We performed a comparison between Aruba ClearPass and Ruckus Cloudpath based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Access Control (NAC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the integration options with a multitude of other vendors and Aruba applications."
"Support is decent."
"ClearPass' best features are authentication, support for multiple devices, and monitoring."
"What I like most about Aruba ClearPass is its access tracker that serves as its monitoring feature. The access tracker is really helpful when you want to troubleshoot authentication failures."
"It's very easy to access support and the documentation is self-explanatory."
"The solution is highly stable."
"ClearPass is open to any operating system or mobile app."
"We are mainly using Aruba ClearPass for our clients for securing access to their on-premise assets. As per customer expectations, we are trying our best to track the complete user activity in the network. This is the main and the core feature we require."
"Ruckus technical support is very good and helpful whenever we need them."
"The tool's most valuable features include the phenomenal functionality of DPSK. The ease of use, particularly when it is correctly set up, is remarkably simple. Tracking users is straightforward and dynamic. This allows us to identify where a user might encounter issues within the process."
"I find the solution to be very rich in features."
"The ease of use is great, and the automation wizards can do a lot."
"The solution is easy to use, well designed, robust, and has good traffic capacity."
"The solution has good features for authentication, policies, and allowing users to self-provision devices for network access via their logins."
"We have had some issues with the installation of Aruba ClearPass."
"Because some users use OS 10, it would be good if the solution could group its functions better."
"The GUI of Aruba ClearPass could improve, it is not user-friendly."
"TLS authentication onboarding in Aruba ClearPass needs to be improved. The biggest problem we've seen in our environment is Huawei not being able to get onto Google Play. No Huawei device can be onboarded via Aruba ClearPass easily."
"In the future, I would like to see plugins for AI and machine learning."
"I would like to see is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service. This way, like AWS, they can spin up what they need when they need it and vice versa."
"ClearPass' GUI could be more user-friendly."
"Some functions could be improved."
"I believe the solution is missing some great features which are present in other solutions like Aruba, UiPath, and Cisco ISE."
"The hardest part we've had to deal with is trying to find some physical product recently as everything is going like hotcakes."
"The solution could improve by adding more detailed information that customers have available on the dashboards."
"The setup process is a bit complex."
"The tool needs to support multi-vendor environments. Currently, my experience with it has been primarily within Ruckus environments. However, I haven't explored it for multi-vendor scenarios. It would be great to see newer builds that are multi-vendor capable of full integration."
"The scalability could be better."
Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Ruckus Cloudpath is ranked 10th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 6 reviews. Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6, while Ruckus Cloudpath is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ruckus Cloudpath writes "Helps to onboard corporate users based on certificate-based authentication". Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and macmon Network Access Control, whereas Ruckus Cloudpath is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC and Sophos Network Access Control. See our Aruba ClearPass vs. Ruckus Cloudpath report.
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