Vendor Landscape: Wireless LAN

Reliable wireless is more than a convenience – it's critical.

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Cisco

Aruba

Enterasys

Ruckus

Aerohive

Juniper

Motorola

Meru

Meraki

What is a Value Score?

The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.

Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.

Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.

Weight: You can adjust the weight to what is more important to you.

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When both vendor and product weightings are equal to exactly 100%, your custom shortlist will be generated.

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Vendor

Product

Viability

Vendor is profitable, knowledgeable, and will be around for the long-term.

Strategy

Vendor is committed to the space and has a future product and portfolio roadmap.

Reach

Vendor offers global coverage and is able to sell and provide post-sales support.

Channel

Vendor channel strategy is appropriate and the channels themselves are strong.

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Features

The solution provides basic and advanced feature/functionality.

Usability

The solutions dashboard and reporting tool are intuitive and easy to use.

Affordability

The five year TCO of the solution is economical.

Architecture

The delivery method of the solution aligns with what is expected within the space.

Total

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What matters more, the vendor score or the product score? As you weigh the importance, we will generate the vendor shortlist to match your needs.

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Cisco

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Aruba Networks

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Enterasys Networks

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Ruckus Wireless

Ruckus
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Aerohive Networks

Aerohive
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Juniper

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Motorola Solutions

Motorola
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Meru Networks

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Meraki

Meraki
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What is a shortlist?
A shortlist is a personalized list of vendors based on the criteria above.

Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.

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Your Challenge

Many organizations are looking to expand and improve wireless coverage and intra-enterprise mobility in order to better meet immediate and future business demands.
Even if the enterprise WLAN will only serve as an extension of the primary wired network, mission-critical performance and reliability are now fully expected by business and end users.
This solution set will help you understand the key issues to focus on through your WLAN vendor selection process, identify the primary strengths and challenges of the leading players, and reach a vendor decision in an accelerated time frame.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

As expectations and demands on wireless networks continue to rise, the question will not be if, but when will the WLAN become your primary (or only) enterprise LAN.
Properly architected enterprise-class WLAN can be just as reliable, and vastly more secure and easy to deploy, than wired networks. Speed will be the most significant advance in coming years.

Impact and Result

Deploy a WLAN that will scale not just to business growth but also the explosion of mobile devices and applications coming into the enterprise.
Satisfy the needs of end-users as well as cost- and security-conscious stake holders.

Get to Action

Review the WLAN vendor landscape
Understand the current state of the WLAN market in relation to your needs.
- Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Wireless LAN
Narrow your field of options
Develop a shortlist of WLAN vendors based on their ability to deliver in key areas.
- Wireless LAN Vendor Shortlist Tool