Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar offers scalability, centralization, and redundancy enabling robust management. Users appreciate the Captive Portal, Spectrum Monitor, and CLI alongside advanced features like AAA with Radius, QoS, and built-in site-survey tools. Its software-defined controller surpasses hardware alternatives, providing ease and quality. It excels in BYOD integration, offers cost-effective deployment, seamless VLAN mapping with ALE switches, perpetual OmniVista licenses, straightforward setup, and architectural distribution, outperforming competitors like Cisco in user capacity, performance, and pricing.
- "There is a definite ROI with this product, as it creates a baseline of technology that will be a means to grow in five to ten years from now, making the solution an investment in the installation of that baseline."
- "With these three types, Alcatel-Lucent can give the client a range of solutions within budget of each, and still guarantee the quality of the solution."
- "OmniAccess Stellar AP1230 Series is better than CISCO highest model Aironet 3800i AP in terms of quality, user capacity, coverage, performance and price."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar requires enhancements in configuration simplification and maintenance software OmniVista 3600. Improvements are needed for GUI speed, packet processing, and Mac/iOS access. Integration with third-party systems and support for multi-vendor interoperability are lacking. Guest network setup is complex and requires more automation. The radio management side needs advancements for large deployments. Integrated features like heat maps and better third-party software compatibility are requested, along with a preference for on-premises hardware architecture.
- "It needs to be faster in order to process and transmit bigger packets."
- "I’d rate this product as an eight out of 10 because it is not accessible to everyone to take 100% advantage of the product."
- "Yes, some issues are related to firmware bugs or firmware instability."
