We compared Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless both offer strong connectivity, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable performance. Aruba Wireless stands out for its seamless integration, extensive security measures, and high scalability, while Huawei Wireless is praised for its sleek design, long battery life, and efficient signal strength. Both products have competitive pricing and positive customer service experiences, but Aruba Wireless users highlight superior customer service and support, while Huawei Wireless users emphasize the need for improvements in signal strength, compatibility, and device durability.
Features: The valuable features of the Aruba Wireless product include strong and reliable connectivity, user-friendly interface, seamless integration with existing networks, extensive security measures, and high scalability. On the other hand, the Huawei Wireless product is highly praised for its efficient performance, sleek and compact design, easy setup process, and ability to seamlessly connect with multiple devices. It also offers long battery life, extensive coverage range, and advanced security features.
Pricing and ROI: Aruba Wireless's setup cost is straightforward and does not require extensive technical knowledge. Users find its licensing flexible and customizable. Huawei Wireless also has a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, allowing for a smooth installation process. Its licensing is easily obtained and offers flexibility., Based on user feedback, Aruba Wireless has shown positive ROI with its product, while Huawei Wireless also contributed positively to ROI.
Room for Improvement: Aruba Wireless could improve in response to user feedback. In contrast, Huawei Wireless could benefit from enhancements in signal strength, device compatibility, user interface, and durability.
Deployment and customer support: The Aruba Wireless users have mixed experiences with the duration required for a new tech solution, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. In contrast, Huawei Wireless users also have varying durations, with some taking three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others take a week each for both phases., The customer service of Aruba Wireless receives high commendation for its quality, responsiveness, and professionalism. Users appreciate prompt assistance and efficient problem-solving. Conversely, users praise Huawei Wireless' prompt and helpful customer support, highlighting their expertise and efficiency.
The summary above is based on 66 interviews we conducted recently with Aruba Wireless and Huawei Wireless users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"The simplicity is great."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The feature I found most valuable to customers in Aruba Wireless is not a technical feature. It's more of its image, trademark, or brand as the product is very well-known in the market, and that's a good point to offer to customers. My customers just ask about the basic features of the product, and usually, when asking about Aruba products, customers don't pay too much attention to any specific feature as long as the product is solid and sure, and that you can change or modify it, as what you can get from Aruba Wireless."
"The main features of Aruba Wireless in my country is its popularity, long hardware warranty when compared to other solutions, and it integrates well with our network access control solution."
"I have not experienced any bugs, software, or hardware issues with Aruba."
"The product improved overall scalability and simplicity in configuring and replacing. The use of an Aruba Controller to configure multiple APs was game-changing."
"APs are very easy to configure to the network once they contact the controller."
"Aruba Wireless does not have too many distinguishing feature sets. However, tunneling is more flexible in this solution than other solutions, such as Ruckus."
"It's a very stable system."
"It can scale."
"From an implementation perspective, it's easy. I rate it a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup, and ten is an easy setup."
"The reliability has had a positive impact on our operations."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"This solution is very simple and the interface is user-friendly."
"The most valuable thing about Huawei Wireless is that it is one of the cheapest WiFi 6 systems. Its price is very nice. The other WiFi systems cost about 15% more."
"We can use an access point to broadcast multiple SSIDs, assign dynamic VLANs, and configure dynamic access control lists (ACLs)."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its simplicity."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"The solution is expensive."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"The price could be better."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"Aruba Wireless could improve the dashboard. It is not straightforward or intuitive to use and could be more user-friendly. For IT employees the dashboards are fine but when it comes to the end-user it is difficult. The Mobility Controller dashboard is not meant for non-IT employees."
"The solution's documentation could be better organized in an information portal."
"I wish the APs had the ability to enter in notes about a specific AP."
"The coverage, concurrent user life, and visualization are the most valuable features of these solutions."
"Sometimes the configuration is difficult."
"Some additional reporting features about the clients would be nice when not combined with the AirWave management package."
"Configuration could be made easier with more bandwidth than they offer at the moment."
"I believe more security options are needed."
"Cloud integration needs to be improved."
"I have encountered connectivity issues with the tool. I am not sure if it is due to Wi-Fi inference. I would like the solution to include some marketing analytics features like evaluation of user behavior."
"They should include more security features in the solution."
"The scalability could be a bit better."
"The technical support needs to be improved. They also need to produce some more technical guides."
