We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and ExtremeWireless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Wireless LAN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The solution is stable."
"The simplicity is great."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"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."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The Airwave is the best feature for a single management point for all APs in the environment."
"Setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Wireless is application monitoring."
"The solution is very stable."
"Stability and its ability to handle more devices has been an improvement for our organization."
"When support is needed, the Aruba engineers are normally quick to respond to problems."
"It provides excellent performance and security through the use of available features and policies, reducing the reliance on external firewall configurations while ensuring a secure and reliable network environment."
"The 335-AP provides reliability, stability."
"ExtremeWireless is a flexible solution."
"It's cloud-based and very easy to deploy."
"The wireless security solution is the most valuable feature of ExtremeWireless."
"The stability of the solution has been fine."
"I like Cloud IQ, ExtremeWireless' cloud controller and analytics platform. It's full of information, easy to use, and provides excellent visibility into my network."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The cloud-based management system is valuable."
"In terms of the most valuable features, I like the integration with the fabric. The network fabric completely integrates with wireless as well."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"The solution is expensive."
"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."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"Sometimes the configuration is difficult."
"An area for improvement in Aruba Wireless is creating a DMZ. Without Aruba ClearPass, you need to allow guess access directly via the internet, which means you need to implement the security in between, so this is what I'd like Aruba to improve in the product."
"The urgent areas of improvement would be customer support, better tuned default settings, and documentation."
"The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to have more analytics features."
"The speed could be better. I heard that Aruba is trying to shape the speed inside the wireless controller, but that has not been adopted yet. If they put some kind of mechanism inside the wireless controller for the speed such that, "Okay, this many users will have 20 by 20 - 20 in the upload, 20 in the download. Just this many users. And this many users will have that type of speed." I think it would be very good if they actually bring that functionality inside the wireless controller."
"They could work on energy consumption as this equipment needs a lot of energy."
"Aruba Wireless can improve the assigning of access points. We have times that the nearest access point is not assigned but one far away. The integration between access points could improve."
"The coverage, concurrent user life, and visualization are the most valuable features of these solutions."
"ExtremeWireless support isn't very good."
"The solution needs to improve its portfolio."
"The ability to integrate with network devices from other vendors would be helpful."
"It is a subscription model, so it is maybe a bit pricey."
"In the next release, I would like to see more security features."
"The onsite controllers are not as good as the cloud controller. I would also like ExtremeWireless to add web filtering on the access point. This feature is available from other vendors but not ExtremeWireless."
"The management portal is in need of improvement."
"The product must be provided at a cheaper price."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 139 reviews while ExtremeWireless is ranked 13th in Wireless LAN with 21 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while ExtremeWireless 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 ExtremeWireless writes "An easy to deploy solution that can scale and expand". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti WLAN and D-Link Wireless, whereas ExtremeWireless is most compared with Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, ExtremeCloud IQ, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and Cisco Wireless. See our Aruba Wireless vs. ExtremeWireless report.
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It also depends on the integration with your LAN network and Network Access Control. Both have campus and cloud-native solutions.
One single pane of glass for all your end devices is very advisable. So be sure to integrate your LAN with your WLAN and NAC, and if possible with your firewall gateway and endpoint security.
Aruba Wireless has a very rich feature set and integration possibilities. Extreme has a very high level of automation and easy to deploy virtual services on their SPBM fabric.
So it all depends on your expectations and business case...