I would say the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers would be a top contender as the best enterprise wireless controller that I have used. It has so many features and settings that can be controlled compared to other vendors. The newer Cisco 9800 is a different technology. At …
The Cisco equipment is miles better than the comparable Aruba Networks Wireless LAN devices. I would not quite put them in the same category as not all features are comparable. You also gain a lot of support on the back end by going with a large brand like Cisco, including more …
We don't have an experience with another vendors in this segment; however, from the marketing materials and the demo we have seen, Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers were the best for our needs, as they provide a relatively easy deployment process and management process afterwards, …
Diretor de Tecnologia da Informação e Telecomunicação
Chose Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
Regarding the Aruba system, in our environment, many more access points would be needed to cover the same area as the Cisco solution. This significantly impacted the value of the investment—more than double what we spent on the Cisco solution.
Although Aruba has also a great set of hardware and software products, we already had a big Cisco investment in access-points that would only work with Cisco Wireless LAN controllers, so it was a natural path. We have also a big Cisco switching platform that works very well …
Aruba Controller and it APs provided fewer features when it came to security and RRM. It couldn't scale and its GUI was not user-friendly at all. Meraki is our obvious choice when it comes to SMB, or managed WiFi for small enterprises. But with Meraki, only the control traffic …
Aruba has some strengths compared to Cisco's wireless technology. When thinking about the features, Aruba has driven the enterprise wireless sector for a long time with a strong feature strength. There is not much difference these days, but Aruba still has some features like …
Aruba controllers provide similar functionality to Cisco WLC. However, the Cisco web UI is a little easier to set up a new wireless LAN for new users.
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Chose Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
Xirrus/Aruba have interesting deployment methods. Their functionality is largely plug-and-play. They are less complicated to set up but still have similar functionality to Cisco.
Cisco Wireless LAN controllers are very reliable, provide ease of managing multiple Access Points, and compared to other name brand Wireless LAN controllers, I found Cisco's be among the best . While Cisco can be more expensive, you get what you pay for, a more reliable …
Aruba has some strong points than Cisco wireless. When you think of features, Aruba has driven the enterprise wireless sector for a long time with a rich feature set. Not much that difference in these days but Aruba still has some niche features like User-based firewall and …
Aerohive is decent but used to be very buggy and support is poor. We actually use them for remote access more than wireless. I've used Aruba previously (4+ years ago), and it was more complex and expensive to manage, but was very feature-rich and had good monitoring. For our …