"Support could be a bit faster."
"Huawei Wireless has a small technical problem. When you use a power injector, it needs to be specially configured for the switch to which it is connected. It tries to take power not from the power injector but from the switch. The funny thing when you look at it is that you have three switches or maybe four or five that are theoretically capable. However, the port on these switches is disabled. When you connect the access point to a power injector, the access point checks for features from the switch, but on this port, the switch doesn't do power. So, the access point changes these features to energy save mode and cuts off some features, especially WiFi 6. It took me two weeks to find out what's going on and how to mitigate this sort of problem. It is very easy to fix. You need to disable LLDP on the port on which you connect the access point to the power injector. Power injectors aren't quite commonly used, but I have 54 access points, and I have used about 27 power injectors. So, about half of the access points were working at reduced speed, not full speed, for two weeks."
"The solution should offer more integration with third-party servers and devices."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews while Huawei Wireless is ranked 9th in Wireless LAN with 33 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while Huawei Wireless is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Aruba Wireless writes "The portal for centralized management and virtual controller for APs are very valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Wireless writes "Customizable and has many unique features, such as encryption, spatial streams, and smart antennas". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Mist AI and Cloud, whereas Huawei Wireless is most compared with D-Link Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN, Ruckus Wireless and Fortinet FortiWLM. See our Aruba Wireless vs. Huawei Wireless report.
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1 Ruckus
2 Aruba
3 Cambium
It depends on your enviroment.
Greetings
Here's my recommendation in order.
#1 Aruba
#2 Ruckus
#3 Ubiquiti
Hi Vinny,
I recommend you the following devices:
1. Ruckus: Easily to deploy. Expensive but effective. Don’t ask for the advanced license - you don’t need it. Buy only the basic one. A great option for hard users performance and large venues.
2. Ubiquiti: Easy to deploy, cheap but limited hardware. This is an option for basic performance.
3. Aruba: Easy to deploy, expensive, bad UX experience.
4. Cambium networks: A good option, between Ruckus and Ubiquiti.
5. Huawei. Never. Never. Never. Bad UX, bad support experience, bad hardware, bad everything.
6. Meraki. Too expensive. Don’t!
Regards!
If you want high performance and stability, you should definitely go with Ruckus Wireless.
Ruckus Wireless APs have:
- Adaptive antenna technology (called BeamFlex)
This technology analyzes different paths to reach the client and electronically turns itself to a directional antenna, choosing the path that gives the best performance to reach each specific client. If the client is mobile or if the environment changes (such as a warehouse) the selection of paths/direction also changes instantly.
Transmitting in a directional way allows a good Signal-to-Noise Ratio and also causes less interference for other nearby APs outside the path of the directional transmission.
- ChannelFly technology
This technology chooses the best channel based on performance rather than background scanning for noise.
- Polarization Diversity
This technology allows the clients not to lose signal strength when held at different angles (important for mobile devices such as tablets and telephones).
- Better receive sensitivity compared to the competitors
All these features make Ruckus Wireless a better choice than any other competitor (better performance, better coverage area, more stable and surprise-free communication especially in not so easy conditions such as noise, too many clients, too much traffic).
Selecting an AP depends upon a couple of factors which include (the number of users per AP, coverage area and required speed/throughput)
My recommendations are:
1. Ruckus
2. Aruba
3. Cisco
Ruckus:
Performs well in a high-density environment, with unique adaptive antenna technology & PD-MRC gives more coverage and interference mitigation. Ruckus offers a reliable Wireless network solution.
Aruba:
Good but not the best with better security features.
Cisco:
Complex deployment, is costly but it has better compatibility.
I have a smaller venue where I am using Unifi: Dream Machine UDM, Aggregation Switch, U6-Lite APs and Pro Switches...fiber optic backbone.
I am extremely satisfied with its performance. I can't tell about the other brands.
Have a look at Juniper Mist solution - it used in large retail stores and corps as well as a full integrated AI suite.
You can implement hundreds in just a few hours using foundation staff as it can all be programmed up on the cloud, no need for expensive network engineers to deploy
https://mist.com
Malcolm
Hi Vinny,
I'm biased toward Ubiquiti Unifi, but successful Wi-Fi deployment is hugely dependant on the type and number of Wi-Fi users, and more importantly, the layout and environment of the area you would like to cover.
Please feel free to PM me to discuss your application.
Regards,
Steve Pender