Huawei Wireless Reviews

We have deployed Huawei CCTV solutions at multiple universities in Pakistan. This includes Huawei Wireless for Smart Campus projects, where we provide blanket Wi-Fi coverage and Safe Campus projects, where we deploy security cameras and multiple devices to monitor the campus.

Huawei Wireless has allowed us to provide extensive Wi-Fi coverage and security solutions in large educational campuses, which are crucial for our Smart Campus and Safe Campus projects.

When opening the radio, we manage the frequency to handle overlapping effectively. Huawei's spectrum efficiency supports our network capacity needs well.

The manageability of radio frequencies to avoid overlapping needs improvement. Additionally, the reporting part requires enhancement as some customers need detailed reports of each Wi-Fi point, which we currently manage with Excel. Enabling this within the WLP could be beneficial.

I have been familiar with Huawei Wireless for about three years now.

Based on scenarios, we use Cisco and Cambium for large outdoor areas. Cambium is good for outdoor deployments as its APs have higher throughput and coverage area.

We are the implementation partner.

For SMB customers with limited wireless users, Huawei Wireless may not be suitable due to the lack of multiple access points and the need for a centralized SSID. However, for large-capacity customers, Huawei Wireless' enterprise functionalities are manageable.

For smaller companies that don't need a complete solution with a WLAN controller and only need to deploy a single unit, I would not recommend Huawei Wireless.

We use Huawei Wireless to create a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, allowing seamless connectivity for various devices. Additionally, it facilitates the transition of our applications from desktops to laptops.

In terms of valuable features, every aspect of Huawei Wireless is essential.

Sometimes, when interacting with the product's customer service or engineers, the language accent can be challenging to understand. While technically proficient, enhancing communication skills would greatly benefit the customer experience. 

We have been using Huawei Wireless for a year.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

We have around 10,000 users in our organization. We utilize it 24/7 for daily operations. Wherever we deploy the product within our enterprise-grade environment, it effectively reaches and covers the premises. It incorporates AI capabilities that streamline the integration of access points and provide diagnostic insights. Even when access points may be out of reach, the platform offers valuable information at high and low levels. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

The technical support services are highly commendable. They resolve the queries. Except for the language barrier issues, they are technically efficient.

Positive

We used Cisco. Later, we switched to Huawei Wireless for better pricing.

We often required additional support from the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) to set up the system properly. Since we needed more training in this area, we relied on the assistance of employees familiar with the implementation. It takes around four weeks to complete.

I rate the process a seven out of ten.

Huawei Wireless generates a return on investment. That is the reason we have renewed the service for a year. I rate the ROI a nine out of ten.

The platform is less costly than Cisco. I rate the pricing a three out of ten.

We evaluated other options, such as Aruba and HP. Ultimately, when comparing factors like availability, updates, equipment costs, and maintenance expenses, Huawei emerged as the most suitable choice, especially considering affordability. While Cisco was preferred initially, it is costly, and the pricing factor was a major factor for our organization considering the purchase decision.

Huawei adapters have facilitated seamless integration with mobile devices, extending the LAN's reach. Additionally, including CampusInsight, a component offering analytics and visibility into wireless connectivity, has proven invaluable. This feature enables us to monitor network health and troubleshoot user-related issues efficiently. 

The reliability has had a positive impact on our operations. 

I advise others to go for Cisco if cost is not a factor. Otherwise, they can explore other options based on the availability of that OEM within the country. We have Huawei present in our country and provide all the necessary support, so we went forward with them.

I rate it a nine out of ten.

The product's Wi-Fi 7 solution stands out as it offers cutting-edge technology in wireless communication, enhancing bandwidth management and coverage.

Given that Wi-Fi 7 is a new protocol, compatibility with other devices like phones and computers that lack this technology could be enhanced.

I've been working with Huawei Wireless for over several years. I work with various versions as I distribute them to partners, covering everything from the entry-level to the flagship models.

