We performed a comparison between Cisco Meraki Wireless and Ruckus Wireless based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ruckus Wireless has an edge over Cisco Meraki Wireless in this comparison. It is easy to deploy and high performing. In addition, Ruckus Wireless has an impressive ROI and is less expensive than Cisco Meraki Wireless.
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The simplicity is great."
"You can scale the solution easily."
"From a security perspective, this product has several advantages."
"Meraki WLAN is easy to deploy, includes a cloud controller, and updates continuously. It also offers high visibility."
"It is very stable, very resilient, and very robust."
"The solution is trustworthy. I find it easy and secure."
"There are many valuable features of Cisco Meraki, including the switches, stacking, and layer 3 routing."
"Allows for cloud-based management of your Wi-Fi network."
"The emailing of statuses is the most valuable feature."
"The beamforming has been the most valuable aspect of the solution for our organization."
"I like the price and its capacity."
"The solution provides superior coverage."
"Ruckus Wireless is more of a plain Wi-Fi solution where it does the basic job well. Additionally, it has good conductivity, easy to use, simple to manage, and its access points can be used as standalone devices which gives flexibility in the SMB market."
"The product has some very awesome patents on their radios and their antennas and antenna patterns and how their signaling works. That's why nobody can touch them. If they go head to head with anybody."
"Performance-wise, it's great."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is reliable."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"If you want to do more specific stuff, it's a bit limited."
"We would like the solution to work on the pricing of the solution. It would be ideal if it could bring the overall costs down."
"It would be better if they enable full integration with Cisco's cloud-based network in the next release."
"They should introduce a grace period of 60 days after license expiry because as it is now, it automatically goes down and there is no grace period."
"There should be better Spanish-language technical support."
"Our only concern at this stage is how it's licensed."
"Its price should be reduced."
"Concern when there are a number of concurrent users."
"It is expensive. Juniper seems to have a lot more to offer for future expansion. Juniper has some features that are not there in this solution."
"We would like to see a better licensing model for our customers."
"There is some strain with Ruckus because of various buyouts involving the company used for data centers and the cluster."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to see more location-based services on the Smart Cell Insight on access points."
"I would like to see this product made a little more economical because it's very expensive."
"The software should be made more stable."
"They lack in some hardware stratification."
"It would be better if there were more visibility on the cloud. We have some lack of visibility because of wireless interference, and you have to do some troubleshooting for the packet capture. They have a built-in packet capture, and we can monitor the application. You can see all things over the cloud. They also provide an on-premise solution, so they need to improve the on-premise version and ensure an output with more visibility. Live monitoring in a live environment should be good. What is happening with wireless is that the wireless client is not connected due to interference, and there should be a shield zone on their wireless cloud. If they give us more features on both Ruckus Cloud or on-premises, that will be best. Nowadays, security is more important for everyone using wireless technology. If they implement a little bit of reduction and prevention features for some packets on the wireless cloud, some features like web filtering and some prevention for blocking will be good for the network."
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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is ranked 2nd in Wireless LAN with 60 reviews while Ruckus Wireless is ranked 4th in Wireless LAN with 45 reviews. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is rated 8.0, while Ruckus Wireless is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN writes "Highly reliable, effective site blocking, and beneficial reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ruckus Wireless writes "Great performance, easy to set up and simple to configure". Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ubiquiti Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Mist AI and Cloud and Fortinet FortiWLM, whereas Ruckus Wireless is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, ExtremeWireless, Fortinet FortiWLM and Aruba Instant. See our Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN vs. Ruckus Wireless report.
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