We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"It can interact with other vendors better than Cisco, which is a good point of AirWave. It is easy to use, and its reporting is good."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"This solution gives you a lot of reporting capabilities, and it has a very good interface."
"This solution is definitely stable."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Cost is always a big issue for partners."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."
"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."
"Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker."
"I would like to see an integration of services into one system, rather than having multiple systems to do multiple things."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Airwave writes "The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Fortinet FortiManager and Aruba ClearPass, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Aruba Airwave vs. DX Spectrum report.
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