The platform is highly stable and considered a market leader in reliability, providing consistent performance without major issues.

I would rate the scalability a ten; it effectively caters to various deployment sizes and environments without compromising performance.

Deployment involves identifying installation locations for access points, configuring network settings, and integrating with existing infrastructure like switches for optimal performance. 

I would rate the setup experience a solid ten; it's straightforward and user-friendly.

To compete effectively, Huawei might consider adjusting pricing to align more closely with other competitive brands, particularly those offering lower-cost solutions.

I would recommend Huawei Wireless based on its performance and features. I rate it a ten. 

Huawei Wireless is for my SME, intermediate, and enterprise customers, mainly in the education, gas, and law enforcement sectors. I have several customers in many domains, so the product is for small, medium, and large companies.

What I like most about Huawei Wireless is that it's customizable. It has many unique features, such as encryption, spatial streams, hiding features for different scenarios, low-density and high-density areas, and smart antennas.

What needs improvement in Huawei Wireless is after-sales support. I've faced many after-sales support issues, so that's the area I want Huawei to improve. Having an SLA with customers is what I'd suggest to Huawei Wireless.

I've been working with Huawei Wireless for eight to ten years now.

In terms of stability, Huawei Wireless is an eight out of ten.

Huawei Wireless, scalability-wise, is nine out of ten.

The after-sales support for Huawei Wireless is six out of ten because it takes a long time. The procurement procedure is lengthy and takes too much time to process the PO. I'll issue the PO to Huawei, and then I have to wait six to eight weeks for equipment delivery before proposing an arrangement to the customer.

Neutral

The initial setup for Huawei Wireless is easy, so it's a nine out of ten for me.

It takes six to eight weeks to deploy the product.

Initially, as I'm in pre-sales, I generate RFPs and the response when a customer has issued a published tender. I'll check the requirement, and then I'll map it to the Huawei product. I'll then make the Statement of Compliance (SOC) and select the proper model. Next, I'll send the information and document to Huawei for technical vetting. After technical vetting, I'll request Huawei to share information on costs and other vetted documents I need to complete, and once completed, I'll submit the documents. It'll then take approximately ten to fifteen days.

Deploying Huawei Wireless requires teamwork because the deployment process involves different people and teams, such as the project manager, post-deployment, and pre-sales teams, to deploy the product completely.

Our customers have ROI from Huawei Wireless products that are successfully running and are fully operational and functional on their premises and even on the cloud.

Huawei Wireless is an expensive product. I'm rating it as one out of ten, price-wise.

I'm based in Pakistan, and a pre-sales manager focused on ICT, particularly in wireless, wired, security surveillance, and information security products.

Huawei Wireless is one of the products I'm working with, and I'm using it too.

I'm selling Wi-Fi 6 products. Huawei Wireless is a hot product in the industry nowadays.

My company is a Huawei Wireless gold partner.

I always work with the latest product version, which will eventually become Wi-Fi 7.

I'm recommending Huawei Wireless to others looking into implementing it because it's technically one hundred percent compliant in terms of customer requirements. It offers all features at a reasonable cost versus other OEMs. I strongly recommend Huawei Wireless because it's cost-effective and one hundred percent compliant technically over other products.

Huawei Wireless is mainly deployed on-premises, though I have some projects where it's deployed on the cloud.

My advice to others looking into implementing Huawei Wireless is that as a product, it's good. You can easily search for documentation on the Huawei website. You must learn Huawei Wireless first, and then it becomes easy, but it needs to improve its after-sales support.

My rating for the product, overall, is nine out of ten.

We have a lot of use cases for Huawei Wireless. We have ISP providers. We have SMB customers. We also have a factory manufacturing Huawei network equipment, including optical transmission, wireless networks, routers, UHGs, etc. We also have customers using full cloud features.

