Is it true that CommScope’s Ruckus Engineers have been fleeing to Meraki, who is just beating the green snot out of Ruckus?
Meraki has cameras, security appliance, IoT, LTE, switches, WiFi6, and a NICE array of products ( which honestly Ruckus is in Complete Lack Thereof).
But I find it strange that people would migrate to Cisco, when the fact is that Cisco is laying off too, a recent article shows Cisco employees taking early retirement packages, against the backdrop of additional layoffs.
Cisco pays wads of money.. not Google or Facebook crazy but very big compensation.
Sounds like an uphill battle. I certainly don't envy Commscope for buying Ruckus. I'm not sure anyone else does either. For starters, well everyone in this industry knows they do have a few WIFI hotel contracts here and there. But sadly hotels are mostly empty. Some hotels are taking in homelessness (as long as government funds are applying) and as I would guess, most hotel chains are probably little interested in upgrading to any Ruckus WIFI6. Secondary, well, maybe if Ruckus could land a stadium deal, it would help? Nope. Think about it ... the stadium owners probably don't care about WIFI6. You are lucky to get 20MHz bandwidth in a stadium anyway. Let alone 160MHz (WIFI6).
Honestly, most companies are probably thinking about passing on WIFI6 and waiting for WIFI6e. Nobody in their right mind would upgrade a Ruckus AP right now. It would be like blowing expensive crack up your nose.
The Meraki academic Engineers were from Stanford (if I recall). But those days are over. Did Cisco ever integrate Meraki and get management & SDN right? LMAO!
The only winners are people who leave these companies and startup another company, because companies like these only help to validate that there is a market for stealing someone else's customers.
Wink wink!