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Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points

Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points

Overview

What is Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points?

Aruba Networks offers wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions via its variety of wireless access points.

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Aruba Wireless LAN Systems have proven to be a reliable and robust solution for various organizations. Users have successfully converted …
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Aruba for the Win

10 out of 10
August 03, 2018
Incentivized
Aruba is being used by our school district to enhance connectivity for all staff and students. We deployed seamlessly across 15 buildings. …
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Aruba to the rescue

10 out of 10
November 15, 2017
Incentivized
We use Aruba wireless throughout the organization. We had a very unreliable wireless deployment from SonicWall. I had personally had …
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Product Details

What is Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points?

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Aruba Networks offers wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions via its variety of wireless access points.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Aruba Wireless LAN Systems have proven to be a reliable and robust solution for various organizations. Users have successfully converted their Aruba IAPs into a cluster, enabling them to manage their access points even when the controller goes down. This feature provides uninterrupted connectivity and ensures that users can stay connected without any disruptions.

Companies and educational institutions have also benefited from the scalability and easy management of Aruba Networks. For instance, a university system has implemented Aruba Wireless as their primary network, serving faculty, staff, students, and guest networks across multiple locations. With over 25 access points set up across campus locations, Aruba Wireless provides a seamless user interface for setup and enhances connectivity for a large number of users.

The ease of management is another advantage of Aruba Networks. Administrators can manage each controller from a single location, allowing them to easily identify problematic access points or areas that require attention. This centralized management capability streamlines the troubleshooting process and ensures efficient network maintenance.

Aruba Networks has also been deployed in various environments such as office settings, school districts, warehouses, and customer service locations. Users have found it to be a reliable alternative to their previous wireless deployments, providing a stable internet connection even during high-demand events like meetings and seminars.

In addition to its reliability, Aruba Wireless offers advanced features that attract users. Some users have switched from Cisco wireless to Aruba wireless due to better visibility and SD-Wireless capabilities. The deployment of multiple controllers, Mobility Master, Airwave, and Clearpass further enhances the overall network performance.

Overall, Aruba Wireless LAN Systems serve as an effective solution for organizations seeking robust wireless connectivity across multiple locations. Its scalability, easy management, and reliable performance make it suitable for various use cases ranging from small offices to large campuses or enterprise-level deployments.

Easy Installation: Multiple users have expressed their satisfaction with the easy and straightforward installation process of the Aruba Access Point. They found it to be hassle-free and user-friendly, making it convenient for both technical and non-technical users.

Convenient Cluster Upgrades: Many reviewers appreciate the convenience of being able to upgrade their entire cluster from a single dashboard provided by the Aruba Access Point. This feature saves them time and effort, allowing for efficient management of their wireless network.

User-Friendly Interface: The well-designed interface of the Aruba Access Point has been praised by numerous users for its ease of use. Its intuitive layout and smooth navigation contribute to a positive user experience, even for those who are not familiar with networking technologies.

Inadequate default settings: Some users have found that the default settings for the hotel lobby, offices, and outdoor areas could be improved. They feel that these settings do not meet their specific needs and require manual adjustments upon installation.

Lack of comprehensive documentation: Users have mentioned that better documentation is needed for the product. They have experienced difficulties with authentication methods and struggled to find clear instructions on how to configure and troubleshoot them effectively.

Challenges with pricing and licensing: Several users expressed dissatisfaction with the pricing and licensing of the product. They have concerns about it becoming similar to the issues they faced with Meraki licensing, which could potentially impact their budgeting and overall cost-effectiveness.

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good speeds and area coverage.
  • Easy deployments.
  • Good documentation and online support.
  • I hope it will not end up like with Meraki licensing when moving to cloud.
  • Some small issues for specific configuration changes which has to be done in order otherwise they do not work.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Overall AP Provisionment.
  • Cloud-based management/provisioning of APs.
  • SOHO Connectivity Troubleshooting.
  • Simplify or enhance management of APs as corporate assets.
  • Simplify device hard resets for laymen (end users).
  • Better REST API instructions/documentation.
September 12, 2020