At the moment, I only have experience with the on-premise deployment of Huawei Wireless, but the cloud solution looks good on paper. It looks perfect. I can say that Huawei's cybersecurity is very good, stable, and works for long periods. My company has four devices running uptime for more than four years without stopping.

I also like that the support for Huawei Wireless is swift, and support does precisely what you require, at least from the point of view of the technical engineer who communicated with Huawei support, as I'm more of a technical sales guy. Good technical support is vital to my company, partners, and customers.

My company had this ongoing project with an ISP provider in Bulgaria that bought some routers. Still, the existing equipment was a completely different brand, so this provider wanted to migrate to Huawei Wireless and wanted help while migrating the existing infrastructure to Huawei, so the technical engineer assigned to raise the ticket with Huawei for checking and setting parameters correctly provided feedback about Huawei technical support being good quality-wise and TAT-wise.

The technical engineer was also Cisco-certified and Juniper-certified and was not experienced with Huawei equipment. Still, he did mention that the Huawei Wireless router interface was straightforward, and even a person who's new to it would find it easy to configure.

Huawei Wireless is user-friendly, which is another pro of the solution. It's easy to manage, and even the program language setting can be done with fewer commands than Juniper and Cisco equipment.

Some of the features in Juniper need an external program, and the same features can be found in Huawei Wireless built-in, which I find remarkable.

The demo program is an area for improvement in Huawei Wireless as it's hard to use. As a partner, you can use the solution for free, for thirty days, for example. On paper, everything looks fine, but you have to get permission and explain why you want to download the software, even if it's just for demo purposes. I don't get why I have to do this as a partner and still give an explanation that this would be for a demo setup.

Downloading the solution isn't a click-and-install process that should go smoothly and efficiently. You have to get a lot of approvals and explain a lot, and in the end, you find out that you received the approval for one piece of software.

It looks like you need additional software to use the software. My company asked for approval and received the approval three days later, but you need to install another software to use some of the features.

In the past, most features were separate. Because Huawei wants a single pane of glass where all features should work with the Huawei equipment, Huawei decided to combine everything into the iMaster NCE Campus, which incorporates every other cloud solution. However, you still have to ask for approval for every piece of software, and without clear information on the features, the type of software, and the software files required, it's not so good from my point of view.

My company gave feedback to Huawei about this, and the explanation was that Huawei Wireless is a complex solution. Still, you can present your ideas to Huawei, and Huawei will give you advice on how to download the software, for example. However, this is a demo software, so how can you be sure what features you want to use without knowing how to work with the device?

My team didn't get the training, even if Huawei provided a lot of training. Every quarter, Huawei includes training for different types of products. Still, my team wanted to test the product and start learning through testing, but it looks like it's better to have the free online training first and see what the features are and how to set up Huawei Wireless before doing the demo.

In the future, I'd like Huawei Wireless to offer a free cloud solution or free licenses similar to what other vendors provide. For example, Aruba and Cisco offer two levels or types of WiFi equipment. Cisco has Meraki, and there's Meraki Go, a free cloud solution. Aruba has Instant, and Instant On, a license-free WiFi solution. Huawei Wireless currently doesn't have free options for SMB customers, which is what Huawei needs to bring in more SMB customers.

My experience with Huawei Wireless is less than a year, but my company has been working with Huawei for about seven years.

Huawei Wireless is a stable product.

Huawei Wireless is highly scalable. Even if you use its on-premise version, it's scalable, though it's less scalable than the cloud version. You have the option to expand the existing infrastructure to two thousand units of access points. You can set up several locations and manage a very, very, very big infrastructure.

The technical support for Huawei Wireless was good and responsive.

I've used Aruba, Ubiquiti, and Netgear, apart from Huawei Wireless, because my company also sells those brands.

We are distributors of Huawei Wireless, so we're not deploying it. We have partners who do the deployment with the help of Huawei's remote service desk.

My company is making money from Huawei Wireless, but I didn't calculate the monthly ROI, so I cannot provide a figure for it.

