We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant and Cisco Wireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Wireless LAN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"The simplicity is great."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"It is easy to use, manage, and implement."
"The installation is very simple. We've limited the security feature, which I found valuable, and that allows two separate networks, one for the company and one for a guest network. During installation, it is very easy at that point to divide it."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Instant is security."
"The access it grants to wifi is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Works automatically in terms of setup with the product finding its master wifi access point."
"Aruba Instant is easy to manage."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Captive Portal, which we employ for our guest network. It enables us to create a separate virtual subnet for guests, ensuring their network traffic remains isolated from our office network. Another valuable feature is its role-based access control. This functionality allows us to assign different access privileges to users based on their roles within the organization."
"Has many advanced features: Built-in firewall, local radius, application visibility and control, not locked into support agreements."
"The solution offers central management, reliability, and signal, ensures the bandwidth, and segregates the network. It also maintains the authentication process in the compass solution, which is good regarding multiple software."
"The tool's most valuable features are security, flexibility, user activity, and high bandwidth."
"This is a very stable solution that solves complex issues."
"Good manageability, and stability."
"The solution is very good at supporting IoT applications."
"One of the main advantages of Cisco Wireless is its DNAT compatibility. When we have dynamic segmentation, or the DNAT enabled on the LAN, Cisco Access Point integrates with the DNAT architecture. Aruba Switches cannot integrate with the Cisco DNAT architecture."
"The initial setup is easy. It's fairly quick to deploy."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"The price could be better."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"The product’s GUI must be improved."
"Aruba Instant is a simple and scalable solution that works well, but the costs you incur from access points could be cheaper."
"The security features must be improved."
"Although built-in troubleshooting tools are available, they are not at all intuitive to use. Aruba Instant lacks decent documentation to use for troubleshooting wireless issues (fortunately there aren’t many)."
"Aruba Instant can improve by increasing the gigabit range of the switch or by adding additional management features and tools. It can be helpful."
"Aruba Instant's visibility, firewalling, L3 functionality, and DHCP services could all be improved."
"There is an issue with flooding to the Aruba access point on the ports."
"They could provide a centralized system to manage switches incorporated into multiple branches."
"Requires a firewall body to improve security."
"Cisco Wireless could improve if they had some kind of social media integration. There is some limitation with social media integration and wireless interaction. They need to add some additional components to their wireless devices to complete the solution or requirements."
"It's end-of-life, it will be end-of-support in the next two years. The APs are also end-of-life."
"Improvements can be made to the telemetry. The licensing gets in the way here. It makes it impossible to record the different flows across the wireless network."
"Sometimes our customers do not get proper IP addresses from the DHCP pool."
"There are some areas of improvement needed in roaming and streaming."
"In the future, it would be great if the solution had a GPS feature that could have the ability through access points to locate cell phone users inside a local wireless network, for example in a stadium."
"It was expensive. Considering the challenges faced in third-world countries like Pakistan or India, cheaper solutions are preferred."
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Aruba Instant is ranked 6th in Wireless LAN with 42 reviews while Cisco Wireless is ranked 2nd in Wireless LAN with 145 reviews. Aruba Instant is rated 8.6, while Cisco Wireless is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant writes "A highly stable and easy-to-deploy solution that is free and provides excellent deployment guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Wireless writes "Allows us to deploy a wide range of wireless products with stable WiFi". Aruba Instant is most compared with Omada Access Points, Aruba Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Cisco Wireless is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Omada Access Points. See our Aruba Instant vs. Cisco Wireless report.
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