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."It is a robust product."
"A mature and functional product."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba ClearPass is the ease of deployment and integration with other equipment in the network."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature, I would say, is the cost-effectiveness of the solution when compared to others."
"The web dashboard and the policy manager are very intuitive and very easy for the engineers to use."
"Gives us network access control, visibility, scalability, security, and control in what is becoming an uncontrollable, inundated BYOD and IoT world."
"Its clustering model saved us staff time and reduced errors by eliminating the need to manage individual RADIUS servers."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use, well designed, robust, and has good traffic capacity."
"The ease of use is great, and the automation wizards can do a lot."
"The solution has good features for authentication, policies, and allowing users to self-provision devices for network access via their logins."
"Ruckus technical support is very good and helpful whenever we need them."
"I find the solution to be very rich in features."
"Instructions on adding layouts are not as clear as they could be."
"They should include SMP functionalities."
"I would like the area of managing wired technology to be improved. Wireless is very good but I'm still struggling a bit to do my end to end configurations in the wired technology area."
"It should be clearer in the pre-sales stage that clear, documented, executive-supported InfoSec policy is the key to success."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"I can't think of an area where the solution is lacking a feature or a capability."
"The setup of ClearPass can be a bit convoluted at times."
"The AirWave Dashboard heat maps could be better designed."
"The hardest part we've had to deal with is trying to find some physical product recently as everything is going like hotcakes."
"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."
"The setup process is a bit complex."
"The solution could improve by adding more detailed information that customers have available on the dashboards."
"I believe the solution is missing some great features which are present in other solutions like Aruba, UiPath, and Cisco ISE."
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 8.4. 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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