We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Aruba Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, NetAlly, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation."We use the solution for Wi-Fi and networks."
"The heat maps are quite good, and some features are easy to use."
"The predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"Clear and easy to use maps."
"Using the products to ensure the safety of our equipment that we have a lot invested in."
"The most valuable feature is the predictive survey. The antennas' RF patterns are reflected correctly on the drawing when preparing predictive heat maps."
"I would like to rate the product as eight of ten."
"The addition of the AirMapper software on the nXG and our AirCheck G2s has helped a lot because we're mostly not drilling down into the data. Local managers only need to see the coverage on their end and whether there are performance bottlenecks. These things are easy enough for us to ascertain with iPerf."
"The feature that I love the most is being able to broadcast different SSIDs with different protocol requirements. "
"There is no problem with downtime."
"I have not experienced any bugs, software, or hardware issues with Aruba."
"The virtual controller has options for updating and remotely restarting any AP from one controller panel."
"The most valuable features are the Instant On capabilities, including the controller."
"AirWave is a valuable feature."
"The biggest selling point was the ability to create two different SSIDs to control public versus private wireless networks."
"It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"It'd be nice if it was cheaper, however, you get value for your money."
"Less time consumed doing the real surveys."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"The user interface needs a lot of improvement. The auto-placement of access points is not accurate."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"Printouts are JPEG printouts. The AirMagnet software is proprietary. I can't send my customers a file, because it is AirMagnet file, even for building projects. I can only send JPEGs or screenshots of heat maps."
"I wish the APs had the ability to enter in notes about a specific AP."
"Initial setup was complex."
"The Return Material Authorization procedure is time-consuming and needs improvement."
"The reliability could be improved."
"There has been a recent decrease in the level of support."
"The Aruba Central cloud portal needs a lot of work. It is complicated to navigate."
"The management system would be better if it were more polished, if it had a better interface like, for example, Meraki"
"The urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 2nd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 38 reviews while Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AirMagnet Survey writes "It fixes so many problems quickly that we don't regret spending more on high-end tools than most companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, iBwave Wi-Fi, AirCheck G3, Ubiquiti WLAN and NetAlly EtherScope nXG, whereas Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points.
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