What cloud solutions? Ubiquity? pfft. Aruba cloud is a Frankenstein bolt on joke currently, maybe with Mist one day in about 5 years but that hasn't played out yet, Ruckus an even larger joke with one failed cloud offering after another. If all you care about is price point just go buy a bunch of open source APs and roll your own. You will wait a million years for product, but its cheaper, UNITL IT ISN'T. But if you care about full stack with end to end management, security, real live support and RMA on hardware in a timely manner with lots of hardware options and a true cloud first offering stick with Cisco Meraki. Everything else is a much, much paler shade of green, almost grey. Buy your licenses in multi year bundles and then do the cost apples to apples broken down by year, month, week, per day etc . Dont forget to include all things the others leave out on purpose. real PoE, 24x7x365 live support, RMA times, etc, etc, etc. You will see its not as much as you think or the bean counter thinks it is. More importantly the bean counter isn't the one who has to support this day in and out its you and your team who are likely already understaffed and under funded. What is your time worth?
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