Ruckus Wireless Scalability
It is highly scalable and can be done in virtual machine environments with scalable resources.
View full review »The tool is scalable. We have 2000 to 2500 users. We have three people on the technical team.
View full review »It provides excellent scalability capabilities. I would rate it nine out of ten. Our clientele includes large corporations, multi-dwelling units, and student accommodations. We are currently in the process of deploying over 29 student accommodation buildings, totaling over 4,000 access points. Additionally, we manage properties such as malls, with approximately 1,000 access points, as well as smaller tenants with around 110 to 100 access points each. In total, our projected portfolio for the next two years encompasses approximately 5,000 access points under our management.
Buyer's Guide
Ruckus Wireless
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Ruckus Wireless. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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Tim Cummings
Systems Engineer at JUHSD
It is scalable. It seemed pretty easy to scale. We went from having 25 to 350 devices, and it wasn't too difficult. The hardest part is just getting them in the physical location.
In terms of the number of users, it could potentially be up to 4,000 people. When we had full normal school going on, we were seeing somewhere around 1,900 clients a day on average.
View full review »Ruckus Wireless is very scalable. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Anyone can access Ruckus Wi-Fi services whenever they receive the Ruckus Wi-Fi signal nearby, as the access points are operational 24/7, 365 days a year.
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Terah Kaggwa
Technical manager at Djamboree
It's scalable with a very good range. On the deployment, I have a hotspot with about maybe 2,0000 users every day. I also used it in some enterprises and homes as standard stand alone units.
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Braden Timmermann
Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have never had a WAP fail in the four years we’ve been using Ruckus in the enterprise; the reliability is top-notch.
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Housni Hammoud
Coordinator of the IT Department at College Notre-Dame
We haven't had any issues with the scalability.
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Jean-MarcANDRE
CEO at Baconmill
We have more than 100 customers currently using Ruckus Wireless in our business area. So, I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.
It is a very scalable product.
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Andres Echeverry
Director General at INNOVAR IT SAS
Up until 25 access points, things are very simple. When you get to more than 25 access points, you need a controller and it is sometimes an issue for clients because they generally don't want to spend more buying the controller.
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Tim Brumbaugh
Solutions Architect at Golden West Technologies
The solution is extremely scalable. I can have up to three controllers with each one housing 10,000 APS. I can have a cluster of controllers controlling 30,000 different APS. I don't have anything that big. One is close to a thousand and that's the biggest I have. Still, it's nice to be able to build in more redundancy.
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Tim Brumbaugh
Solutions Architect at Golden West Technologies
The solution is very scalable. I can have up to three controllers, each one housing 10,000 APs. Therefore, I can have a cluster of controllers controlling 30,000 different APs. I don't have anything that big. The closest one is close to 1000, however, still, it's nice to be able to have redundancy. I can build in more redundancy if I need to.
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reviewer1254228
Networks Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Though the solution is scalable, our company does not use the scalability options provided by the tool.
My company mostly caters to the needs of our clients, consisting of hundreds of people who mostly want the solution for their residential purposes.
Ruckus Wireless is scalable. Every controller has a limit on the number of APs, and my company's controller can handle one thousand APs. Still, my company only uses two hundred APs, so Ruckus Wireless is a scalable product.
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Menelik Yabowork
General Manager at InfoMed Technologies PLC
I'd rate the scalability ten out of ten. We are using the solution at full capacity. At different sites, there are different numbers of users. This is sued at hotels or companies. One access point can support up to 300 users. You just add a device if you need more users. We haven't had issues with latency or network congestion.
Our clients are small and medium-sized businesses.
View full review »This is a highly scalable solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten in terms of the ability to expand.
right now, we have about 350 users, and we are at 60% capacity. We're not sure if we will increase usage. We'll have to do a heat map and see if it is necessary for the future.
View full review »We can add the hardware and licenses to scale the solution.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
You can scale the solution up to your controller capability. Ruckus Wireless has a license-based controller, and you can scale up to several devices based on the license you get. More than 250 users are using the solution in our organization. The solution's scalability depends on how you engineer your area.
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Tahir-Bashir
Owner at SmartBiz Incubated LLP
We have a total of 95 users spread across two floors and the Ruckus Wireless system has been managing everything smoothly and efficiently.
The solution is scalable. If you want to expand the network, you only need to add access points.
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Jose Luis Ortiz
IT Project Manager at SITWIFI
Scalability is good. The SmartZone controllers have been working well. We know that they had a manufacturing issue with the first order as they had a lot of problems with the hard disks, but they seem to have resolved that problem. With the cloud, our clients have the capacity for a lot of systems.
View full review »I give Ruckus nine out of 10 for scalability.
View full review »Ruckus Wireless is scalable. It's an IP-based process that's interoperable, so you can deploy it in any environment.
View full review »No, their solutions are built with scalability in mind.
