Open-source alternative  ·  Wireless Management

Replace HPE Aruba Central with OpenWRT + OpenWISP.

OpenWRT for enterprise-grade wireless firmware with OpenWISP for centralised management, zero-touch provisioning, and network monitoring. Manages hundreds of APs. Self-hosted, no per-AP subscription.

You'd keep~R3 360 to ~R6 600/year

Current licence  ·  Wireless Management

HPE Aruba Central

~R3 360 – ~R6 600/yr

10-user estimate

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OpenWRT + OpenWISP

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R6 600/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. HPE Aruba Central's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Foundation

R3 360/yr

R28/user/month

Per AP

With OpenWRT + OpenWISP

Keep R3 360/yr

Advanced

R6 600/yr

R55/user/month

Per AP

With OpenWRT + OpenWISP

Keep R6 600/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

HPE Aruba Central grows around 10% per year on average. OpenWRT + OpenWISP hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR3kR6kR9kR12kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R11kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R-0.02M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

HPE Aruba CentralOpenWRT + OpenWISP, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other wireless management migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.