Six brands cover almost every business network we see: Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba Networking, Juniper, HPE Networking Instant On and Ubiquiti. All of them make reliable hardware. The real difference is how you manage it, what it costs to run over time and how much your team wants to configure. The short version: Cisco […]
Yes, for a small business. HPE Networking Instant On switches (sold as Aruba Instant On until the rename) give you VLANs, PoE, QoS and a phone app to run them, with no license fee and HPE’s limited lifetime warranty. They sit between plug-and-play unmanaged switches and enterprise lines like Cisco Catalyst and HPE Aruba Networking […]
HPE Aruba Networking doesn’t really make routers. What people mean by an “Aruba router” is usually an Aruba gateway (a 9000 Series box that routes and secures a branch), an EdgeConnect SD-WAN appliance, or an Aruba CX switch doing the routing inside a campus. Aruba’s line is built around access points, switches and those gateways. […]
An enterprise router connects your sites to the internet, to each other and to your data center. Compared with a small-office router it handles far more traffic, several internet links at once, VPNs to many sites, routing protocols like BGP, and redundant power, and it’s built to run for years without a reboot. The best […]