Right now, my company made a one-time purchase of Huawei Wireless. It depends, but in most of the projects where customers buy hardware with some software, it's a one-time purchase. Customers pay a yearly fee for other projects for support and additional software features, such as email protection firmware updates for cybersecurity. You'll also receive information about the latest attacks and get more protection if you pay an additional fee apart from the standard license fee. You'll also get an additional warranty for Huawei Wireless, a yearly contract.

I'm working for a distributor for Huawei in Bulgaria. I'm a product manager for Huawei network equipment in Bulgaria.

As a distributor, my company has some demo equipment at the office and different versions of Huawei equipment, such as switches, routers, and access point controllers. For example, for Huawei AirEngine, my company has versions 5760, 5761, 5762, etc.

At the moment, Huawei Wireless is deployed on-premises, but the team is working on moving to a cloud-based solution. Most brands or vendors nowadays focus on cloud solutions, so that's what my company is trying to activate. My company will present an iMaster NCE Campus demo to a partner, so the partner can start using that solution.

It's not just SD-WAN that the company is trying to move to because SD-WAN is part of a complete cloud solution, cloud management solution, and network management system, which can be used only for monitoring or remotely managing devices.

The number of users of Huawei Wireless within the company isn't significant because it's just demo equipment, and it's not the main wireless equipment used in the office.

The number of people required for the deployment and maintenance of Huawei Wireless depends on the size of the project, the circumstance, and the requirements. For example, there's a project with one hundred and sixty access points with four service engineers, so deploying Huawei Wireless doesn't require many people.

I suggest anyone looking into implementing Huawei Wireless to ensure correct WiFi planning. As long as you receive the exact WiFi access point model and the exact location, everything will be fine. The deployment of Huawei Wireless would also depend on your partner. Support depends on customer requirements. You can order support contracts if you want everything to be smooth and up-to-date in the future. You can order support contracts upfront, before, or even after deployment.

As Huawei Wireless is a very good solution, I'd rate it as eight out of ten. I can't give it a ten because I don't have a vast experience with it, and there's no perfect solution.

My company is a Huawei partner.

My clients use Huawei Wireless for their LAN network.

The solution's most valuable feature is mobility or seamless roaming.

The solution's integration with some AAA servers like Aruba ClearPass is difficult and could be improved. The solution should provide a cloud-based centralized management. The solution’s pricing could also be improved.

I have been using Huawei Wireless for three years.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

Small businesses would find the solution a bit costly. Huawei Wireless is more suited for medium-sized and enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The solution’s initial setup is a bit complex.

If you know the procedure, the solution can be implemented within a couple of hours.

Huawei Wireless is an expensive solution.

Cisco and Aruba are Huawei Wireless's main competitors. However, Huawei Wireless is better than Cisco and Aruba from a cost point of view. I would recommend the solution to users who can afford it.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use the solution to access Office 365 and other applications that are present in our data centers. 

I am impressed with the tool's seamless integration. 

I have encountered connectivity issues with the tool. I am not sure if it is due to Wi-Fi inference. I would like the solution to include some marketing analytics features like evaluation of user behavior. 

I have been working with the solution for one and a half years. 

The tool is stable. However, you may encounter connectivity issues at times. 

The tool is scalable. My team has 20-25 users for the solution. 

The tool's technical support is very supportive. 

The solution's deployment is not complex. 

I would rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

In offices, warehouses and auditoriums, we have tested Huawei APs in different environments always covering and connecting to the devices

It allows Wi-Fi connections to always be active and there are no interruptions.
No complaints from users

Huawei Wireless's most valuable feature is smart antenna, a combination of informative capabilities and advanced technology. It has been a great experience because of its good performance in terms of coverage. 

Huawei Wireless's could be a console port for demonstration or configuration purposes.

I have been using Huawei Wireless for four years.

I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.

