Open-source alternative  ·  Wireless Management

Replace Cisco Meraki WiFi with OpenWRT.

OpenWRT: self-hosted

Open source wireless firmware + controller. Full WPA3, VLAN, captive portal, and central management. Free.

You'd keep~R15 996 to ~R144 996/year

Current licence  ·  Wireless Management

Cisco Meraki WiFi

~R15 996 – ~R144 996/yr

10-user estimate

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OpenWRT

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R144 996/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Cisco Meraki WiFi's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Small (5 APs)

R15 996/yr

R1 333/month

Flat rate

With OpenWRT

Keep R15 996/yr

Medium (15 APs)

R45 000/yr

R3 750/month

Flat rate

With OpenWRT

Keep R45 000/yr

Enterprise (50 APs)

R144 996/yr

R12 083/month

Flat rate

With OpenWRT

Keep R144 996/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Cisco Meraki WiFi grows around 10% per year on average. OpenWRT hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR64kR128kR193kR257kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R234kR14k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.03M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Cisco Meraki WiFiOpenWRT (self-hosted), in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other wireless management migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.