. We had some issues with high-level protocols that you use for redundancy. You have to set it up via a console, like MST and RSDP. If your network is not complex, it's very easy to set up.

We have two engineers or two technicians who usually complete the installation and this takes one week. 

I wouldn't say we have experienced ROI but I would say that we have saved money on our service level agreements. Because of the stability, we do not need to do any replacements.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

We use Aruba Switches for our network, basically, we are segmenting into various VLANs, and also we have a routing switch.

We use all the features of Aruba Switches and find it very helpful.

I would like to see a lower price for the device.

I have been using Aruba Switches for the past two years.

Aruba Switches are definitely stable.

Previously, we used Cisco, Huawei, and Avaya.

The setup is straightforward and not complex. 

We are system integrators and it took us about three months to setup. We set it up in stages.

The pricing for Aruba Switches is definitely expensive.

I would rate Aruba Switches an eight out of ten.

I work for a government department in Ecuador and we use this product for our projects. We are partners with Aruba. 

The solution is easy to use and quick to deploy. 

It takes a long time to import Aruba switches to Ecuador. 

I've been using this solution for seven months. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable, we have around 5,000 users. 

We pay a monthly fee for this solution. 

I rate this solution nine out of 10. 

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.

Initially, we had a 1G switch. Now that we have upgraded to Aruba, the infrastructure is on 10G. The throughput has definitely increased, and many people were able to realize the speed of the internet and data sharing immediately.

I like the number of available throughputs and its ability to have different speeds of ethernet cards or fiber-optic SFPs. It's a core switch, and you can configure it as per your requirements.

All the configuration details are well documented on the HP website or Aruba website, and one can easily refer to those and find all the relevant commands from the documentation itself. It's also easy to maintain this solution. It's also cheaper than competing products. 

I don't think there is much to improve. I have seen that Aruba releases the patches on time, and it keeps upgrading the firmware. I have configured this device on an active basis. I don't think I have any bad reviews about the device's overall performance.

In the next release, I would like Aruba to incorporate wireless controllers and build them into the chassis.If we can integrate a wireless module, we can have a segment dedicated to wireless infrastructure.

I have been using Aruba Switches for nearly three or four years.

Aruba Switches stable. Until now, I haven't had a chance to restart the device. It's pretty stable and working well.

Aruba Switches are scalable. The device that I procured is a six-day device. In these six days, you can probably populate any number of ethernet ports or SFP plus ports, or any kind of interface.

It was okay as we had the help of an experienced external team. It took us almost two days to implement this solution. We have two technicians maintaining this solution.

I had an experienced team from outside who got the contract for configuring it. It was a team effort, a team from outside and my own IT department team. Both had to copy the old configuration running on an Extreme Network Switch and configure it on Aruba's high availability platform. As we did it over a weekend, the workers weren't affected.

Aruba Switches are cost-effective.

Aruba is cost-effective. I have a direct account manager who used to visit us to understand the complete requirement. On the other hand, Cisco costs way too much for the same kind of switching device. 

I think Aruba did a better job compared to many other vendors. In the end, I just wanted a solution that could serve the university's requirements. We have tested many different products like Alcatel Extreme and others.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Aruba Switches a nine. 

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.

When I first started two years ago, we didn't have these centralized modular switches and we had a bunch of stackable switches and there were many loops in the network.

We had different brands too. HP, Cisco, Linksys, Aruba, we had NETGEAR. There was not a common type of interface. We had network issues almost weekly.

We were able to get it organized and centrally managed, with a spanning tree to detect loops and more.

All of the networking products that we use are Aruba, so we use Aruba Central to manage them. This gives us a single place to look at land switches, wireless switches, and switches in other offices. It makes management a little easier.

It's the same type CLI commands to manage these.

There are many options with the modular switch and you buy cards for it. If you want 48 ports of one gig, you can buy a card for that, but more options would be better.

Right now, there's only eight, an eight-port, 10 gig module and sometimes we need a little denser than eight ports. It would be good if I could get a 24-port, 10 gig module.

We have been using Aruba Switches for two years.

The Aruba Switches are very stable. We keep it up to date.

We update the firmware and software annually, as needed. We haven't had any issues. They are relatively new.

Aruba Switches scale well, because of the modularity of it and to be able to buy different modules and interchange modules. We have a pair of them and they are linked together with 40 gig connections, so all of the cards are interchangeable between the two switches and some of that is just by design.

These are the core switches in our organization and everybody in the office uses them. This includes our remote offices. Everybody passes data through them, albeit this is somewhat less at the moment because of the COVID quarantine.

I have not had to contact technical support.

We had a mix of modular switches at this company. We had some HP, Cisco, NETGEAR, and Linksys. We looked at the switches that can provide us the port density that we needed, in one or two chassis-type units, and was also affordable.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The price point was a big consideration for us and it is reasonable enough that we're able to standardize on Aruba for the networking pieces in our organization. This also includes Wi-Fi and access points.

Generally speaking, the price is good.

Overall, this is a good, solid tool. It doesn't do anything fancy but it does what we need it to do. We don't do any routing through it. We have other routers to do all of that work. Again, the modular flexibility was a big attraction for us.

I've used Switches forever, so I knew what to expect. There was no installation really needed. We knew how to set up VLAN and set up the interfaces. We're happy with it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.