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Sintayehu Alemu
Director Of Information Communication Technology at Dire dawa University
Ruckus Wireless is scalable.
We have approximately 1,800 users using the solution indoor and outdoor we are supporting approximately 50,000 users.
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PhilipSlaughter
Independent Consultant - Wireless
The solution is very easy to scale. That's, what's nice about it. In our office, we only had to have one AP to cover the whole thing. Their whole business strategy is, for every five APs you might install another grid or eight to double. We do it for three, due to the fact that they have such great independent technology.
I have about 20 users at home and maybe ten users in the office.
I just got an internet connection in my house at a 400 megabits download speed. If I max it out on it and I think I did, on my laptop, I'm going to move to the next evolution of the product. I plan to increase usage in the future and I plan on deploying it in the future on other projects I'll be working on.
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Fahmi Suhendra
Assistant IT Manager at Fraser
It is scalable. We have more than 100 users.
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reviewer1610064
Executive Director at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
There are six of us in my house that use this solution and we also have an outside guest house that has access.
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Ndaba Tshuma
Professional Engineer at Telone Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd
The tool is scalable. We have over 300 users for the solution. We plan to increase the number of users.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
Only administrators have access to the actual solution. We have 120 end-users.
It is a scalable solution. Expansion is not an issue.
We do not plan to increase usage at this time.
View full review »The solution is scalable, and we have approximately 50 users utilizing the solution. I rate it an eight out of ten.
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InnocentKurehwa
VAS Technician / Wireless Technician at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very scalable. You can add more controllers as long you have license capacity.
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Scott Tunis
Vice President at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
This product is very easy to scale and I have a couple of pretty decently-sized Ruckus deployments.
The one that we are currently working on is a very physically large deployment and it's a mix of indoor and outdoor access points. Inside the single physical location, there's a pretty large distance between the location itself and an offsite, which is the reason we have a point-to-point.
There is the main physical location and then there is an offsite a couple of miles away, which is part of the deployment. The offsite doesn't really have any physical structures, though it does need the ability to have wireless. So, we're using a point-to-point to connect the two.
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Stephen Moreau
Managing Director at Dataway
The solution is very easy to scale. Once you have the cloud configured and set up, you can post a single access point to remote location. Plug it in and off you go or you can pre-provision hundreds of them in advance for a mass deployment.
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reviewer1291698
Director of Product Management at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Ruckus Wireless is a scalable solution.
We have deployed 350 indoor access point solutions, and 650 outdoors.
We have 5,000 people in our company, but we are not the ones who are using this product. We sell 50 to 100 per month. We are incorporating it into our solution and selling it.
I've deployed in JW Marriott Hotel with almost 900 access points. And I deployed it in one house with just 20 access points. So working with both big and small projects, I've had good customer feedback. Since I'm not receiving any complaints, I feel like it is working fine on any scale.
View full review »The scalability of the product is quite good.
In my organization, right now, we have 35 workers and we are planning to move our office. There will be 5,200 people there.
We do plan to increase usage.
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reviewer1640196
Wireless Network Engineer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Ruckus Wireless is a scalable solution.
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Stephen Kirby
Founding President at Cambio Broadband, LLC.
You can scale the solution as much as you want. There's never a problem with scalability.
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reviewer1611858
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The solution scales well. We have given more bandwidth as well as extended the network through Smart Meshing and it's been fine. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. No problem.
View full review »It's scalable. We have not had any problems. It's easy to add more users.
We have approximately 90 users in our warehouse.
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Kent Rustad
President at AIC Partners
The scalability of Ruckus is excellent. I have some very, very large customers.
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Rama Mogadi
student at Westcon
I'm quite impressed with the scalability. The solution can be deployed from a single SMB protocol dialect to a large number of users. The functionality is especially impressive when you have thousands of end users that you need to deploy to and the tool can support that level of functionality. It really doesn't matter the size of the enterprise from small, to medium, and large organizations the tool is equipped to handle them all.
Just as an example of the scalability of this product Google here in Indonesia used this solution to provide WiFi in remote locations. Last year the Asian Games were held here and several stadiums used this tool as their access point.
View full review »No issues with scalability. The product scales very well and eliminates co-channel interference. Very easy to add licenses to the controller to scale larger or add redundant controllers.
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EmilioOgando
Integration Manager at Newcom
The solution has scaled well. A customer shouldn't have any issues expanding the product.
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reviewer1026921
ICT Manager/Systems Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees
The solution scales well. If a company needs to scale it, it can do so.
In fact, currently, we're actually in the process of increasing the number of access forms.
We have about 1300 users on the solution currently.
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Abdul Basit
Network Design Engineer at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.
The solution scales quite easily when you need it to. We use and mix and match the old and new versions as we change rapidly. We have our older equipment that hits its end of life, and we deploy new ones to cover the old. We are able to do this pretty seamlessly, and, if we need to, we can just continuously add on based on our requirements.
Everyone who works in our organization uses the solution.
