e don't. But we DO believe in insanity, which seems to be running rampant these days in the networked world.
After reading Gartner's new 2014 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, we are feeling a bit disenfranchised.
It's not so much that Ruckus failed to meet the qualifications for participating in Gartner's annual MQ report because we don't sell a wired solution (we're a wireless company for heaven's sake). It's because we believe the approach is fundamentally flawed when it comes to how the bulk of the world now purchases a wireless LAN solution.
And we're not the only ones that feel this way. (As a publicly-held company we've learned to use "we feel" statements a lot more).
IMG - Lee Badman bloggerLee Badman, at Syracuse University, one of the industry's more braniac IT people, nailed it (read his hammering here). At Ruckus, we've been down this rant before.
Last year, we bitched and moaned (in what became one of our most popular BLOG posts) about how Gartner abandoned their wireless LAN magic quadrant in favor of one that combined wired and wireless LAN access.
At first we just thought the change was simply a response to big clients with big money wielding their big influence. That spawned several conference calls with Gartner's Ombudsman (no kidding) and several revisions of our not-so-nice stream of consciousness. But we were wrong; dementia has now seemed to set in.
To be fair, Gartner is more focused (as are suppliers like Cisco and Aruba) on the high end of the enterprise market (i.e. Fortune 500) where a unified wired and wireless access strategy makes sense.
These types of companies often have 25 IT guys that sit around a table for hours debating the finer points of intelligently filtering TCP and UDP packets based on application layer protocol session information found in the third octet of every jumbo frame packet.
But for the lion's share of the world's enterprise market (the unfortunate 50,000) where there are only one or two IT staff responsible for all things networking, wires are just a really good way to connect Wi-Fi access points.
The thing is, and there's no way around this, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi-capable devices have become so pervasive and important that most enterprises and service providers now look for best of breed, pure play Wi-Fi solutions –building their networks around reliable mobility first and foremost. This typically leads them to suppliers that offer simply better wireless.
Think about it, if users can't get connected reliably to a Wi-Fi network (which is now the default preference for access), then how is wired access going t
e don't. But we DO believe in insanity, which seems to be running rampant these days in the networked world.
After reading Gartner's new 2014 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, we are feeling a bit disenfranchised.
It's not so much that Ruckus failed to meet the qualifications for participating in Gartner's annual MQ report because we don't sell a wired solution (we're a wireless company for heaven's sake). It's because we believe the approach is fundamentally flawed when it comes to how the bulk of the world now purchases a wireless LAN solution.
And we're not the only ones that feel this way. (As a publicly-held company we've learned to use "we feel" statements a lot more).
IMG - Lee Badman bloggerLee Badman, at Syracuse University, one of the industry's more braniac IT people, nailed it (read his hammering here). At Ruckus, we've been down this rant before.
Last year, we bitched and moaned (in what became one of our most popular BLOG posts) about how Gartner abandoned their wireless LAN magic quadrant in favor of one that combined wired and wireless LAN access.
At first we just thought the change was simply a response to big clients with big money wielding their big influence. That spawned several conference calls with Gartner's Ombudsman (no kidding) and several revisions of our not-so-nice stream of consciousness. But we were wrong; dementia has now seemed to set in.
To be fair, Gartner is more focused (as are suppliers like Cisco and Aruba) on the high end of the enterprise market (i.e. Fortune 500) where a unified wired and wireless access strategy makes sense.
These types of companies often have 25 IT guys that sit around a table for hours debating the finer points of intelligently filtering TCP and UDP packets based on application layer protocol session information found in the third octet of every jumbo frame packet.
But for the lion's share of the world's enterprise market (the unfortunate 50,000) where there are only one or two IT staff responsible for all things networking, wires are just a really good way to connect Wi-Fi access points.
The thing is, and there's no way around this, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi-capable devices have become so pervasive and important that most enterprises and service providers now look for best of breed, pure play Wi-Fi solutions –building their networks around reliable mobility first and foremost. This typically leads them to suppliers that offer simply better wireless.
Think about it, if users can't get connected reliably to a Wi-Fi network (which is now the default preference for access), then how is wired access going t
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