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Cisco Meraki MG

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What is Cisco Meraki MG?

Cisco Meraki MG cellular gateways are a cloud managed WAN solution designed to seamlessly transpose a wireless cellular signal to wired Ethernet, providing primary or failover connectivity.

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Cisco Meraki MG Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Meraki MG.
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Pros

  • Rapid and easy deployment and provisioning
  • Seamless integration with existing Meraki ecosystems
  • Reliable connectivity and internet speed

Cons

  • High recurring licensing fees
  • Limited advanced configuration options
  • Potential performance limitations under high traffic loads

MG flexibility for real

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's the fastest solution to provide connectivity without waiting for the long time to deliver connectivity of the ISP. It answer to those business requirements where the speed is strategic. It happens when a new office requires to be connected, temporary stands or back up connectivity with an alternate technology to connect places to internet

Pros

  • Fast configuration
  • Perfect integration in the dashboard
  • Very simple to deploy
  • It can be installed alone in IoT environments

Cons

  • It could be useful in IoT deployment smaller and chiper devices i.e. in those environment where many of these are required
  • Some hardware integration with cameras and sensors

Return on Investment

  • Enterprise network has the most suitable ROI
  • Iot or Smart City could be more difficult to fit the investment, maybe there are other vendor best in this cases like Teltonika

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate and Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800)

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points, Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Meraki MV, Cisco Meraki MT

Cisco Meraki MG review

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Backup internet for sites

Pros

  • Cellular data
  • Ease of config

Cons

  • Local management when needing a reset

Return on Investment

  • Ease of Internet, redundancy deployment
  • Reduced installation times

Alternatives Considered

Cradlepoint Routers

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki Insight, Cisco Meraki vMX, Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Cisco Meraki MG Review

Incentivized
Michael Weber
Network and Security Administrator in Information Technology at iSuite (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We support construction sites. Some of these sites are in remote locations where we can't get internet in or the length of the job will not justify the cost of bringing in a dedicated internet connection. We were using wireless hotspots, but this would require the users to use a VPN to connect into the network. Also, some of the wireless hotspots that we used had very limited capability. We deployed this, the MG 52 along with other network equipment in these job site trailers and it becomes an extension of our network over the SD WAN and allows the users and these job site trailers to operate just like they are on the network here at our headquarters.

Pros

  • Performance. So far I haven't really had any real issues with them
  • Internet speed
  • Signal strength

Cons

  • From a user aspect, to just a provider of the internet source for myself, they're very easy to set up. I don't have any real complaints over it. We use T-Mobile as our cellular provider, so there is some limitations on the signal strength and coverage. We could use AT&T, but the integration between the Meraki T system and our preexisting corporate AT&T account, there seems to be no integrations there. So that's where I would say the limitations are. I would prefer that the AT&T onboarding allows us to connect to our corporate AT&T wireless account.

Return on Investment

  • Definitely keeps cost down on jobs, so it's definitely increases the profit margin on our jobs.

Good solution for 5g backup link

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We tested Cisco Meraki MG for the business case of providing a 5g backup solution for our customers.

Pros

  • Provide a 5g solution
  • cloud management
  • easy to setup

Cons

  • Price
  • How many different models

Return on Investment

  • More uptime
  • Better availability

Alternatives Considered

MikroTik Routers and Switches

Other Software Used

Cisco 900 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR), Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)

Cisco Meraki MG 5G eSIM

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use the Cisco Meraki MG product for setting up a seamless remote deployment with the eSIM (embedded subscriber identity module) capability

Pros

  • In my opinion, Remote deployment is done well in Cisco Meraki MG
  • In my experience, eSIM (embedded subscriber identity module) enable is done well in Cisco Meraki MG
  • I think that 5G connectivity is done well in Cisco Meraki MG

Cons

  • In my experience, I think there is room for improvement in Cisco Meraki MG with the Dashboard

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