That's a good observation. We have had little need for support but when we did Ruckus was very persistent in solving the issue. Some may say they bugged us a lot to make sure everything was in order.
They have a cloud based solution that we have just started to look at. Having just one campus makes it a difficult solution to go to. The philosophy of "if it works fine don't fix it" usually works best unless their is a major upgrade or EOL for APs. Even so, we move the older APs to low volume areas and have the one controller for the older stuff that can't be upgraded. We try and push ROI to the max since we are a private college. On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) < [email protected]> wrote: > One major point to consider is vendor support. We are not a Ruckus > Wireless customer but we just moved away from one of their prodicts to a > different third party product. > > > > We just moved away from Cloudpath (we tried Wizard & ES) due to poor > support experiences and lack of timely updates for new OS challenges. > > > > For us support is almost as large a challenge as product performance. I > personally would settle for a little less than ideal performance if there > is a good support structure backing it up. > > > > *Bruce Osborne* > > *Senior Network Engineer* > > *Network Operations - Wireless* > > *(434) 592-4229 <(434)%20592-4229>* > > *LIBERTY UNIVERSITY* > > *Training Champions for Christ since 1971* > > > > *From:* Wesley Troy Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:01 PM > *Subject:* Ruckus? > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm curious about how you are using Ruckus Wireless products on campus. > Specifically: > > > > 1. What's the size of your deployment (waps, controllers, users, etc) > 2. Are you completely Ruckus or do you have a mix of WLAN vendors > 3. Did you transition to Ruckus from another vendor or was it a > greenfield deployment > 4. How does the cost compare to other vendors > 5. Any concerns about specific use cases > 6. Anything folks should know when talking about Ruckus > > > > Thanks to anyone that can throw some light on Ruckus and is willing to > share their experience with me. I'll take responses off list too if that's > better for you. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Troy Scott > > [email protected] > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > > -- Harry Rauch Network Analyst Eckerd College 4200 - 54th Ave So St. Petersburg, FL 33711 727-864-8318 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
