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"Ekahau Site Survey is scalable.""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.""Ekahau Site Survey is user-friendly.""We reviewed the maps as a team and determined if any changes needed to be made or if we could just replace APs as they are. We got into this by upgrading our access points to Meraki, and we wanted to make sure that we weren't leaving trouble behind us as we were doing it.""It is a stable solution.""The most valuable features of the Ekahau Site Survey for us are the combination of using the tool.""Channel planning, access points' auto position, and the size of the spectrum are valuable to me.""I like that our users can send us a floor map. Sometimes it's not feasible to travel to another country where the users are based. So, the floor map is very useful. It's a fantastic product."

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"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score.""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.""The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

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"I wish the solution was better at making different survey modes.""In all of our buildings, whenever we deploy wireless access points, we also have to deploy wireless intrusion detections. The Ekahau Site Survey tool doesn't allow us to differentiate between the access point and the intrusion detection device. That's because they're the same devices, but they're configured differently for the type of usage. That's one area that I would ask them to improve. They should allow the identification of access points versus wireless intrusion detection.""It would be better if it provided clear visibility. It would be better if it accommodated large physical sites like a warehouse with a ceiling height of more than twelve to fifteen feet. In such situations, we were unable to provide better coverage.""Its migration and visualization features need improvement.""The support is an area in need of improvement.""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.""Ekahau would benefit by making improvements to lag time.""Our CTO was not real happy with their support."

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

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  • "This solution is not cheap. If you only need an occasional site survey, you are better off contracting a wireless engineering professional that has one."
  • "The solution is priced fairly for the features that you receive."
  • "The licenses are a little pricey compared to iBwave, etc."
  • "The pricing could be lower because the Huawei radial planning is free for the partner. When I asked my boss about buying Ekahau and the USB key, it was complicated because of the high cost, which is €5,000."
  • "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."
  • "The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it"
  • "We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000."
  • "I believe that it is approximately $2,000 per year for us. I know we pay for it on an annual basis."
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  • "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."
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Ekahau Site Survey is the predictive survey.
    Top Answer:The product’s pricing is reasonable except for certification and training. The certifications are expensive, hope that they give discounts to instructors and those who are working in the academe. On… more »
    Top Answer:Updating the iOS and PC versions of the Ekahau Site Survey app, while the Android version lags. They should prioritize enhancing the Android app's capabilities to ensure a seamless experience for… more »
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    Overview

    Over 12 years in the making, ESSTM maintains its reputation as the easiest to use, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi design and maintenance tool for Wi-Fi professionals. With crystal clear heat maps and easy-to-use reports, ESS makes it simple to optimize Wi-Fi.

    ESS allows you to plan and create Wi-Fi networks according to your performance and capacity requirements—taking into consideration the increasing amount of wireless clients and applications such as VoIP, HD video streaming and web browsing.

    RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, so you can target existing cybersecurity resources to protect your most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see the security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience.

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    Manufacturing Company18%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Educational Organization10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Government22%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Healthcare Company8%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Ekahau Site Survey is ranked 1st in Network Modeling and Simulation with 30 reviews while RedSeal doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Modeling and Simulation. Ekahau Site Survey is rated 8.8, while RedSeal is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ekahau Site Survey writes "Valuable troubleshooting tools and easy to scale, but outdated documentation, issues with stability, and lacks differentiated survey modes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RedSeal writes "Provides a graphical overview of our network and is easy to deploy, but needs a user-friendly interface and a feature for compliance audit policy". Ekahau Site Survey is most compared with AirMagnet Survey, iBwave Wi-Fi and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, whereas RedSeal is most compared with AlgoSec, Skybox Security Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Darktrace and Tufin Orchestration Suite.

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