We performed a comparison between Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and Ruckus Wireless WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cisco, Ruckus and others in Wireless LAN."With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) is the ability to troubleshoot ports on the network. Additionally, when there is an update on the APs they are able to reboot quickly reducing downtime. Other solutions have a longer downtime when updates are done."
"The simplicity is great."
"In terms of reporting, in terms of all the user reports, it's very rich."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance."
"From a security perspective, this product has several advantages."
"The monitoring device enables you to see the network health."
"We use the solution's bandwidth shaping, URL filtering, and group policy configuration features."
"The most valuable features in Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN are that we were able to see all the registered users for each particular WAP, which is a big help. The roaming allows us to have continuous wireless throughout the building. The signal can carry over from one WAP to another. Which is probably the most important feature."
"The most valuable features include key elements like creating SSIDs, networking configurations, and the ability to manage all devices through a single console."
"It is easy to set up. You can do everything on the GUI. You don't need to trace cables. You don't need to connect to the switch. Everything is there, right in front of you."
"The primary value lies in the ease of configuration; these products seamlessly integrate, and work well together."
"The stability of the Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is very good."
"The stability provided is very nice."
"The performance of this solution is amazing in terms of radiofrequency technology."
"Scalability is a valuable feature."
"Ruckus Wireless WAN’s most valuable feature is unleashed."
"The solution is suitable for many types of environments, such as small businesses."
"The most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the coverage that it offers, and the reliability."
"The strongest point for Ruckus has always been the radio hardware."
"The analytic solution is good and should be improving further."
"The pricing is very high in the Indian market."
"I need a bit more time with it before criticizing the features."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location."
"It would be helpful to have even stronger security features to help protect against interference from other nearby access points that aren't part of our network."
"The solution is expensive."
"The price could be better."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"The pricing structure could be improved."
"The logging sometimes doesn't give us the granularity needed. Some of the rules are a bit more complicated. The switch ports on the routers are not individually addressable, in the sense that with a switch you can tell what MAC address is on what port but with the security appliances, you can't, which would be beneficial for troubleshooting."
"This solution could benefit from a heat mapping ability so that you can tell where the hotspots are, and where the good signals are."
"They're great. If there's anything that they need to change, it is just simplifying the site to which you go to make changes on the admin side."
"We're are not fully utilizing the features of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN to know a more in-depth analysis of what areas need to be improved. However, the security could improve. It would be a benefit to be able to lock out particular clients that are trying to connect from outside the building."
"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."
"Cisco offers pretty expensive devices."
"It is super expensive for what you get. I just wish it was less expensive."
"They could include a firewall feature in the next release but even there it's not really necessary"
"The solution's AI offering and pricing could be improved."
"Ruckus Wireless WAN we have a lot of component shortages in the world. This has impacted deliveries. We have large back orders of the solution."
"This product needs a point-to-point, bridge solution."
"I would like to have a better built-in reporting feature."
"The solution could use a better user interface."
"Pricing could be improved in Ruckus Wireless WAN because obviously, everybody wants things to become cheaper. Another room for improvement in the product is from a delivery perspective, particularly the heavy delivery delays because of the chip shortage that a lot of manufacturers have to deal with. The chip shortage is not coming to an end, but Ruckus Networks has to make a plan because the ETA has slipped out from the average of three months on switches to fourteen months, which is very, very rough on the industry at the moment. Ruckus Wireless WAN could lose business to Chinese competitors, for example, HTC has a good wireless solution that I haven't tested yet, other than on POC, and it works great. I haven't yet experienced the HTC wireless solution in large deployments, so you never know how it's going to go, but HTC has managed to circumvent the chip shortage, so the ETA provided by HTC is much more preferred than the ETAs provided by Ruckus Networks, Cisco, and Aruba products."
"Really, it's just about centralizing manageability across multiple sites, but like I said, that's me commenting on the old product that we've got. I know they've addressed that now with cloud controllers, but that would've been my main thing."
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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is ranked 4th in Wireless LAN with 115 reviews while Ruckus Wireless WAN is ranked 2nd in Wireless WAN with 45 reviews. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is rated 8.2, while Ruckus Wireless WAN is rated 8.2. 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 WAN writes " Offers robust outdoor connectivity, but signal strength and support need improvement". Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti Wireless, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Wireless, whereas Ruckus Wireless WAN is most compared with Ubiquiti Wireless and Cambium Networks Wireless WAN.
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