We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable aspect is its monitoring capabilities."
"We like that it is very easy to manage the product through the cloud."
"It's stable."
"They provide great service in terms of replacing malfunctioning switches."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the routing protocol and the basic functionality."
"I like the Aruba Central platform. It makes a lot of sense. The switches have a lot of great capabilities. Central can lockdown VLANs and control the apps and protocols. There are several built-in security features that I'm not utilizing. However, those capabilities are part of the reason I'm using enterprise switches in a small office. I like knowing that I can do these things when necessary."
"This is a very stable product with good performance."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"It is user-friendly, reliable, and cheap."
"The performance has been good."
"The interface management and the user access management is pretty good."
"It's a well-rounded solution for routing."
"The most valuable feature is that it has better throughput than its competitors."
"A valuable aspect is its user-friendly configuration, making it accessible even for individuals with basic technical knowledge."
"There are a lot of features to control permitting or stopping packets in the network."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and the dashboard could be improved."
"We had an issue with the hardware where one or two interfaces went down after one and a half years. This issue impacted only one or two interfaces, not the whole hardware."
"I think that the performance is getting better but they need to have more powerful switches on the market so that they can capture medium and large businesses."
"If you work for a small business, then Cisco would be best."
"The written documentation, all the available documentation, is often a little bit hard to find. The solution lacks documentation, especially on recent features. We have access directly to Aruba, Germany, so they are always helpful, but if you start, for instance, with something a little bit more complex like zero-touch provisioning, that would require a more comprehensive written piece."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing because the Aruba Central licenses add a high cost."
"If we compare Aruba and Cisco at the data center layer, Cisco has its Nexus switch. Aruba provides the new 10000 series, but it does not compare with the Nexus switch."
"It takes a long time to import Aruba switches to Ecuador."
"MikroTik needs to add some features like IPS, mail security, or antivirus, et cetera."
"If MikroTik had a marketing team and support team in India then it would be much easier for us to get the product, as well as support."
"Antispam and antivirus features should be included in the future."
"Improvements are needed with respect to some of the security, especially for VPN links between vendors other than Cisco."
"Technical support could be better."
"In medium to large sectors, there's a necessity for managing aspects like proxy firewalls."
"There has to be more development in the OS. It's complex for this switch as compared to others like Cisco. For NetGear and Cisco, it's easy to adapt the VLAN concept but it should be simplified for MikroTik."
"It happens that you may find your network is down, if you reboot the switch, they come up. However, sometimes, they reset themselves. That's a big issue."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is ranked 15th in Ethernet Switches with 18 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is rated 8.0. 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 MikroTik Cloud Router Switch writes "Easy to set up, user-friendly, and reliable". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Netgate TNSR, Huawei Enterprise Routers, Arista Networks Platform and D-Link Ethernet Switches. See our Aruba Switches vs. MikroTik Cloud Router Switch report.
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