Aruba Networks Wireless LAN

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Intuitive controller updates
  • Ease of access point configuration and deployment
  • Controller configuration using similar commands to Aruba Network switches
  • In-service software upgrades, although this feature has been added to Aruba OS8
  • Upgrading from Aruba OS versions may require a full network rebuild.
  • Additional licensing model for Aruba OS8
Bruno Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Supports 802.11 ac wave 2.
  • Supports many users at the same time at the access point.
  • Visibility of the entire wireless network.
  • Full access reports.
  • High price compared to some competitors.
  • It takes time to restore the network if you restart the controller.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • They have the range we need especially in our warehouses were they are mounted up on the ceiling.
  • They can all be controlled by a controller, which makes for easy configurations and monitoring.
  • The ability to have multiple SSID's is great. We are able to push traffic where it needs to go.
  • The built-in Guest network on the controller is top notch, and makes it super easy to give guest internet access but not access to your network.
  • We have had a bunch of these stop working after a power outages. We are guessing a surge or something caused them to stop working.
  • Some of the documentation is outdated. It seems they like to make changes to how things work and it usually mean less access and insight into the devices you manage.
  • The auto signal strength feature could use a little work. It seems like even when we turn it down all the way it tries ot increases the signal strength.
August 03, 2018

Aruba for the Win

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Monitoring - Airwave gives you a top down view of your network all the way down to the endpoints.
  • Ease of setup - From the beginning Aruba has been easy to implement and configure
  • Support - Airheads community and the people at Aruba have hands down been some of the best support I have used.
  • Remote access points were a little tricky to get working and requires a controller outside of the two we were currently using. On the plus side they have an inexpensive controller that worked for our needs.
  • I feel Aruba needs to offer more training in a hands on lab environment.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Using Airwave as single management point for APs in the environment, and the Web GUI management seems to be easy for administration.
  • Increase security with the use of Clearpass as NAC to provides role-based and device based network access control. Each wireless clients will establish secured ipsec tunnel and route data traffic to a controller. It's recommended to attached controllers closer to the network core with 10Gb uplinks.
  • Clearpass also built-in context-based policy engine, RADIUS, TACACS+ protocol support, device profiling and comprehensive posture assessment, onboarding, and guest access options.
  • Setting up Clearpass as RADIUS server to authenticate 802.1x users were pretty smooth. However, to setup Guest wireless with onboarding, and guest access can be challenged at times.
  • We have deployed the latest Aruba 335 with AC wave 2 capable APs. Just to compare to our previous Cisco 3700 series wave 2 capable APs, Aruba APs signal strength and coverage are significantly less than Cisco APs. We needed to increase the number of Aruba APs for the same coverage area.
  • There was an incident in Oct 2017, Aruba decided to push system patch and update automatically to the Clearpass. The process had brought down some services in the Clearpass including RADUIS 802.1x authentication. Aruba support notified us and found out there was a bug in the patch and somehow unknowingly cause the issue. This incident had caused our entire wireless offline and no one could authenticate to the wireless network regardless if there was redundancy setup in the system. The incident and outage were reported and affected to all Aruba customers in the nationwide.
  • There was a second outage in less than 6 months and also caused by another bug in the Aruba system. We have dual Aruba controllers A & B and dual uplinks for each controller setup for redundancy. However, recently when one of the controller A went offline without any alert (later found out the port-channels between controller A and the network switch became "not-trusted"), all APs residing on controller A had dropped and offline. However, all APs would not failover to the controller B. After digging into logs, Aruba tech support found out there was a bug in the software which caused this problem.
November 15, 2017

Aruba to the rescue

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Load balancing between APs.
  • Deployment of firmware.
  • We have the 325 model and can push several devices through them w/o issue.
  • They claimed to only need 20W of power for full functionality, however, we found they need 29W of power. On CISCO PoE switches at least.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • They offer both a controller-based and controller-less option. This allows customers of all sizes to deploy a wireless network without the upfront cost of controller hardware. A controller can be added later.
  • Aruba also offers Airwave which is a single management point for all AP swarms in the environment. It offers many reporting features as well as visual RF maps displaying heatmaps of the AP signals and client positioning.
  • The Aruba Access Point we have (224s and 225s) also offer both PoE and external power supplies for those smaller deployments that may not have PoE capable switches.
  • Although there is a Help option within the IAP web GUI, it would be nice to have it be a little more descriptive about what some of the features are and do.
  • Online documentation could give more information about configuration and troubleshooting, but a call or email to support usually has things resolved relatively quickly.
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