Ruckus Wireless (RKUS)

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Network Computing article on today's Cloudpath news:
"As a latecomer to the enterprise 11n market when it was in its heyday, Ruckus no doubt hopes to leverage Cloudpath’s customer base to sell more 802.11ac network gear as older 11n deployments come up for refresh. But the WLAN vendor has bigger aspirations with this acquisition.

Ruckus has long been a proponent of Hotspot 2.0, which could transform public WiFi by bringing enterprise-grade security to the masses, but getting mass buy-in hasn’t been easy. Ruckus has deep penetration in the carrier space, and by extension access to huge customer volume at a time when carriers are looking ever-harder at WiFi to augment their services. Add the proven and easy onboarding capabilities provided by Cloudpath, and Ruckus might just be in a position to facilitate wider adoption of Hotspot 2.0.

With Cloudpath, Ruckus also is acquiring a complete solution that's superior to the competition. It’s becoming fairly common for WLAN vendors to offer abbreviated versions of Cloudpath’s capabilities. I’ve taken a number of them to task for leaving out important features that Cloudpath provided early on, including options like toggling IPv6 support on or off, making sure device firewalls are on, and that system updates are set to automatic.

Beyond simple onboarding, Cloudpath provides basic, but critical, device management functions. In my experience, this provisioning sets clients with a common basic posture that leads to dramatically reduced trouble ticket counts and a known baseline to troubleshoot from."
http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/ruckus-buys-wifi-onboarding-specialist-cloudpath-/a/d-id/1322796