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.
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Marvis, the AI-driven network management system."
"The emailing of statuses is the most valuable feature."
"Cloud management, wireless infrastructure, and implementation are all valuable features."
"It is cloud-based. It has a GUI rather than a command line, and it just works."
"The most valuable features include key elements like creating SSIDs, networking configurations, and the ability to manage all devices through a single console."
"The automatic VMware update is very useful because you don't have to worry about outages and planning for VMware updates. It is very advantageous from a management point of view. The ability to restrict and review the clients connected to each of our segments. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"The tool's most valuable feature is report generation. Its dashboard helps me a lot with user analytics."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The primary value lies in the ease of configuration; these products seamlessly integrate, and work well together."
"Tremendous throughput and easy installation, configuration, and monitoring."
"Ruckus features a centralized architecture solution with ultrasound technology, which helps us with communication and roaming."
"I'm not on the technical side, so I personally haven't configured Ruckus Wireless. We've got some staff that manages that for us. But if I had to say a most valuable feature from my perspective, it would maybe be Ruckus Analytics."
"It's reliable wireless equipment."
"Ruckus Wireless provides good coverage."
"I can manage the network through a cell phone, which is a plus from my side. I am also able to visualize the network. I can also check the quality of the signal for different clients that are currently connected and see whether the quality is excellent, moderate, or poor. Sometimes, I can even adjust the signal strength."
"Good connection quality."
"It's stable."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"The solution is expensive."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) could improve if the MIST platform had a built-in master key. This would be an advantage."
"If there are advanced features that you can have enabled, they should allow users access to that in an easier manner."
"The initial setup could be made easier."
"The throughput of the switches for wireless could be improved."
"I would like to see Cisco Meraki improve the accessibility by region level here in Latin America."
"Cisco offers pretty expensive devices."
"Technical support can be improved, as well as having more detailed capabilities to go without using an API."
"When we are using SSID roaming, it is not flexible in terms of which AP it connects to."
"It lags a bit in providing reports for Wi-Fi performance."
"Ruckus should have an option to migrate existing licenses from an old controller to a new purchase; presently, this is not possible."
"Lacks some analytics features in the control itself."
"The product is very expensive."
"The pricing of the product can be a bit expensive. They should work on making pricing more competitive."
"Some customers have issues with the price because it's more expensive than Ubiquiti, but they can accept the cost because it's reliable and has more features."
"In the last year, there's been a significant price jump, but I think Ruckus Wireless is still a good value for the money."
"Its security can be improved. It doesn't use Wireless IPS. Therefore, we have to combine WatchGuard that uses a Wireless IPS but is a separate solution. These two solutions work in conjunction. We are using the WatchGuard as a sensor and Wireless IPS, and Ruckus is like a platform that is used for the connectivity of the network."
"There is some strain with Ruckus because of various buyouts involving the company used for data centers and the cluster."
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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is ranked 4th in Wireless LAN with 115 reviews while Ruckus Wireless is ranked 3rd in Wireless LAN with 96 reviews. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is rated 8.2, while Ruckus Wireless is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN writes "Offers good mobility, stability and scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ruckus Wireless writes "Great wireless, good reliability, and excellent connectivity". Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ubiquiti Wireless, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco Wireless and Huawei Wireless, whereas Ruckus Wireless is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, Ubiquiti WLAN, ExtremeWireless and Omada Access Points. See our Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN vs. Ruckus Wireless report.
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