Ekahau Site Survey vs RedSeal comparison

"It's easy to plot APs and generate reports."

"The most valuable feature of Ekahau Site Survey is the predictive survey."

"We are satisfied with the way this product is working."

"Ekahau lets you create heat maps without doing the initial survey. It makes the task easier."

"It is a stable solution."

"The OEM dashboard has a lot of useful features to troubleshoot the Wi-Fi."

"Ekahau Site Survey is user-friendly."

"Ekahau Site Survey is an easy and accurate solution."

"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."

"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."

"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."

"Our CTO was not real happy with their support."

"In all of our buildings, whenever we deploy wireless access points, we also have to deploy wireless intrusion detections. The Ekahau Site Survey tool doesn't allow us to differentiate between the access point and the intrusion detection device. That's because they're the same devices, but they're configured differently for the type of usage. That's one area that I would ask them to improve. They should allow the identification of access points versus wireless intrusion detection."

"The only issue is the price. The overall price is a bit high, especially compared to our other vendor. Ekahau is considered expensive."

"It would be better if it provided clear visibility. It would be better if it accommodated large physical sites like a warehouse with a ceiling height of more than twelve to fifteen feet. In such situations, we were unable to provide better coverage."

"Sometimes there is a cancellation between two signals that the solution is not able to monitor correctly, this could improve in the future."

"I find the power button hard to access with just one hand."

"We were actually able to recover some access points in some areas that were over saturated. So I I can leave at least two areas where we probably had twice as many access points as we needed to. So we actually redesigned it and pulled some of those access points where I don't know that there was any proper planning done when they were initially deployed. It was before my time, but it just seemed way over saturated, and they were all beaten on each other. So Site wasn't helping. It was probably hurting, and we saved equipment that we could then deploy somewhere else. This can be improved."

"I wish there were a competitor to keep Ekahau Site Survey's pricing in line, but there's none."

"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."

"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."

"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."

"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."

"We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000."

"Since we are an academic institute, we get better prices and discounts from Cisco, but not Ekahau."

"The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it"

"The solution is priced fairly for the features that you receive."

"I believe that it is approximately $2,000 per year for us. I know we pay for it on an annual basis."

"The pricing is high."

"This solution is not cheap. If you only need an occasional site survey, you are better off contracting a wireless engineering professional that has one."

"The licenses are a little pricey compared to iBwave, etc."

"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."