We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and Ubiquiti WLAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although it may be less cost-effective, users feel that Aruba is a more mature, robust product and provides better reliability and better service and support. Aruba consistently provides seamless trusted connectivity and an excellent secure user experience. Aruba works well for both SMBs and large business enterprises, making it a very versatile desired solution.
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The simplicity is great."
"Setup is straightforward."
"I like the analytics feature."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"Aruba is easier than Juniper."
"The functionality is very high and we can properly meet the clients' requirements."
"All features are useful for me. It lets me perform some specific configurations depending on the site or the client. All WAN features are valuable."
"We appreciate the integration options that are available."
"Aruba Central is a valuable feature because I can monitor access points remotely, even if I'm not in the office."
"The solution is scalable."
"Ubiquiti WLAN's most valuable features are that it works well in a hybrid environment and isn't heavy on resources."
"Ubiquiti provides good connectivity for the end-user, so I think it's stable."
"You can save backups of this controller locally and then I can export it to wherever I want."
"The solution is not complex to deploy."
"Ubiquiti WLAN is stable."
"The solution has a lot of great features."
"The solution works well and in the short time I have used it, I've enjoyed its capabilities."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"The Help option within the GUI needs to be improved."
"There needs to be better visibility on the day-to-day monitoring."
"Most of the access points don't include the chargers."
"Aruba Wireless has room to improve the connection from one AP to another."
"I believe that Aruba's support could be improved."
"I believe more security options are needed."
"There are some issues we occasionally have. However, they are easily remedied."
"They should have more support for implementing Aruba Wireless in Smart Cities and outdoor applications."
"When I started to upgrade, the controller for Unbuntu was really struggling to start up, however, that has since been solved."
"The solution could improve by having a cloud version. A cloud version is the easiest to configure anywhere in the world."
"Ubiquiti lacks troubleshooting tools. For example, there aren't tools that your clients can use to gather input on the AP itself. There's no visibility in the application layer or reporting. It doesn't have a lot of management features."
"I have never used cloud solutions. My first approach would be something related to the cloud, and backups on the cloud, and maybe an easier way to connect to it because I have an on-premises environment."
"Largely we're happy with the product, however, the firmware deployments could maybe be managed a little bit differently."
"The downside is the interface changes, where they are constantly doing firmware updates."
"The product needs to improve the user interface in the migration from old to new versions."
"The support needs improvement. The official support is kind of complex. It's not that straightforward compared to Cisco and Aruba."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 41 reviews while Ubiquiti WLAN is ranked 5th in Wireless LAN with 14 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.0, while Ubiquiti WLAN is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "Overall a good product that provides role-based authentication native to the controller, but has code stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti WLAN writes "Robust, easy to install, easy to deploy, and has good visibility". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Fortinet FortiWLM and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Ubiquiti WLAN is most compared with Aruba Instant, Cisco Wireless, D-Link Wireless, Huawei Wireless and NETGEAR Insight Access Points. See our Aruba Wireless vs. Ubiquiti WLAN report.
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Aruba is an enterprise WLAN solution, Ubiquiti is a home use solution although at my house, Aruba rules!
Aruba has a perfect enterprise solution with secure authentication, visibility & management and high customer experience.
I would go for the Aruba every time. Well made and has great support for techies. Easy to install and scale up. I have 92 access points and often have over 1900 devices connected at anyone time and it just works! I love how they tunnel the data across the wired network to the controller so our data is nice and safe.
Personally I like the Aruba. They can scale from small biz to large, controller based or stand alone. The hardware itself feels better/heavier than the Ubi which are light peices of plastic. Ive had terrible luck with Ubi stand alone APs in terms of range. If you decide on the controller based or IAP models they deploy with ease.
As my previous Post, it depends on the purpose or the type or network. For an enterprise network Aruba is rock solid, easy of configuration, Resilience Software with security functionality built in. Aruba radios are more sophisticated and powerful than Ubiquiti. If the requirement is a Soho network, with just a few Ads. Ubiquiti could be a good option.
Both Products provide good wifi coverage, Aruba I would use for Large Installations ie 200+ AP's while Unifi is great for smaller installation, however with Unifi it does have some restrictions when using multiple VLANS. TCO Unifi wins easy.. Aruba can get expense. IF your looking for just 6-12 access points for a small office look also at TPLINK.. they have been in the WIFI business longer and there products are also underrated in the business and enterprise space..
I have used Aruba the last 5 years now and just find tech support, access to support ,install, updates , and hardware to be simple and easy, granted applications do take some learning and configuring I have tried Meru, Aerohive and Cisco and Aruba has been in my experience best for business or education, the only knock id give it is every once and awhile updates can cause some weird reactions but in my experience this is common, so we resolved it by running test on a site at a time.
All I install is Ubiquiti I have no experience with Aruba, that being said I have 25 individual installs with largest having a IP count of 27 (a motel). One install is a Golf Country Club with 8 APs that on tournament days can have over 300 clients with no issues. So yes do recommend them to my Bosses (Clients)
Aruba is Leader in Gartner Quadrant, Aruba is the best solution for medium o great Enterprises. Its a professional solution.