We performed a comparison between Aruba Wireless and Fortinet FortiWLM 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."You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"Juniper Mist offers valuable features like comprehensive network insight, granular policy control, fast device setup, strong security, and efficient SSL traffic management."
"The solution is very secure."
"The solution is stable."
"It has improved overall IT efficiency across the board."
"The Airwave is the best feature for a single management point for all APs in the environment."
"It delivers constantly, there is no break in the internet using these devices. It also automatically gets connected when the internet comes back. Failure is very low."
"Aruba Central is a valuable feature because I can monitor access points remotely, even if I'm not in the office."
"It helps the user to have a better vision of what is happening in their network."
"For my organization, the most critical feature of Aruba Wireless is guest management."
"Setup is straightforward."
"I like the analytics feature."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its speed, reliability, and integration with the firewall."
"Security is the feature we like most from Fortinet. In general, their security architecture is really great, because it involves everything: firewalls, wireless LANs, the user. Everything is really secure."
"We're using SD-WAN at all of our locations now, which helps increase and aggregate and lower response time and improve application performance."
"With Fortinet, there is a feature called Network-In-Control. It's the AP controller that decides what the clients are going to connect to... Even though your phone sees, let's say, two APs, since the wireless controller has visibility into and access across all the APs, it knows the best AP for the client to connect to. This way, the controller makes sure that none of the APs is over-crowded, and the spectrum is used properly."
"The most valuable features are central management and the many other features available."
"The product is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWLM is the single management pane and integrated controller inside the firewall."
"If you do have a FortiGate Firewall somewhere in the network, you can connect the wireless controller to that... You get 100 percent visibility from a single point... You can see everything that's connected to the FortiGate, whether it's a switch or a wireless AP or a wireless controller or any other Fortinet product."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation."
"Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"MAC authentication against an external Radius server while using 802.1X. This feature will help the L2 devices to authenticate via external Radius servers."
"Making the setup more simple is an area for improvement in Aruba Wireless. Security-wise, this solution also needs work."
"Configuration for this solution could be made easier, so people could benefit from being able to configure it within a quicker amount of time."
"The stability and management could be improved."
"An area of this product that could use improvement would be the troubleshooting. At times I had to engage Aruba Support which ran some pretty complicated troubleshooting commands. I would not have been able to do with existing CLI documentation."
"Better integration between the controller and the ClearPass portal would be a nice change."
"The Return Material Authorization procedure is time-consuming and needs improvement."
"The product’s performance got worse with newer releases."
"The guest management features need to be improved by adding automation."
"Cost is something that could be improved, but you have to pay for what you get."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The pricing model can be improved to encourage use by small business and individuals and the hardware could stand to be redesigned."
"The solution should improve user capacity."
"The interface could certainly do with some improvement. We have other customers with WiFi networks, and they always use Ubiquiti. With Ubiquiti, it's a much better user interface, and it is much easier to configure."
"The roaming of Fortinet FortiWLM could improve when comparing it to other solutions. We are missing some of the functionality in the controller. Additionally, they should offer more logs instead of using FortiAnalyzer because all the users will not be using the same thing."
"Licensing is the only area that I think they are below average. They need enterprise licensing, an all-encompassing license to cover all products for a company."
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Aruba Wireless is ranked 1st in Wireless LAN with 138 reviews while Fortinet FortiWLM is ranked 16th in Wireless LAN with 22 reviews. Aruba Wireless is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWLM is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiWLM writes "Impressive manufacturing quality, highly durable, and very easy to deploy". Aruba Wireless is most compared with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN and Ubiquiti Wireless, whereas Fortinet FortiWLM is most compared with Ruckus Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti Wireless and Omada Access Points. See our Aruba Wireless vs. Fortinet FortiWLM report.
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