What is one key competitive advantage of Aruba AirWave over Cisco Prime?

Question

Options

• AAruba AirWave is cloud based, while Cisco Prime only offers on-premises management.
• BAruba AirWave integrates network access control, while Cisco Prime does not.
• CCisco Prime only supports Cisco, while Aruba AirWave offers multi-vendor support.
• DCisco Prime only offers single-server deployments, while Aruba offers larger deployments.

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  13% (3)
• C
  75% (18)
• D
  8% (2)

Explanation

C is correct because Aruba AirWave is designed from the ground up as a multi-vendor network management platform, capable of monitoring and managing devices from Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, and many others alongside Aruba hardware. Cisco Prime Infrastructure, by contrast, is built primarily for Cisco ecosystems and offers very limited support for third-party devices.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is backwards - AirWave is traditionally an on-premises solution, not cloud-based (Aruba's cloud platform is Central, not AirWave).
• B is inaccurate - Cisco Prime does integrate with Cisco ISE for network access control, so this isn't a meaningful differentiator.
• D is incorrect - Cisco Prime supports distributed/redundant deployments; single-server limitation is not a defining constraint of Prime.

Memory tip: Think "AirWave = Any Vendor Wave" - the whole value proposition of AirWave is that it can ride across any vendor's equipment, whereas Prime is a prime example of vendor lock-in (Cisco only). If you remember that AirWave was popular in mixed-vendor enterprise environments, option C becomes the obvious answer.

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