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 most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence."
"The solution is pretty generic and easy to use."
"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."
"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment."
"The solution is stable."
"With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."
"The artificial intelligence feature is very good."
"It is very handy to have a support number to call."
"It enables quick deployment within all branches for the users."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"Cloud management, wireless infrastructure, and implementation are all valuable features."
"It makes the process much easier by providing visibility and centralized control over the network."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN are the ease of use and the ability to manage it from the cloud."
"We rarely encounter any issues. The solutions have been very stable."
"The management and upgrades are very simple and straightforward."
"Stability has been very good. It is reliable."
"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."
"It's easy to install, and the management is flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Ruckus Wireless is its exceptional performance and reliability. The signal is highly reliable. We have not received a single complaint in the past year, which is a marked improvement from our prior equipment."
"Because of Zero-IT, it is easier to get people connected to the correct SSID without providing a passphrase."
"The speed between client to client is really nice. It is better than any other vendor, but officially, I cannot say that to people."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The smart antenna is very good."
"Juniper Wireless AP can improve by continually improving its reporting and integration with other systems."
"Improvement is needed in the user-friendliness of Juniper Mist, particularly in enhancing the interaction with AI features."
"The price could be better."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation."
"They should include SD-WAN features to it."
"Enrolling into the tool is a tedious process."
"The pricing should be made cheaper."
"Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement."
"It lags a bit in providing reports for Wi-Fi performance."
"We have used technical support for some issues but not many times."
"The biggest pain point is that they limit you through firewall throughput. I understand why they do it, but that really grates me. For instance, for 450 Mbps throughput, you're looking at £800 for a router, whereas if you look at the one gig connection, for some of us are lucky enough to have a gig connection, you could almost be spending £3,000 for the option to have one gig connectivity. That's one of the pain points I've got. I don't mind paying for throughput, but I should at least have the option to be able to update that throughput, maybe through extra licensing or something else. It is crazy expensive to jump through to the next one."
"The cost of the devices and the solution itself could be more competitive."
"In the future, I would like to see IP telephony in Saudi Arabia."
"The only concern is when the license has expired and it will no longer function, the entire network goes down, without any notification, or warning."
"Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN's management tools need enhancement."
"Cisco Meraki must improve the integration between its own family of products."
"The switching could be improved. The active component requires a data center. Cisco and HPE have a complete solution for data centers. Ruckus has a core solution, but the data center aspect needs to be improved."
"The pricing needs to be more clear and licensing could be less expensive."
"Their support has been lacking a little bit and needs to be improved. I have had a ticket open for a month, and it is really hard to get a resolution out of them. They haven't really come out with anything that is much of an improvement in a long time. It has mostly just been fixes and things like that. We used to have a ZoneDirector or a physical controller for the wireless network, and that was kind of end of life. It was very old, and at the time, we were expanding the wireless network, and we didn't want to rely on one piece of hardware that was pretty old. So, we went to SmartZone Cluster, which has two VMs in a cluster. Unfortunately, we lost the feature ability for guest networks and other things that we were using before, and Ruckus just kind of told us that they weren't supporting that feature in the newer product, which is not really great. I was told initially that SmartZone was an upgrade to ZoneDirector. It is the logical thing to think that it is going to have all the same features, but it didn't. The issue that we have right now is onboarding BYOD devices. It is not really great for us, and we're looking for a new product to make that easier. We did have Cloudpath, which was a product that Ruckus purchased from another company that was an onboarding solution, but it just didn't really work very well for us. So, we discontinued using it, and it actually created more confusion for people. They should make BYOD or guest network portals a lot easier and better. In some areas, we have been having issues because there are just so many WAPs that are so close that we had to manually turn down the radio of power because the automatic feature of the AP wasn't really doing it right. It should also have a little bit better RF analysis capability to be able to see on the controller side. The front end for our staff, students, and guests has also not been quite as good as we had hoped."
"I would like to see more location-based services on the Smart Cell Insight on access points."
"I think it would be nice if Ruckus offered the option of a cloud interface for easy configuration of Ruckus Wireless."
"They could add more flexibility for switching over to another radio if a radio is poor. I am not able to change the radios from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz. I am yet to figure it out. I want it to be a bit more explicit or a bit easier to change radios. When you shut it down, you lose some of the information. It would be good to have a controller where I can store the information, and later on, I can retrieve the information. There should be some form of small storage to keep the information. Its price should also be improved. Its price is currently quite high."
"They need more products in the lower-end range for smaller clients."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a more detailed spectrum analysis."
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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 97 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, Omada Access Points and ExtremeWireless. See our Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN vs. Ruckus Wireless report.
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