Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Ruckus Wireless compete in the wireless networking solutions category, with each offering distinct capabilities. Cisco Meraki has the upper hand due to its strong cloud management features appealing to organizations needing simplified remote access.
Features: Cisco Meraki is known for centralized cloud management, ease of deployment, and user-friendliness. Its dashboard provides visibility and control, ideal for IT staff with basic wireless needs. Ruckus Wireless offers high-performance adaptive antenna technology, robust client density management, and sophisticated access controls, making it reliable in challenging environments.
Room for Improvement: Cisco Meraki could enhance advanced features to attract enterprises seeking more granular control and offer more competitive pricing. Ruckus Wireless might expand its lower-end product range and streamline the cloud controller interface. It could also improve pricing transparency and technical support responsiveness.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Meraki excels in customer service with a centralized dashboard and quick support responses, suitable for diverse deployment environments. Ruckus Wireless, generally on-premises, provides responsive support but its cloud service could improve to match this reliability.
Pricing and ROI: Cisco Meraki is praised for its pricing tied to hardware costs, providing ease of use, although some consider it high. Ruckus Wireless is seen as cost-effective, offering competitive pricing per feature, reducing overall project costs due to fewer APs needed. Both demonstrate positive ROI with Meraki's analytics and remote management and Ruckus's high-performance networking.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Ruckus Wireless | 14.0% |
| Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN | 11.6% |
| Other | 74.4% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 68 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 26 |
| Large Enterprise | 31 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 69 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 20 |
| Large Enterprise | 25 |
Ruckus Wireless is part of Ruckus Networks/Commscope and provides reliable wireless network solutions and services to large venues, schools, hotels, hospitals, malls, and public spaces (and more) worldwide.
Wireless access is an integral necessary part of today’s modern, fast-paced lifestyle. It is essential that dependable, safe wireless capabilities be available in most of today’s largely populated public spaces. Ruckus Wireless is the trusted industry leader in assisting organizations of all sizes to provide wireless access throughout their locations, both inside their physical structures and adjacent open outdoor areas.
Ruckus Wireless empowers users to design and create a wireless network across their organizational space to ensure that wireless coverage is available consistently to anyone who needs it. Ruckus can handle anything from homes and small to medium-sized businesses to hospitals, college campuses, airports, malls, stadiums and more. Ruckus also has excellent options for outdoor wireless networks. Many users choose Ruckus Wireless for broad extensive outdoor use. The solution offers excellent durable outdoor access points and a very robust, super fast, reliable Wi-Fi. Each and every access point is very powerful, and the outdoor access points can be very easily disguised to keep the network secure.
Another strong point is that Ruckus technology is based on frequencies. If there is ever any type of wireless interference, Ruckus Wireless can change frequency automatically so there are never any interruptions. Users also have the option to block outside access points and signals that may interfere with their network and make their network the only one that people can see within the network. Users can additionally whitelist certain networks if desired.
Ruckus uses the latest next-gen Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 6, ensuring that more devices can be handled with greater speed and continuity. With Ruckus, users have great control over network traffic. They can also allocate the amount of bandwidth network users are granted based on their status - eg., guest, corporate, etc. - and give users priority on the network based on their status. Ruckus also has mesh and beamforming capabilities, which are recognized as a valued feature for many users.
Ruckus Wireless is robust, extremely reliable, very easy to deploy, and offers amazing coverage and rock solid connectivity. It is very easy to add additional access points across the network. Ruckus Wireless is very easy to use and manage using an app on any mobile device.
Reviews from Real Users
A Director Engineering & New Business at a comms service provider says Ruckus “provides superior coverage and is very dependable”
Sintayehu A., Director Of Information Communication Technology at Dire Dawa University, relates that "Ruckus Wireless supports the most recent technologies. We can trace every individual and what kind of traffic they're using on our campus. It is very helpful."
Philip S., Independent Consultant - Wireless, says, "The solution is very stable. I've worked with it at a hospital before, where we deployed it all over the hospital. It worked everywhere and continuously worked flawlessly."
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