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EmilioOgando
Integration Manager at Newcom
The scalability is very, very good. We have no issues expanding as we need to. It's excellent.
We typically work with medium-sized Argentinian companies. In one of the implementations we handled in the past year, the client already wants to increase the coverage of the Wi-Fi network for the next year.
View full review »The scalability of Ruckus Wireless is good.
There are approximately 500 users using the solution.
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Subagio Istiadi
Infrastructure Manager at HIT
Its scalability is enough. There are 10 to 20 users per device.
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reviewer1644681
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Ruckus Wireless is scalable. However, in terms of the scalability of the controller, there is always a limit on the number of access points or clients the hardware can support. If the access points are placed in a decent place with multiple options of controllers everything works well.
Ruckus Wireless is the best fit for the SMB market which they have a dominant presence.
We have deployed the solution in an educational institute and in a restaurant that has a lodging segment and a coworking space.
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Wael Awni
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics
The scalability is great. I'd rate it nine out of ten in terms of the ability to expand as needed.
We have more than 40 clients using the product right now.
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Dániel Halmai
Head of IT Network Division at Panorinformatika
We've installed the solution for many clients so far.
We find the solution to be very scalable. I'd rate the scalability at about an eight or a nine out of ten.
We have ten employees that work directly with the product.
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chiefnet966021
Networking Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. You can connect the APs through a mesh without using cables, which makes it easy to scale out.
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reviewer1001358
Director of Applications Development at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it in all of our offices, it scales fine. We have central control of all the offices that they all have the exact same wifi configuration that we can manage centrally.
View full review »Not at all. Scalability is one of the things that they excel at, beyond everybody else.
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reviewer1377378
Analyst Programmer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable. If one controller is not sufficient, you can add another.
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reviewer1802343
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Ruckus Wireless is scalable.
We have three or four clients who currently use Ruckus Wireless.
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reviewer1307619
Ing Preventa (Sales Engineer IBW) at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
It has good scalability. We can use ten appliances with an AP. We can migrate to the SmartZone or Cloud. You can use the same appliance initially when you are a small business, and you can keep on using it as your business grows. Its scalability is very dynamic as compared to Aruba Instant On, where you have to use different appliances when your company starts to grow.
Most of our clients who are using this solution are small and medium companies. We have a few clients who are large companies.
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Anton Adriaanse
Senior Technician at Imply IT
I give Ruckus Wireless's scalability a ten out of ten. We can install 100 APs before installing more, which is enough for a small business.
View full review »Ruckus Wireless is scalable.
View full review »Ruckus Wireless is scalable.
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RajeshKumar3
Store Associate at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
The solution can easily scale and expand. If a company needs to make it larger, they can do so quite easily.
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Badar Raqeeb
Team Lead at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.
We have a variety of clients on the solution, and they are different sizes. Some are medium-sized. Others are large enterprise-level organizations.
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reviewer958080
Director Engineering & New Business at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
The solution is scalable.
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chiefnet966021
Networking Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
For the smaller network, which is just the company directors, we have about 20 who are on the network. The public Wi-Fi has a very large number of users.
I am planning to increase the number of APs once the directors have assessed it. I expect to buy more access points for other areas, such as marketing, where I want to put high-density and high-capacity APs.
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Nimesha Balasuriya
Engineer - Network Security Operations at SLT Visioncom Pvt Ltd
We don't have any problems with scalability. We purchased 400 access points. We had 1,800 to 2,000 APs attached to it.
We are in the process of procuring a new controller. Ruckus is fine for our solution.
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Wael Awni
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics
There are no scalability issues at all.
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reviewer938022
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We have more than ten customers on Ruckus currently.
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reviewer1470231
Asst. Manager Technical at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Ruckus solutions are scalable. When you talk about flexibility, their solutions are very flexible. A single access point can work on any controller. As in wireless, your access point should be worked as a standalone with a controller or as a controller-less environment.
Their access point is flexible enough to work in any sort of deployment. They can work as a standalone, they work on their different controller platform. Their same access point can configure to the Ruckus cloud.
They are scalable in the sense that you can add access points to their controller. Switches have their own scalability and flexibility option. Basically, the solution is 100% scalable.
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reviewer1376448
Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Scaling this product is pretty straightforward. On one of the island resorts that we deployed on, they have 120 villas in addition to the staff accommodations. In total, there are more than a thousand people in the resort.
In addition to the resort, we supply wireless coverage to the rest of the island. This brings the total number of users to more than 3,000.
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reviewer1377378
Analyst Programmer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is definitely scalable.
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Wesley Wang
DevOps System Engineer at Monash University
It's a scalable solution. Our biggest project is with the Taipei City Government. We have over 7,000 users at peak time.
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Kibue Gacuca
CEO at Comutaz Systems Limited
Scalability for Ruckus is excellent.
Buyer's Guide
Ruckus Wireless
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Ruckus Wireless. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.