We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Mikrotik Router and Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba Switches finishes slightly ahead of Mikrotik Router and Switches in this comparison. Aruba Switches offer high availability and support stacking; they are also easy to configure, very scalable, and very reliable. Users of Mikrotik Routers and Switches feel the solution lacks a wireless option and that it is a bit outdated and clunky.
"The most valuable Aruba switch feature is the lifetime warranty. It is a plus point in the budget."
"The initial setup is quite easy."
"a value-for-money product and comparatively a very reasonable price compared to competitors like SAP or IBM."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is its performance."
"Aruba Switches is stable."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the use of use and user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature is that it's very easy to configure."
"Very easy and quick to setup and provide a nice dashboard providing a view of everything."
"The pricing is very reasonable. It's not too expensive."
"MikroTik offers full enterprise capabilities at a very reasonable price."
"It has a lot of features. I haven't explored them all yet."
"We have use cases like providing power over ethernet, as an access controller for Wi-Fi, and normal networking."
"This equipment is resilient and available at a good price."
"One of the primary advantages is its competitive pricing in the market."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You can typically set them up in about 30 minutes."
"The tool's most valuable features are flexibility and configuration. It can be used in large setups."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"The main issue we had with the Aruba Switches was that they would heat up easily when placed outside. We have two locations with no cover in the corridor and it's a historical building. We experienced outages on the first batch of Aruba Switches we received, which we never had with the Dell Switches, for example, even though Dell Switches are not as well-known. However, the Dell Switches had been outside for a few years and we never had any issues with them. In contrast, we encountered an issue with the Aruba Switch after only one week of being outside when it shut down in security mode."
"The customer service could be a bit quicker and the employees could be more professional."
"They should provide training courses for certification, and have it available on the internet."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing because the Aruba Central licenses add a high cost."
"The firmware in this solution has a lot of bugs that become noticeable when you have complex implementations."
"I would say that the customization of the switches could be easier to configure."
"The biggest issue right now is the delivery timeline. It takes too long to get the product."
"The solution needs to be more robust. In case of power fluctuations, MikroTik routers are more vulnerable to malfunctioning."
"They could improve their product if they set, for instance, a controller for wireless LAN. That would allow them to really have something more than an access point."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to have the option of having multiple logins."
"The product needs to include more power."
"As far as improvements, there are basically only two things I would suggest. First, I think they should provide extensive training for the new releases of products, especially in the LTE space. Second, they could spend more time ensuring that their OS releases are more stable, rather than waiting for things to fall apart on the customer's premises before they make the necessary changes."
"There is an area of improvement. The firewall features are self-contained, but features like email scanning and voice control should be improved. This is the best routing product."
"The solution should improve the features of Wi-Fi 6 a little bit."
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Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 6th in Ethernet Switches with 61 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Huawei Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Huawei Enterprise Routers and Juniper MX Series Routers. See our Aruba Switches vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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