Premium pricing
Ideal for Large campuses, regulated industries, and teams that want the broadest ecosystem integrations.
Cisco’s end-to-end story shines when uptime and unified observability matter. The licenses are spendy, but the operational polish and tooling depth justify it for complex networks.
- •Catalyst & Meraki dashboards with deep telemetry
- •Industry-leading TAC support & documentation
- •Zero Trust + SD-WAN baked into the stack
Value pricing
Ideal for Boutiques, coffee chains, mid-size offices, and prosumers wanting controller-based Wi‑Fi without subscriptions.
Ubiquiti wins on cost-to-coverage. The hardware is friendly, but change management needs rigor—QA firmware before broad rollout in production spaces.
- •Unified controller with approachable UX
- •Great AP density for the price
- •No recurring licenses on most SKUs
Balanced pricing
Ideal for Distributed retail, higher-ed, and offices that care about client experience KPIs.
Aruba’s stack pairs thoughtful RF design with pragmatic automation. Licensing is clearer than most, and Central’s UX keeps troubleshooting quick for lean IT teams.
- •AIOps insights via Aruba Central
- •Clean guest onboarding with captive portal templates
- •CX switches pair well with APs for unified policy
Upper-mid pricing
Ideal for Arenas, convention centers, and enterprises that demand verifiable Wi-Fi SLAs.
Juniper nails visibility and deterministic performance. The learning curve is steeper than SMB gear, but Mist’s AI tooling shortens time-to-resolution once configured well.
- •Marvis AI assistant accelerates triage
- •Strong QoS story for collaboration traffic
- •Excellent telemetry for SLA-backed spaces
Budget pricing
Ideal for WISPs, labs, and networkers who enjoy scripting over GUIs.
MikroTik hardware punches above its price when tuned well. Expect hands-on CLI time and validation testing, but the flexibility is unmatched at this cost.
- •ROS offers deep knobs for the price
- •Great for labs and proof-of-concepts
- •Huge community of scripts and examples