We have 80 Huawei Wireless users in our office. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

Meraki, definitely the coverage is the best

The product generates a good return on investment.

The product has a good price. I rate its pricing a ten out of ten.

Huawei's solution is just what is needed for WiFi connectivity, good coverage and no losses. I rate Huawei Wireless a ten out of ten.

The solution provides cloud-based learning. You need to subscribe. There's no charge for this. Most cloud solutions are about how possible those devices you understand online and things like that.

If you can, add what this project is doing, and you can include the Portal. On the interface of the access points, then you can include the host ones.

The technical support from Huawei Wireless is generally good due to its efficiency and effectiveness. Additionally, we have a dedicated data center where we utilize specific tools and resources Huawei provides. 

Neutral

The initial setup is easy. You can even integrate it with your existing network. So, the vendor is trying to make this easier for the user experience.

The solution is expensive, but it competes in the market.

Huawei is good. They have been in the market for long. It's user-friendly compared to Cisco. We can configure devices more friendly.

Huawei Wireless provides access management control, eliminating the need for additional license agreements to access devices. It includes an inbuilt radio server, which can enhance its functionality.

I work for a company that produces devices, and you would need to use Huawei products, especially in Nigeria, due to factors such as performance, efficiency, support, and cost.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Actually, we sell the solution to enterprise customers and government entities. So they are using it for their employees, for their Internet connection. So they are using it for their employees, for their internet connection.

My customers care about a lot of features. So, first of all, the wireless coverage, and secondly, the security. The security makes it secure enough. Also, it can be used to have multiple profiles or VLANs, to create multiple profiles for the users.

The quality of Huawei Wireless is also a good feature since it supports ac and AX, which are the new standards for IEEE.

The ongoing support and ongoing follow-up on customers is an area where the solution lacks. Mist, on the other hand, offers good support. So, Huawei somehow has room for improvement in the area of support.

It's a long journey, so I have used Huawei Wireless for over ten to twelve years. Though I am a seller of wireless solutions and firewalls, my company has a partnership with Huawei.

If someone wants my suggestion for a wireless solution, and if that person is looking for new features, then Huawei Wireless is a liability. I would tell that person to go for something like Juniper, especially since Juniper has AI features and since it's cloud-based. Huawei Wireless, not performance-wise, but sometimes it hangs.

It is a scalable product. It is the same as Cisco or Fortinet. But again, it's a matter of the performance itself, considering the reliability.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a six to seven out of ten.

I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

From an implementation perspective, it's easy. I rate it a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup, and ten is an easy setup. Regarding the customer experience after installation, taking into consideration the same aforementioned factors on a scale of one to ten, I rate it a six.

Speaking of the time taken for deployment, I would say the solution is controller-based, not ad hoc. The configuration is done centrally by the controller. Regarding deployment, it is not a matter of days since it depends on the number of access points. Specifically, if you are talking about something with more than forty to fifty access points, then it will take two to three days, and if more than that, it will take more days.

One technician and one engineer are needed for deployment.

Price-wise, they are trying to improve since they are going very fast with the research and development to improve speed. So, they are really good. But, I mean, they're trying to cope with the main leaders like Cisco and Ruckus. I would rate them something, like, eight to nine, on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The solution is on the expensive side.

I would tell those planning to use the solution to go for a PoC and to see whether it's for their requirement or not because Huawei, in large environments with large numbers of users, may have some issues, but in smaller environments, it will work fine. So if you are able to do a PoC, I would recommend going with it or trying it. Though I'm not a technical guy, I'm hearing from the technical team that there are certain features that you have to configure well regarding speed, rate limit, and all the stuff. So you have to take care of it. Also, you need to take care regarding the country and its regulations along with the dBi for the antenna and increase the values to satisfy customers.

Huawei Wireless has some issues compared to the other vendors in terms of stability and customer experience. Also, the number of tickets in Huawei is more than many other vendors like Juniper or Cisco.

I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.