Cisco Meraki Dashboard

I think the dashboard has various functionality to manage firewalls, wireless APs, and Meraki switches. And the best thing is imaging, for example, wireless devices, how you can create SSIDs, you use Cisco Meraki Dashboard to use Cisco workflows and create SSIDs and roll out network-wide.

We moved from having a multilayered set of different manufacturers, which made it hard to track. So everything is now on that same dashboard. Every morning I come in, I check the organizational health, I check the connections that are going on, and I check any issues that are on there. It provides me with different alerts, so I’m able to catch up with the alerts that come on that system as well. And it also gives me a self-guide as to how to repair anything that is not working.

Extreme Wireless Access Points

We use the Cisco Meraki Dashboard to centrally manage and secure our distributed network environment. Its cloud‑based interface allows us to apply configuration changes, monitor traffic, and enforce security policies across all sites in just a few minutes. One of the most valuable features for us is Meraki Content Filtering, which gives granular control over web access by blocking URLs or entire categories directly from the dashboard. This has helped us significantly reduce exposure to web‑based threats, since malicious domains, phishing sites, and malware‑hosting pages are automatically blocked through Cisco Talos intelligence. The product addresses several key business challenges: improving security posture, reducing the likelihood of ransomware or data breaches, and simplifying network operations. Because policies scale instantly across thousands of devices, we’ve also seen a clear reduction in incident‑related costs and an increase in overall productivity. For organizations looking for a secure, easy‑to‑manage, and highly scalable network solution, I strongly recommend Cisco Meraki.

Fortinet FortiGate

Proxmox VE, Fortinet FortiGate

It's like a one single paned glass for all of my systems. It manages our switches, our access points, pretty much. Those are only ones we have. We had some mx, which is the firewall, the securities, but we only have it in one location. So actually, basically the dashboard just allows us to manage all those devices in one's place.

Cisco Meraki Dashboard let's us empower our entire IT team to do networking work without having to be full CCNA level engineers. We use it to easily get holistic view of our entire network at a glance. We also appreciate the phased rollout of changes - I like being able to go back and forth between old and new views as they get fine-tuned. My only real constructive criticism is that sometimes pages can take a long time to load if there is a lot of data, such as the default client page.

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series, Cisco Umbrella