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Let see how does ruckus does in security?
1-Aruba offers an integrated role based access control for wireless and wired users, what does ruckus does?
As far i know Ruckus maps user groups to a WLAN, which is then mapped to a VLAN
and Policies are defined and enforced by external 3rd party devices
2-Aruba has integrated WIDS WIPS into the infrastructure, while as far i know ruckus does basic rogue detection. Ruckus does not automatically black list client, while Aruba does, ruckus needs manual intervention i think
3-Rukus does not offer VPN functionality as far i know
4-Aruba offer an stateful firewall for network security and QOS, as far i know ruckus need third party device for access control
5-Aruba provide per application QOS while ruckus offer per SSID Qos we don't need more SSIDs like a vlan for voice, like i mention having more SSID does impact in the throughput of your WLAN... Because of the management overhead.
6-Aruba do derived roles in one SSID like a mention i can make rules depending on which group of AD you are i can give different access to Sales OU, or IT OU and so on
Now let's talk about the redundancy
Aruba does offer L3 and L2 redundancy, L2 using VRRP and L3 using LMS and backup LMS
- Ruckus does not offer L3 redundancy as far i know.... Which is handy when you got 2 controllers separated by a layer 3 boundary (which you get several scenarios like that)
- Ruckus APS when they are failing over to the secondary controller as far i know the AP needs to reboot, on Aruba aps does not need to reboot or anything they automatically fail over to the secondary one at least on the layer 2 redundancy.
- Ruckus does not have vlan pooling as far i know... i can have on one SSID with 5 vlans mapped to it.. Which will reduce the number of user per vlans which doing so restricts the size of the broadcast domain, thereby limiting unnecessary traffic?
- Not to mention Aruba is on the leader Quadrant on Gardner on wireless only which was on 2011 and wired and wireless on 2012. While ruckus is still on Visionary quadrant....
And more... (That they don't have)
- No Spectrum analysis functionality
- No Integrated stateful firewall, role based access control, client blacklisting or VPN functionality
- No advanced WIPS functionality
- No application awareness (this is important, as i can know if you are using an app that is using voice it will give it priority)we don't need another vlan for voice... Which is a waste of another SSID
- No multivendor wired/wireless management solution. No integrated RF planning.
This info was brought to you by - NightShade1 | edited and gathered by - kdisc98