Enterprise Wifi Solution on a Budget

Wifi network has been ever so universal in our daily lives. You need it when you travel at the airport, attending online classes in school, in hospital, hotel, or maybe in a wifi coverage warehouse or office with IoT devices or handhelds.

Traditionally, wifi networks are provided by big names, like Cisco, Aruba, Extreme Networks etc. These solutions are great for reliability and functionality. In addition, you are paying the licensing and support fees to have the peace of mind. It costs 10’s and even more on setup plus annual licensing etc. It’s prohibitive for small business to implement.

Here we are introducing 3 solutions that will be able to provide enterprise level wifi with an affordable price tag.

1. Unifi from Ubiquity Inc https://unifi-network.ui.com/
2. Linksys Cloud Manager 2.0 https://www.linksys.com/us/cloud-manager/
3. Aruba Instant On https://www.arubainstanton.com/

Benefits are

• Affordable hardware
  • Access Points
  • Controllers (optionally software)
  • Switches
• Easily Software Management
  • Cloud based
  • Free of license (or at least 5 years free for LinkSys)
• Enterprise Level Setup with minimum setup cost, and management cost

In the next few weeks, we will review each system, and provide my choice.