Aruba Airwave and Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista compete in the network management solutions category. Aruba Airwave seems to have the upper hand due to its flexibility in diverse network settings and robust multivendor support.
Features: Aruba Airwave offers multivendor support, advanced network visibility tools, and orchestration capabilities. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista provides comprehensive monitoring for both wired and wireless networks, a unified network management solution, and detailed analytics.
Room for Improvement: Aruba Airwave could enhance integration with other platforms and provide better licensing options, while improving AI and machine learning capabilities. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista could improve security features, support, and simplify scalability. Both products face pricing challenges.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Aruba Airwave is generally deployed on-premises or in private cloud environments, with positive user reviews for its technical support. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista provides flexible deployment options, including public cloud, and has satisfactory customer service, though it faces some criticism for escalating issues.
Pricing and ROI: Aruba Airwave's pricing is known to be expensive, with a strong ROI over time due to its features. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is generally cheaper with a perpetual licensing model and strong reliability, although some users have cost concerns.
I would rate their technical support as a nine or ten, as it's quite good.
Angie was very kind and communicated well in both Spanish and English, making it pleasant to connect with her.
Aruba Airwave is fully scalable, as we have a large number of tenants using the network with approximately six thousand end users.
I have found Aruba Airwave to be stable.
The end-to-end users' messages show some details that are not always up-to-date, and sometimes the information from the GUI is not exactly aligned with what's on the website.
When upgrading hardware, there were technical issues with network interfaces and Red Hat, which required escalation to developers.
When attempting to copy a floor plan, it does not copy well, so I often have to redraw the walls.
The pricing for Aruba Airwave is acceptable because compared to Cisco, it's slightly cheaper, but not significantly - maybe 5% or 7% less expensive.
Aruba Airwave provides good visibility, offering extensive data on network dynamics, such as access point connections, usage, signal strengths, and potential interference from neighboring Wi-Fi networks.
It provides near real-time monitoring using AIMON and AURO protocols, which is robust with multiple models and brand support.
The most helpful feature I noticed, yet did not utilize, allowed us to add our Cisco switches for monitoring.
Get cohesive management and network-wide visibility with a full set of tools for converged campus networks and data centers.
With this comprehensive and powerful network management tool, you’ll benefit from a full set of components for infrastructure and device configuration, monitoring, backup, scheduling, security, alerts, quarantine, troubleshooting, downtime resolution, and overall management.
Along with making day-to-day network operations more efficient, the Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 2500 Network Management System (NMS) provides all the network management tools and reports you need to track and achieve your business goals.
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