We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Meraki MS Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many PeerSpot users feel Aruba Switches is the better choice. Aruba switches are stable, easy to manage, and support stacking. The Aruba Switches audit feature gives full transparency of the network and the layer three switches are reliable and easily scalable.
"The most valuable feature is that it's very easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the routing protocol and the basic functionality."
"The solution has great open architecture."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Switches is its performance."
"I like the number of available throughputs and its ability to have different speeds of ethernet cards or fiber-optic SFPs. It's a core switch, and you can configure it as per your requirements. All the configuration details are well documented on the HP website or Aruba website, and one can easily refer to those and find all the relevant commands from the documentation itself. It's also easy to maintain this solution. It's also cheaper than competing products."
"The most valuable features are the access point, fire control for clients, majority control, platform control in SSIGF, WiFi networking, and area monitoring."
"There is a feature where you can use Bluetooth. You can set up a Bluetooth pairing connection and do the configuration through your phone."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Meraki MS Switches are their reliability and simplicity."
"Easily installable, with good scalability, stability and technical support."
"The most valuable features of Meraki MS Switches are simple deployment and administration. You can have all your switches in one place and manage them."
"The most valuable feature is the granular visibility that they provide with a single pane of glass."
"The solution is very stable."
"It helps manage multiple switches deployed in different locations with a single console on the cloud."
"I like the flexibility of the Meraki firewall. It gives you the ability to lock things down. Having multiple VLANs is helpful for the switching infrastructure and firewall. It's crucial when you have a public-facing VLAN, a private-facing VLAN, and a secure VLAN."
"The solution is stable."
"It's an expensive product."
"I am forced to consider changing products because other solutions have a better dashboard and a user-friendly interface."
"The log viewer should be improved."
"The endpoint capabilities could be improved."
"Aruba does not have local support in our region of Kerala."
"We don't have visibility in Aruba Switches and we are thinking of switching to Fortiswitch because it has visibility."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"It takes a long time to import Aruba switches to Ecuador."
"The price for this product could be cheaper. For a low-budget school or institution, scaling up and implementing more switches could take longer because of budget constraints."
"The licensing model needs to be improved."
"It can have better security. It needs more security enhancements, and in particular, a zero-trust element. If we could have external and internal users vetted in the same way as a zero-trust network, that will be handy."
"In terms of troubleshooting, if we get more tools there is an issue."
"The traffic reporting should be better in Meraki MS Switches. We want to be able to see all the traffic and where it is going. Additionally, detailed device utilization information would be very helpful for the security personnel."
"Meraki MS Switches could improve if it was an SDN. It will be more flexible and WWE can use one link for specific traffic and another one for other traffic."
"There is not much training available for this solution."
"The solution needs to improve its ability to back up the auto-configuration."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Arista Networks Platform. See our Aruba Switches vs. Meraki MS Switches report.
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