Manage 1000s of Access Points for the price of 2
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005Was preparing a comparison document between WiFi Manager and other offerings in the maket when this caption struck me. Jumped into writing this post immediately.
One of the pricing models adopted in WLAN mgmt software space is price-per-managed-access-point where the software vendor charges a fixed amount; say $90, for every Access Point that the software manages. As a seller, this model makes huge sense as the revenue scales with the customer deployment (think of the cost of management if the user has 100 access points - works out to $9000, right?). But as a buyer, it is a pain for two reasons 1)you pay 1/4th of your AP cost on managing it 2)you have to contact the vendor for an upgrade every time you install a new AP beyond the licensed number. For WiFi Manager we purposefully cut off this relationship between software price and the devices it manages. Using WiFi Manager one can manage 1 or thousands of access points for the same $995 (roughly the cost of 2 enterprise grade access points). Sounds good, right?
well am going back to my document now..