https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36234#M6459 How about now that Ruckus is moving into SMB market, you enable MESH feature on stand-alone APs too. Tying this to a ZD IMO is a function of driving ZD sales than anything else. <BR /><BR /> Reasons: <BR /><BR /> - ZD is part of the management and control plane not access <BR /> - I can't remember the last time we implemented a MESH network for a big client, like a hotel or something but <BR /> - Big majority (talking from my experiences here) MESH requirements are for very small implementations of up to 3 APs which makes a ZD sale hard and usually causes a purchase of some other cheap vendor <BR /> - There are other more prominent features a ZD brings to a network, like: band-steering, coordinated channel allocation, logging, graphical speed tests, real time monitoring, zero-it, etc, etc, etc, so MESH really isn't a feature that makes a sale at all. <BR /> - You've got the R300 now which is the first AP that doesn't support MESH so selling a ZD because of MESH isn't an option. <BR /><BR /> I would say that sales of ZD wouldn't suffer a bit since there are other easier reasons for selling a ZD and I would rather sell stand-alone APs now and maybe a ZD later, then loose an opportunity because of pushing for a ZD at the start. Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:03:35 GMT primoz_marinsek 2014-04-28T10:03:35Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36234#M6459 How about now that Ruckus is moving into SMB market, you enable MESH feature on stand-alone APs too. Tying this to a ZD IMO is a function of driving ZD sales than anything else. <BR /><BR /> Reasons: <BR /><BR /> - ZD is part of the management and control plane not access <BR /> - I can't remember the last time we implemented a MESH network for a big client, like a hotel or something but <BR /> - Big majority (talking from my experiences here) MESH requirements are for very small implementations of up to 3 APs which makes a ZD sale hard and usually causes a purchase of some other cheap vendor <BR /> - There are other more prominent features a ZD brings to a network, like: band-steering, coordinated channel allocation, logging, graphical speed tests, real time monitoring, zero-it, etc, etc, etc, so MESH really isn't a feature that makes a sale at all. <BR /> - You've got the R300 now which is the first AP that doesn't support MESH so selling a ZD because of MESH isn't an option. <BR /><BR /> I would say that sales of ZD wouldn't suffer a bit since there are other easier reasons for selling a ZD and I would rather sell stand-alone APs now and maybe a ZD later, then loose an opportunity because of pushing for a ZD at the start. Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:03:35 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36234#M6459 primoz_marinsek 2014-04-28T10:03:35Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36235#M6460 Is it possible to use Mesh without ZD? For example only 2 AP, one wired (root AP) and other one AP with Mesh. <BR /><BR /> Thanks Mon, 26 May 2014 06:30:35 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36235#M6460 jjj_jjj_6588794 2014-05-26T06:30:35Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36236#M6461 Sorry, I thought I was clear with my request. <BR /><BR /> You can't have MESH functionality without a ZD and here I'm asking them to enable it so you can. Mon, 26 May 2014 07:10:45 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36236#M6461 primoz_marinsek 2014-05-26T07:10:45Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36237#M6462 I agree on all points.... would be very nice to have for smaller residential deployments. Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:40:25 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/ZoneDirector/MESH-for-stand-alone-APs/m-p/36237#M6462 jeff_roback 2014-10-16T22:40:25Z