Abstract

Many businesses employ value added resellers (VARs) and MSPs to provide them with networking services because many do not have internal IT resources. Many businesses are structured to have regional offices that oversee activities at many, individual retail locations. These businesses include gas stations, fast food, clothing stores and many others. Regardless of the type of business, they have many common needs. They all want and need feature-rich Wi-Fi and wired networking. And, because few have on-site IT staff, they need systems that are easy to install and are easy to manage remotely.

NETGEAR commissioned Tolly to evaluate its Insight Pro medium business and MSP solution and compare it to offerings from Aruba (HPE), Meraki (Cisco), and Ubiquiti. Tests showed the NETGEAR solution to be demonstrably superior overall to the alternatives for this market offering in part: 1) an architecture designed for multi-customer, multi-location businesses, 2) simple and flexible setup, 3) highly-functional cloud portal, and 4) most extensive management via a mobile app.