Ekahau Site Survey vs RedSeal vs iBwave Wi-Fi comparison

"The troubleshooting tools are the most valuable feature of the solution."

"It's easy to plot APs and generate reports."

"Ekahau Site Survey is an easy and accurate solution."

"The most valuable feature of Ekahau Site Survey is the predictive survey."

"The most valuable features of the Ekahau Site Survey for us are the combination of using the tool."

"I don't handle the software that much. I'll do some of the testing with our CTO. It is primarily him and I. He has commented before that he likes the fact that with two licenses, we can set it up so that when we're on a large facility, he can see where I am and I can see where he is. That's for sure is very handy in large venues."

"The ability to perform dual-band spectrum analysis while conducting the standard WiFi site survey is a tremendous time saver."

"Ekahau Site Survey can be crucial for troubleshooting our Wi-Fi network."

"I find the high-quality Heatmap generation, multi-floor, and wire mapping features to be most valuable."

"The solution's 3D imaging is amazing."

"Compared to other tools, iBwave Wi-Fi provides 95% accuracy and generates heatmaps."

"The 3D Coverage is a good feature that shows the signal propagation in three dimensions."

"The stability and feature set of the application are top notch and can't be matched."

"iBwave Wi-Fi's tech support is great. They pick up their phones. I have no complaints."

"It can speed up design."

"The most valuable features of iBwave Wi-Fi include the critical three dimensional modeling capabilities, which are necessary for tasks like locating access points, determining their height, and cable routing."

"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."

"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."

"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."

"Ekahau needs to enhance the view of materials and make some adjustments to the reports."

"Our CTO was not real happy with their support."

"Sometimes there is a cancellation between two signals that the solution is not able to monitor correctly, this could improve in the future."

"They should improve the iPad application because it's unstable. Also, Ekahau could be better integrated with other vendors."

"I would say that the indoor site accuracy is pretty good but the outdoor one should be improved. I would say if there was a way to put trees in there and canopies, that would be great."

"I find the power button hard to access with just one hand."

"Its migration and visualization features need improvement."

"Ekahau could be improved by adding three-dimensional modeling, as we currently cannot view APIs in a three-dimensional perspective."

"The cost of the solution could be improved. It's extraordinarily expensive."

"It would be good if we could involve a visual while designing the backhaul."

"iBwave Wi-Fi could be improved by adding a plot for overall improvement, allowing us to see where we are failing in design parameters, similar to features in Ekahau."

"Areas of improvement would include more functionality in the Mobile App, expanded reporting features, and some shortcut features."

"It would do iBwave well to become more involved with their clients."

"iBwave Wi-Fi doesn't have a distributor feed platform."

"I would like to be able to see two buildings at the same time so that you can create a campus view."

"I am currently looking for an alternative due to my reluctance with the reliability of this product."

"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."

"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."

"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."

"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."

"That's a tricky thing. When it started off, we had one three-year license and one one-year license because we have two devices. Now, from my understanding, we can only renew every year or get a one-year license, and that cost varies. Being a government organization, we get a different cost than commercial. We have deployed it on Surface Pro tablets. So, the only other cost would be the hardware cost."

"Since we are an academic institute, we get better prices and discounts from Cisco, but not Ekahau."

"We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000."

"Ekahau Site Survey is a really expensive solution."

"The licenses are a little pricey compared to iBwave, etc."

"I believe that it is approximately $2,000 per year for us. I know we pay for it on an annual basis."

"The pricing is high."

"We pay a licensing fee."

"iBwave Wi-Fi is an expensive solution, but it is worth the cost."

"The solution's pricing is cheap."

"I advise others to treat the cost as you would any tooling cost and use the monthly option as needed."

"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."