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We performed a comparison between Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and iBwave Wi-Fi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"You can easily monitor, manage, and cover all your IT equipment.""The AI capabilities of Mist Wireless are superior to other OEMs.""The most useful feature of Juniper Wireless AP is the reporting Marvis.""The solution is very secure.""The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence.""Overall, we've been very pleased with the performance.""It provides private network access, helping us protect our company’s devices.""With Mist, every Wednesday they roll out new features."

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"It's a stable product.""Cloud management, wireless infrastructure, and implementation are all valuable features.""The management console is valuable.""The emailing of statuses is the most valuable feature.""The solution is easy to use.""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.""It's easy to manage and provides a clear network view, allowing efficient navigation down to the network details.""The product's cloud controller is easy to use."

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"The 3D Coverage is a good feature that shows the signal propagation in three dimensions.""iBwave Wi-Fi's tech support is great. They pick up their phones. I have no complaints.""It can speed up design.""Compared to other tools, iBwave Wi-Fi provides 95% accuracy and generates heatmaps.""I find the high-quality Heatmap generation, multi-floor, and wire mapping features to be most valuable.""The solution's 3D imaging is amazing.""The stability and feature set of the application are top notch and can't be matched."

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Cons
"The product should include adaptive Wi-Fi to show a more accurate location.""There is room for improvement in terms of support and installation.""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.""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 pricing should be made cheaper.""Juniper Mist Wireless Access Points’ support services need improvement.""Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release."

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"In a future release, they should offer a next-generation UTM, where you can manage all items and the network, and have it include a lot of security features like fingerprinting functionality.""The initial setup of the solution can be improved and made easier.""It would be nice to have licensing that stays in place while the system is being renovated or changed.""In the future, I would like to see IP telephony in Saudi Arabia.""The way Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN groups certain things, as far as the devices for either monitoring and or configuring them should be done better. They should be grouped a little bit differently because if I want to configure something, a different setting on an SSID, I have to go to their specific area where I would have thought it should be clumped as a dropdown menu in another area.""There needs to be some work done on security because, with time, some viruses may emerge that one may not know about.""The wireless infrastructure scalability has room for improvement.""Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN's management tools need enhancement."

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"I would like to be able to see two buildings at the same time so that you can create a campus view.""iBwave Wi-Fi doesn't have a distributor feed platform.""The cost of the solution could be improved. It's extraordinarily expensive.""It would be good if we could involve a visual while designing the backhaul.""Areas of improvement would include more functionality in the Mobile App, expanded reporting features, and some shortcut features.""It would do iBwave well to become more involved with their clients.""I am currently looking for an alternative due to my reluctance with the reliability of this product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We pay maybe 1000 SEK per year, per access point."
  • "Juniper Wireless AP's price is a little more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
  • "The pricing is something Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series) can work on. The pricing is very high compared to the competition."
  • "The pricing is too high."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "I rate Juniper Mist's pricing a ten out of ten since it is expensive."
  • "I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The pricing is fair."
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  • "Negotiate the deal put in front of you!"
  • "At this price point, I would not mind seeing a four-way channel, instead of a 3x3 or a 4x4, like they do in the Cisco Aironet system with their other brand. For the same price point in this other Cisco brand, it is a lot cheaper, and you can get a slightly better throughput than you can with these."
  • "​If you are wondering if Meraki can work for you, contact one of their representatives because they will do onsite trials where you can set up their system. If it does not work, you can send it back to them for no charge.​​"
  • "The price is negotiable."
  • "It's a pretty good value, but not great. Pricing is on a yearly basis for the Meraki solution."
  • "The price is good, but it could be improved."
  • "You have to renew your contract every year, or for three or for five years. If you do not pay right away they will suspend your subscription."
  • "The pricing is based on a subscription and is a bit high at the moment."
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  • "I advise others to treat the cost as you would any tooling cost and use the monthly option as needed."
  • "The solution's pricing is cheap."
  • "iBwave Wi-Fi is an expensive solution, but it is worth the cost."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Juniper Mist is the Virtual Network Assistant, powered by artificial intelligence.
    Top Answer:Juniper Mist is very reasonable in terms of pricing, especially when compared to competitors like Cisco.
    Top Answer:Improving third-party integration is key for Juniper Mist's next release. Better control over devices from vendors like… more »
    Top Answer:Depends.  I have personally used both Cisco and Aruba so I am familiar with them.  Extreme I am not, so unless they have… more »
    Top Answer:Cisco Wireless is very robust, very rugged, and can handle indoor and outdoor coverage extremely well. We found it to be… more »
    Top Answer:Cisco’s Meraki Virtual MX is a virtual instance of the Meraki SD-WAN appliance. We liked the Meraki. The Wifi APs are a… more »
    Top Answer:Compared to other tools, iBwave Wi-Fi provides 95% accuracy and generates heatmaps.
    Top Answer:iBwave Wi-Fi is an expensive solution, but it is worth the cost.
    Top Answer:It would be good if we could involve a visual while designing the backhaul.
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    Also Known As
    Juniper Wireless Access Points (AP Series), Mist Access Points
    MR18, MR26, MR32, MR34, MR66, MR72, Meraki Wireless LAN, Meraki WLAN
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    Overview

    Juniper Wireless Access Points work in conjunction with Juniper Mist Cloud Services and Mist AI to deliver premier wireless access capabilities. The Juniper Mist Edge extends microservices to the campus to bring agility and scale while enabling new applications at the edge.

    Cisco Meraki access points are built from the highest grade components and carefully optimized for a seamless user experience. The outcome: faster connections, greater user capacity, more coverage, and fewer support calls. The Cisco Meraki dashboard gives visibility into the network users, their devices, and their applications. Armed with rich analytics, administrators can quickly create access control and application usage policies, optimizing both the end-user experience and network security.

    iBwave has been the industry standard software for designing indoor wireless network for over 13 years. Used by hundreds of operators, OEMs, enterprises and system integrators around the world. The iBwave Wi-Fi Suite is a powerful Wi-Fi network design solution that gives you a significantly more productive way to design carrier-grade indoor Wi-Fi networks. Consisting of a mobile app, a powerful PC based software and 10GB of cloud connectivity to easily share and synchronize project information.

    Key Features include:

    • Advanced 3D Predictive design
    • Advanced capacity planning
    • Calibrated prediction for extremely accurate prediction results
    • Ability to model incline surfaces
    • Comprehensive reporting
    • Cloud connectivity to easily share and access projects anytime
    • Free read-only project viewer for customers and project partners

    Sample Customers
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    Advanced Medical Transport, Banco de Guayaquil, Baylor Scott & White Health, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, Calligaris, Children's Hospital Colorado, City of Biel, Del Papa Distributing, Department of Justice, Dimension Data, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS), Hertz, K&L Gates , LightEdge, Lone Star College System, Management Science Associates, Mindtree, NBC Olympics, Quest, Sony Corporation, The Department of Education in Western Australia, Valley Proteins
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    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is ranked 4th in Wireless LAN with 115 reviews while iBwave Wi-Fi is ranked 3rd in Network Modeling and Simulation with 11 reviews. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is rated 8.2, while iBwave Wi-Fi is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN writes "Offers good mobility, stability and scalability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of iBwave Wi-Fi writes "Feature-rich, excellent tool". Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is most compared with Aruba Wireless, Ruckus Wireless, Ubiquiti Wireless, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Wireless, whereas iBwave Wi-Fi is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, AirMagnet Survey and RedSeal.

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