Let's say I had a 300-AP wireless LAN environment in my company.
What would be the bottom line list price of a WIPS solution from your company?
What would be the bottom line list price of a WIPS solution from your company?
Pricing?
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Let’s assume a typical enterprise office building and 1 sensor to 4 AP ratio given APs were deployed based on certain bandwidth requirements. This would require 75 Sensors and one WIPS appliance. Total cost of AirTight SpectraGuard Enterprise solution for this scenario would be $85,125 (list price).
Based on standard list price the cost would be approximately $93K fully installed, which includes hardware, first year maintenance and installation cost. This is using a AP:Sensor ratio of 5:1 and an “overlay” sensor deployment.
Approximately $50,000
Wade - does the $50K include installation costs and maintenance? Just curious because your bottom-line list price is so different from AirTight and AirDefense.
Hi Joanie,
That price just reflects the product price of the system. It assumes 1 sensor for every 5 to 6 APs (I used 5 to be conservative). That comes out to 60 sensors plus the server licenses. At list, that comes out to around $50,000.
That price delivers the server software only that the customer would deploy on their own server hardware. We also offer our customers the option to purchase our server pre-installed on a hardened appliance. This option would add around $6,000 to the price of the solution (bringing the total to around $56,000.) Support on that system would run around $10,000 bringing the total system cost to $66,000. I leave installation and cabling costs out because, the costs vary based on the customer environment (does the customer have PoE capable switches in the network? Are APs already cabled in the environment?) We ask these questions because in many cases we can support our sensors using the same cable run that is already deployed to support the AP, and save a good deal of support cost in the process.