Open-source alternative  ·  Network Access Control

Replace HPE Aruba ClearPass with PacketFence.

Open source NAC with 802.1X, RADIUS, VLAN assignment, captive portal, BYOD onboarding, and compliance enforcement. Integrates with Active Directory. Self-hosted, no per-device licensing.

You'd keep~R5 520 to ~R11 160/year

Current licence  ·  Network Access Control

HPE Aruba ClearPass

~R5 520 – ~R11 160/yr

10-user estimate

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PacketFence

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R11 160/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. HPE Aruba ClearPass's prices.

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

Standard

R5 520/yr

R46/user/month

Per endpoint

With PacketFence

Keep R5 520/yr

Enterprise

R11 160/yr

R93/user/month

Per endpoint

With PacketFence

Keep R11 160/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 ClearPass grows around 10% per year on average. PacketFence hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR5kR10kR15kR19kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R18kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.01M

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

How this migration runs

HPE Aruba ClearPassPacketFence, 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.

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