Someone asked me about Wireless LAN Infrastructure Vendors and I put them in the following Tiers. It’s not some ‘Gartner Magic Quadrant’ type thing. It’s just my personal opinion of where these fall. Not a ranking by quality, or by technology… just a ‘gut feel’ from what I see out in the marketplace. They are just random inside the Tiers.
I would love to hear what you think. Did I miss any major vendor? Any of these placed in the wrong Tier?
Tier One
- Cisco
- Aruba
- Motorola
Tier Two
- Meru
- HP
- Enterasys/Siemens
- Ruckus
- Aerohive
- Trapeze
- Xirrus
- Bluesocket
- 3Com
- LANCOM
- Extricom
- Proxim Wireless
Tier Three
- Senao/Engenius
- Ubiquiti
- D-Link
- Proxim
- Belkin
- Linksys
- Netgear
- Meraki
- Fon
- SMC
- RealTek
- TrendNet
- ZyXEL
4/9/2010 – Update
I think I need to re-visit this list based on a bunch of feedback. Folks would like to see them ‘ranked’ (no, not going to do it) and add a different category for Mesh/PtP/PtMP kind of stuff. I personally don’t have a lot of experience there. Anyone want to tackle the job?
