They target the "enterprise" market. Way easier to work with than Cisco's enterprise WiFi system IMO.
My apartment is a RF mess in 2.4Ghz. I've been cycling through WiFi vendors every quarter or two for the past couple of years to see how their products behave between my work, my wife's streaming & work, etc. I have a pair of the Ruckus IAP93 (embedded controller, APs on same LAN work it out, otherwise all their stuff wants a controller) and they tag-team finding clear channels and shifting clients and AP channels around to dodge the neighbor's microwave, WiFi (my neighbors include appliance/telco service people that bring their trucks home at night with onboard WiFi hotspots), etc. Shorter range than UniFi at it's best but it's winning at "it just works all the time". They have some interesting features too. The APs can build a VPN per SSID back to different endpoints so your cash registers go on the SSID that VPNs back to the billing system, staff VPNs to somewhere else, etc. They have neat teleworker/remote office boxes to send home with staff. One box VPNs back to your main office, does WiFi "just like in the office" for staff devices, and does PoE out to a desk phone. It tracks MOS score for the phone inside the VPN, etc. Built-in username/password for WPA2-Enterprise if you want (username/pass per employee) so you get the ease of WPA2-PSK with WPA2-Enterprise's per-user control. We still like UniFi for low to medium density in unchallenging environments, though I'm getting tired of hacking up UniFi controller config files to make handoff sorta work. I hear Xirrus is the best for high-density from people that do WiFi at large events (e.g. basketball stadium full of gamers) but haven't had a need/chance to play with it yet... On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > I see HP bought them. Never heard of them. I would have thought that > if they were any good this crowd would have been talking about this at some > time or other. >
