We looked into Aruba and Cisco. However, Ruckus has the upper hand in terms of advanced Wi-Fi features. It has got a highly customizable controller to meet our flexible Wi-Fi requirements.

I have used Meraki, Aruba, and D-Link. We work with different products. We often choose the solution that provides the best price for the specifications we require.

Normally, here in Medellín, Columbia where we work, the clients consider Ubiquiti or TP-Link first because they're cheaper. 

We have tried many products and ultimately decided on Ruckus. We looked at Cisco, Meraki, and Aruba. 

Many of our customers also test and evaluate the analytics of Meraki. Analytics is very important to our customers. Ruckus has the ability to connect and get analytics, but you need to pay for that. With other platforms, we can get a lot of information for free. With Meraki, you need to pay for a license on a year-to-year basis.

We did not evaluate other options as our previous experience using Ruckus was positive.

I'm still considering other platforms.

Ruckus has a very specific niche and is surely not the cheapest solution. You have to have customers that are willing to spend that kind of money. If they are willing, then it's a really good solution.

If you want to deliver a very good and reliable network, don't introduce Meraki. I would go with Ruckus.

We continually monitor the competition. In enterprise WiFi there are about 4 or 5 contenders from my point of view. In the past Ruckus did not have a cloud management solution and that was an issue. Now it's not an issue.

The school is at a point where they either have to expand their Ruckus system or instead replace it entirely with one from Cisco. However, given the money that they've got invested in Ruckess equipment, I don't know that replacing it is a prudent choice.

We sell both Ruckus and Aruba. Aruba is more complicated to use and less reliable than Ruckus, but it's also much less expensive. When we're quoting prices, we'll send the customer two quotations, one for Ruckus and one for Aruba. So for example, if a project costs $2,000 with Aruba, the same project will cost around $3,200 or $3,500 with Ruckus. It is very difficult to convince the customer to choose Ruckus because of the price. 

Before choosing this solution, we analyzed other products such as Cisco's Meraki. We looked at a few other potential products as well, however, I cannot recall what they were at this time. 

Cisco Meraki and Cisco.

Before settling on Ruckus we evaluated every big tender. One of our main competitors is the HP network, as well as Cisco. 

Just about everything out there. It was between Ruckus and Aerohive, but ultimately, Ruckus BeamFlex performed better with our testing (fewer APs needed, worked around obstacles in changing warehouse environments, supported high density).

We have looked at Aruba and Cisco as well as ExtremeWireless and compared them all to Ruckus.

In the first implementation, we did recently, the client decided to implement the Ruckus without any comparison with other solutions.

In the second implementation, we had an evaluation done and we looked at Fortinet. The client decided to implement Ruckus over Fortinet. The decision was mainly based on the different pricing between the two options and the need for access points with Ruckus. With Ruckus, we needed fewer appliances in order to bring the same coverage that Fortinet offered, for example.

I have evaluated Arista and Aruba.

We also looked at Cisco and Aruba but Ruckus pricing was better. 

Aruba, Meraki - and this was Meraki before Cisco, at the time. But since then we always look to see what else is out there, see if something's better, and so far we haven't found anything. Once something better comes along, we'll use it because we only want to use the best for our clients.

Our clients evaluate Ubiquiti and Aruba Instant On. Both these solutions are designed for small businesses. They are good for small businesses in terms of cost and capabilities. They have very few capabilities as compared to Ruckus Wireless, but they are very good for small businesses. Ruckus Wireless also has a better connection capacity than other brands. Ruckus Wireless is suitable for medium or large companies, and Ubiquiti and Aruba Instant On are suitable for small companies.

We looked at other vendors, and I think Ruckus Wireless offered a larger range.

With respect to our internal network, we are still using one as a control and testing the system to see if it's going to give us the solution we want.

We thoroughly tested every wireless access point on the market to ensure the success of our deployments. We intentionally selected Ruckus Wireless as our product of choice due to its robust capabilities, antennae array, ZoneDirector controller system, and support. While they were not the cheapest products on the market, they were ideally designed for the harsh WiFi conditions in which we needed them to function.

We have prior experience with Aruba Wireless.