The Juniper AP Series Access Points work in conjunction with the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture and Mist AI to collect and analyze metadata in near real-time from all wireless clients. This is to enable rapid problem detection and root cause identification with predictive recommendations and proactive correction realizing the self-driving network.
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Ruckus Wireless Access Points
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Now a CommScope company, Ruckus offers APs to fit just about any budget, performance requirement or deployment scenario, with APs designed to provide secure, reliable access no matter how tough the environment.
Network Admin in Information Technology at Central High School (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose HPE Juniper Access Points
I initially selected HPE Juniper Access Points on the recommendation of a vendor I trust. I previewed the Mist console and liked what I saw. On subsequent purchases, it was a no brainer to stick with them because it has worked out so well. My only concern is how much things …
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The Mist portal-controlled Juniper APs are great in an environment where clients are relatively stationary. Coverage is fantastic, and throughput is really good. I would be more concerned about placing these in a distribution-type warehouse where clients frequently roam between APs. While I've not had any issues, I could see where some APs might become sticky due to the cloud-controlled nature. In my experience, a local controller would be better suited to environments like that. I'm also concerned that support and quality may suffer due to the HPE merger.
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Juniper AP45 coverage is great. We have one deployed in a sub-optimal manner (too high, too much space for a single AP), and we still have great coverage.
The APs are easy to configure via the Mist Portal. You can create sitewide templates, as well as templates for subsets of APs.
The APs are reliable. We don't have much trouble out of them. I can count on 1 hand how many times I've had to reboot one in the past year.
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We used a reseller to help set up and initially manage the Juniper APs. Templates are set up and deployed to sites, and at first, it may seem complicated, with a slight learning curve. Once created and deployed, the overall management and usability are great. In summary, the initial setup takes some advanced knowledge of the Cloud Dashboard setup with templates. After that, it's easy to use and manage moving forward.
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I prefer Juniper. Configuring the extreme environment was odd and clunky. Three years after we deployed Extreme I got informed the virtual controller we were using was end of life. The APs were still good, just the controller was end of life. I had to deploy a new virtual controller and reconfigure everything. I won't have this problem with Mist's cloud controller
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Honestly, the best thing I can say is users had no idea we changed the network. We went from a network with little to no problems to a new network with no problems.
When we deployed the new Access Points, users just connected and went about their day.
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