What items are needed?

[Timothy_MTS]

Hello all,

Recently our management starts discussion on replacement our current Wireless solution in office. We have some reseller quote us the Ruckus R650WW. And then also with Cloudpath cloud license and Cloud Analytics AP. 

I have a little experience with Ruckus before, it's easy to manage, great coverage. 

But I don't have much experience on Cloudpath or Cloud AnalyticsAP , what are they really for? Are these necessary to make it run?

The background in our office is we are having Microsoft AD with policy pushing the certificates to our internal laptops when connecting in office. We are having / going to have 4 to 5 SSIDs for our daily activities including MDM and Guest access.

[Vineet_nejwala · Accepted solution]

Hi @Timothy_MTS 

Glad to hear that you have chosen to be the part of Ruckus Family. Yes indeed our WiFi solution is simply the best in performance, easy to manage, provided reliability at extreme condition and not to forget the amazing support/Dev team that is always willing to help and put an extra effort for customers satisfaction .

In regards to the Cloudpath and Cloud analytics these two are one of our important solution to provide feasibility ti customer. Cloudpath is policy manager and some of its highlights listed below :

Automated onboarding for all users, including employees, guests, and contractors.
Intuitive workflow engine for comprehensive policy-driven access.
Distributes unique certificate per device based on policies.
Built-in certificate infrastructure and RADIUS server.
Automates EAP-TLS, the WPA2-Enterprise gold standard.
Supports guest use cases, including sponsorship.
Differentiates between IT-owned and personal devices.
Provides visibility into users, devices, and policies.
Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and Certificate Services.
Integrates with external LDAP and RADIUS servers.
Integrates with your existing WLAN.
Cloudpath ES is deployable on-premise as a VMware server(s) or is available as a cloud service to make a powerful addition to existing ZoneDirector and SmartZone platforms.

.RUCKUS Analytics is a cloud service for network intelligence and service assurance. Powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, it gives IT comprehensive visibility into network operations. The service accelerates troubleshooting and helps IT teams meet their network SLAs. RUCKUS Analytics delivers powerful incident analytics, network health monitoring, advanced client troubleshooting and more.

Below video can further help in explaining more on these two solutions :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5cLjWoLDw&list=PLySwoo7u9-KJ4kZxhfoArNQfFDGWhwSJm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GoVLdscNlQ&list=PLwZotTMbkZQGwnruaWHk_h1ANQATG6eap

Best Regards

Vineet

[Timothy_MTS]

Thank you Vineet.

For the Cloudpath, can I say that this is a Cloud based management portal so I can manage those policies or end user clients from this portal? I understand there is a license cost per concurrent user to the Wifi.

And for the Ruckus Analytics, the quote from the reseller is RUCKUS Cloud Analytics AP Spp5yr REC. And this is per AP unit cost. So for this item, it includes the support of the AP as well as the usage of features that mentioned?

Appreciate for your help.

Cheers,

Timothy

[Vineet_nejwala]

@Timothy_MTS 

Cloudpath ES can be deployable on-premise as a VMware server(s) or is available as a cloud service as per customer preference and Yes license structure is per User basis.

For the RA, Yes the license structure would be per AP basis and it would cover all the features from RA.

Again these two are very crucial product as CP manages policy/security of WiFi user connection and RA manages overall monitoring of your Ruckus System and keeps you updated on your Controllers,APs, and clients health and help identify issues with them as well as monitor overall Performance of WiFi devices.

Best Regards

Vineet