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.
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"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 most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"Juniper Mist offers valuable features like comprehensive network insight, granular policy control, fast device setup, strong security, and efficient SSL traffic management."
"The simplicity is great."
"The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"The solution is very stable."
"Clearpass solution from Aruba."
"Stability and its ability to handle more devices has been an improvement for our organization."
"APs are very easy to configure to the network once they contact the controller."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is application monitoring."
"Setup is straightforward."
"Role assignment: Each user is assigned a different role based on the radius attributes returned by ClearPass."
"It provides superior WiFi access and RF management."
"What I like most about Huawei Wireless is that it's customizable. It has many unique features, such as encryption, spatial streams, hiding features for different scenarios, low-density and high-density areas, and smart antennas."
"This solution is very simple and the interface is user-friendly."
"All of the features are valuable in Huawei Wireless."
"It can scale."
"The best feature of Huawei Wireless is the quick and fast setup."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"It provides high-speed network connections."
"That would be more of engineering at this point. I'm from more of the business side. It's pretty much doing the standard installations with portal integrations and integrations with the Mac."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"I would like to see the management improve."
"Aruba Wireless could improve the interface, it does not have a smart web interface. Other solutions have smart web interfaces, such as Cisco Meraki."
"Aruba’s poor performance and random upgrade issues caused too much time consuming maintenance and troubleshooting."
"I would like to see a faster web interface in the controller and more troubleshooting tools, including real-time troubleshooting tools."
"The reliability could be improved."
"The stability and management could be improved."
"Aruba is missing some features that are available in other solutions, such as the email notifications. It's a bit complex to configure the notification part. Mainly I'm talking about the rogue WiFi detection. This email notification is crucial for us, but it isn't possible to configure with the built-in software. You need something else, like an external system log collector or another Aruba software. These notifications are essential in hospitality for PCI compliance. My colleagues in famous luxury hotel chains need that report."
"Most of the access points don't include the chargers."
"Huawei Wireless can improve the signal, sometimes it becomes weak."
"Improving the visibility, control offered, and cloud management would all be very helpful. Also how you can monetize the information you get from Wi-Fi controllers should be improved."
"Technical support could be better."
"The stability could be improved."
"The speed could be a bit better."
"Cloud integration needs to be improved."
"Price is one of the major problems of the solution, and because of this, our company's customers want to migrate to some other product from Huawei."
"This solution has issues with bugs and instability."
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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