Looking to do more SMB’s this year. What is everyone’s take on Aruba. I like the setup and seems super simple but since they got acquired by HP that also owns Juniper Mist, I am wondering what will happen to the product in the future? I know changes in cooperate do not happen over night and what I am talking about a year or two until everything gets figured out. When I am looking to bring new product, I am also thinking what might happen long term. Currently we do full stack Grandstream for our SMB and residential customers, but needing an other option for the SMB side. Thanks
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Hi Gibby welcome to the forum. A lot of us here use Grandstream and Ubiquiti products. I personally have been switching from Ubiquiti to GS since the products are better priced and I have support being a reseller/installer.
Aruba would be out of the price range for most of my clients. If you haven’t tried Ubiquiti give them a look.
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what level are we talking about here?
I see aruba central going away and mist being the only cloud option for AP’s from HPE but if you want controller based aps i think aruba aps are going to be around for a while.
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We used to a UBNT/Ubiquity shop since they came into existence. After 6-7 years I just got tired of them breaking updates, not having proper tech support that may have gotten back with in a 2 days to week and the fact you can by there product seems anywhere. Sorry
No problem. I understand completely.
If you are looking at a SDN ive have good luck with fortinet stuff for small to mid-sized office type networks.
Yeah I forgot about them. I’ll take a look. Thanks.
So typically I would agree with you – but I think if you watch they’re going to have a renewed push for the Aruba stuff – but – since there’s no local controller – I’m not even tinkering anymore.
My team at work retired a couple of local Aruba controllers. The local controller home back to the master controller. I will ask the wireless admin about the future of the Aruba controllers.
I find this comment very interesting. They are always responsive to us so I’d like to know what issues you’re seeing.
if you do go fortinet here is a cheatsheet i keep bookmarked
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Thanks for this, One question that I really can’t find is their license model? Looking for a docs on this. I just want to make sure I am not over pricing myself even before I bring product in. Or is this something I will have to contact Fortinet about?
I have really never had a problem with GS tech support. They always been pretty quick to respond to me. With that being said as they get bigger and bigger in their product line and with the just release UCM cloud I am sure that they are busy. But still it would be nice to actually talk with someone directly on the phone about this kind of issue instead of messaging. Or at least push you to the next support tier.
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It all falls under annual support contracts like all the other bigger players in the networking space. So, once you find a setup that fits in your pricing you can get 1,3 or 5 years of support. I think you get 90 days included with the hardware alone.
I order 5 years up front on all my stuff. Fortinet FortiCare 24x7 Comprehensive Support - extended service agreement (renewal) - 5 years - shipment - FC-10-624FF-247-02-60 - Warranties - CDW.com
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