I use Ruckus (3 AP) in the office and the performance is good for 50+ people. Remember that every person at least bring two devices (laptop + mobile phone) to the office, some of them bring 2 mobile phones plus tablet. make sure you count that too when sizing the WiFi.
Meraki is easy to setup and manage, it does not use any controller on premise since the AP connect to Meraki Cloud. You can manage all your Meraki AP from single dashboard even if you have separate physical location. This including user management so you don't have to only rely on WPA2 for WiFi security
Regarding the AP itself, if budget allowed make sure the device support 802.11 AC, most new devices support this (CMIIW) this run on 5Ghz band which on most places less crowded than 2.4Ghz. Usually this kind of device support dual band with 2,4Ghz to also support
At the very least make sure the AP you will buy support dual band 5Ghz (802.11 N) and also 2.4Ghz (b/g/n).
Most dual band support feature like band steering (this might be ruckus term, but others should have similar feature). Basically the AP will offer the 5Ghz to any device want to connect to them first, if the device can't connect then they will offer 2.4Ghz band. Having people connected to 5Ghz band is improving the network performance that people get because less inteference in this band.
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I use Ruckus (3 AP) in the office and the performance is good for 50+ people. Remember that every person at least bring two devices (laptop + mobile phone) to the office, some of them bring 2 mobile phones plus tablet. make sure you count that too when sizing the WiFi.
Meraki is easy to setup and manage, it does not use any controller on premise since the AP connect to Meraki Cloud. You can manage all your Meraki AP from single dashboard even if you have separate physical location. This including user management so you don't have to only rely on WPA2 for WiFi security
Regarding the AP itself, if budget allowed make sure the device support 802.11 AC, most new devices support this (CMIIW) this run on 5Ghz band which on most places less crowded than 2.4Ghz. Usually this kind of device support dual band with 2,4Ghz to also support
At the very least make sure the AP you will buy support dual band 5Ghz (802.11 N) and also 2.4Ghz (b/g/n).
Most dual band support feature like band steering (this might be ruckus term, but others should have similar feature). Basically the AP will offer the 5Ghz to any device want to connect to them first, if the device can't connect then they will offer 2.4Ghz band. Having people connected to 5Ghz band is improving the network performance that people get because less inteference in this band.