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Re: shopping mall want's wifi We where on the newest firmware at the time. It worked fine operationally, its just when comparing apples to apples with ease of use, features, and primarily multiple remote site manageability meraki was a pretty easy choice. If the ruckus controller dies, new clients cant authenticate, even with open ssid. If meraki cant reach the cloud controller, they continue to function locally just fine. Also For example we will have 4 sites with meraki by year end, and could be ~100 in the next 5 years. If i want to make any kind of changes (ssid, splash page, ect) i can go to 1 place on the meraki dashboard, make the change, then have it roll them out to all 100 sites, instead of touching 100 different controllers at 100 sites.
Meraki has what i call "forced maintenance", but with that you get the cloud controller, NBD replacement, and all software updates. The ap's will actually continue to run without the cloud, but you just cant manage them anymore, obviously not really an option. We did a 10 year deal with them do not have to worry about it, even though the cloud license isnt tied to a specific AP/Model so we could actually go to 802.11ac in 5 years and just have to by the ap's, not have to buy another "controller" or pay the cloud fee again.
Meraki has similar quick setup, hell you can actually preconfigue the ap's in the dashboard once you have the order number, before the ap's even arrive at your door. Plug them in when they do, they pull down the config, and your up and going.
Again im not against ruckus, and from my testing their ap's do perform better at lower signal levels than meraki does, but when factoring everything in Meraki was just a better fit. Not to mention they played ball in pricing much better than ruckus was going to, so we obviously didnt pay list price.
Meraki has an easy process for free eval gear so if you want a contact let me know. | |
 vipermCarpe DiemPremium
join:2002-07-09
Winchester, CA
1 edit | No big deal I understand thats one thing I brought up to them as well not being able to authenticate but then again I have not had a controller go down yet (knock on wood)
If you want to control other sites remotely they have other controllers that allow that then all authenticate and get updated from one central point
Not sure about what pricing you were getting but as a Dealer I get pretty good pricing and if its for a Gov agency, school or medical facility its even more off retail.
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| said by viperm:No big deal I understand thats one thing I brought up to them as well not being able to authenticate but then again I have not had a controller go down yet (knock on wood)
If you want to control other sites remotely they have other controllers that allow that then all authenticate and get updated from one central point.
Not sure about what pricing you were getting but as a Dealer I get pretty good pricing and if its for a Gov agency, school or medical facility its 50% off retail.
We looked at a central controller, but same issue, it goes down, no one can get online. Plus the fact they said the remote ones had to have very good latency (something like over 100ms may be too high and associations may time out). We looked at becomming our own dealer with ruckus, but there was a good amount of hoops to jump through. We buy from meraki direct, and our discounts are good. | |
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