Ruckus Wireless - Anyone?

[loadhigh]

Hi There

Does anyone have experience with Ruckus Wireless AP's in terms of reliability, speed and range? My company is moving to a new building; two buildings in fact and the brass want to go all wireless (I am a cable guy). I am looking at the Zoneflex R700, R600 and R500. They are a bit pricey. I have done a lot of research and read a lot of reviews. In the one building I need to support max 60 people and in the other 50 people - our staff mostly work out at clients. Mostly we just use email and internet with maybe the occasional 30 - 50 MB file transfer. In this price range I need my solution to work flawlessly. When I called my various suppliers for quotes, not a single one of them had ever heard of the Ruckus.
I am wondering if they might be overkill.

The Netgear corporate options I looked at were in the same price range but I've lost faith in the brand. For Cisco equipment I would need a Wireless controller and that's a bit beyond my budget.

 

[Nips]

Have you considered Avaya as an alternative. Similarly priced to Ruckus, but Avaya probably have a stronger networking heritage (since the Nortel acquisition). They are doing some really nice stuff around SDN.

(BTW, the company I work for does Avaya and Ruckus)

 

[paul5186]

Ruckus is good but pricey, otherwise look at the Ubiquiti unifi ac pro's.

 

[Muttley]

Try: zasales@ruckuswireless.com

 

[drs]

At Rhodes University, we're running around 600 Ruckus APs quite happily.

Also, amongst many others, Mall of Africa and Canal Walk.

 

[syntax]

Ruckus is epic. Used for Always on, can handle tons of users, speed doesnt dip.
Our company is about the biggest Ruckus partner in Africa (amongst other Vendors)

Remember, AP placement is almost as important as brand and type. If you are interested, drop me a PM and we can exchange emails / details. Our wireless team can assist with a survey or even a free proof of concept to demonstrate the product

 

[TheGuy]

We've used both Aruba and ruckus and I would rate the Aruba higher. Just make sure you get a zonedirector and integrate into AD for a seamless connection

 

[Park@82]

@Dolby used to sell these afaik.

 

[Dolby]

Yup - I can get them, but best bet is syntax

Did Aruba in a previous life and although great kit, doesn't quite match the Ruckus in terms of performance. We also do Huawei and there are even a few Huawei that perform exceptionally well.

And lastly, we have just doing that Avaya - but not sure on them as yet.

 

[HApyM3al]

Ruckus APs are great if you have the budget and as well running with a controller (adds a lot of functionality). Suppliers I believe Westcon and First distribution has Ruckus.

Seen APs running 120 clients on it. 70 on 2.4Ghz and 50 on 5Ghz. No problems what so ever.

If price is your problem go with Ubiquiti unifi.

 

[Dolby]

and First distribution has Ruckus

They've just bought out Phoenix Distribution and renamed it to First for Phoenix.

The idea is to have First Distribution doing datacentre (IBM, EMC, Lenovo server etc) and First for Phoenix doing networking (TP Link, Ruckus, Krone etc). As such, Ruckus is sitting with First for Phoenix as of 1 March 2016.

 

[unskinnybob]

Without a pricey zonedirector go for an alternative like Unifi.

 

[loadhigh]

Thank you to everyone who replied. I tried via First Distribution who told me I had to register as a partner. I did that and then was told I cant be cause my company doesn’t sell Wifi solutions. They managed to point me to someone here in sh*ttown, RSA who can assist me.

My boss will tell me to get it cheaper, so I'll probably end up with Ubiquity.

 

[Dolby]

PM Sent.

No such requirement to my knowledge ; think you may have been given the wrong info

That said, FD are a distributor and you'd need an account to purchase for resell, whether a COD account or credit.

 

[freematrix]

Very happy with Ruckus. It is more pricey. We use Unifi and Ruckus but am far happier with the Ruckus.

I still have a Ruckus controller and am using R700's with failover. VLANs' as well. Stable and always fast.

 

[djtzar]

We recently did a POC for Ruckus , wasn't all that impressed for the price point.

Get the UniFi LR AP + Cloud Key controller and you good to go been running it for almost a month now no issues.
It does lack all the bells and whistles the Ruckus has but we manage our VLANs on our Core switch anyway

 

[Gadget_guy]

I have a Ruckus Zone Director and 2 R700AP's which I would like to sell if anyone is interested?

 

[HApyM3al]

Post in classifieds section prices etc.