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Cisco Meraki MS Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10
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9.2 out of 10

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Pros

Cloud Management Benefit: Reviewers have found the cloud management feature highly beneficial for easy access and control, allowing them to efficiently monitor and manage their network from anywhere. The centralized dashboard interface provides real-time visibility into network performance metrics, enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Simplicity in Management: Users appreciate the ease of managing the switches, making it simple to handle various tasks such as configuration adjustments, firmware updates, and troubleshooting procedures. This streamlined process saves time and resources while ensuring seamless network operation.

Troubleshooting Facilitation: The ease of testing port connectivity has facilitated troubleshooting and network maintenance for many reviewers, enabling quick identification and resolution of connectivity issues. By simplifying diagnostic processes, users can swiftly address network concerns and minimize downtime effectively.

Reviews

110 Reviews

Meraki Switching-Deployment Simplified

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Meraki switches are easy to deploy in a network and can be managed from anywhere once it is online on cloud. We generally use Meraki switches as core switch to segregate traffic as per our requirement by implementing static route and also restricting traffic through ACL. Meraki PoE switches are easy for using with Access points as power requirement for those APs are easily fulfilled through it.

Pros

  • Simplicity in SVI creation
  • OSPF configuration on the MS is very easy to configure
  • ACL configuration is something which anyone can understand and do
  • Policies implementation on the ports are very easy on MS

Cons

  • Policy based Routing is something which is very important features required.
  • Upgradation of dual persona switch 9300 takes a lot of time and we need to upgrade it a day before the implementation.
  • Proper CLI configuration should also be there on Meraki Switch

Likelihood to Recommend

Meraki switches are well suited for the environment like retail and small offices and schools and it is highly recommended to avoid using it in enterprise environment where so many complex configuration are required and many of those are not supported on the Meraki switches although day by day Meraki is giving new feature to its switches

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
3 years of experience

Great choice for branches

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At some locations we use Meraki full stack, so we have a variety of switch for core and access layers. But at almost every other location we use them only to split the WAN service between 2 routers. For this we use a basic 8 port switch, which is all we need for this purpose.

Pros

  • Remote tools
  • Visibility of each port usage
  • Configuration using templates

Cons

  • Improve logging
  • Implement AI to spot issues

Likelihood to Recommend

These switches are great for quick and easy deployments. If you have people with little knowledge about networking, they won't struggle to maintain and operate these devices. An experienced network engineer could quickly start noticing issues, like lack of logging management (you cannot enable/disable logs) or the need of the switch to have a connection to Meraki cloud in order to be able to manage it.

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
5 years of experience

Easy Dashboard for Novice IT professionals

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Cisco Meraki MS platform is easy to configure, manage, and utilize. The GUI has a great desktop experience for all users.

Pros

  • Set up
  • Ease of use
  • Search ability
  • Diagnostics

Cons

  • We have had some issues with ports becoming faulty over time

Likelihood to Recommend

These devices are great for our environment and have been reliable over the years. Quick and easy to setup and configure.

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
9 years of experience

Right tool for your team

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The fact that it team is a very Small team and increasing number of remote sites to support new business ventures and new locations, without ht need of local teams everywhere to support these functions

Pros

  • Remote management
  • High quality connections
  • Reliability

Cons

  • Licensing costs
  • Support response
  • Power consumption

Likelihood to Recommend

The best scenario is When the it team is a very Small team and increasing number of remote sites to support new business ventures and on the other side, when you have a large team with many automation already in place and can cut costs on new licensing iin that way.

Top solution from Cisco Meraki MS

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Company has several access points distributed in different contact center and business customer agents, and to be able to manage all from a single console and give internet to the clients and offices. Have complete control and administration of the contact centers, permitting easy control. Allowing and easy way to add new devices or replace all ones

Pros

  • Single user friendly console
  • Easy manage of all devices
  • Adding new features in new versions
  • Scalability

Cons

  • The license cost is one of the pain points
  • Capability to integrate with other vendors
  • More templates to generate reports

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited with several access points distributed in different contact center and business customer agents, with the ability to manage all from a single console Have a complete control and administration of the contact centers, permitting an easy control. Allowing and easy way to add new devices or replace all ones. Managing several vendors in one platform is a down.

Cisco Meraki MS Review

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Remote Location switching. Local Tech support read only access.

Pros

  • Visualization of config
  • simplified review for non-tech folks

Cons

  • Lack of proper stacking support on switches (2 switches should be managed as 1)
  • Lack of local console support for initial troubleshooting

Likelihood to Recommend

Better for the non-technical, but poor at more advanced concerns.

Cisco Meraki MS review - OH IO

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Meraki MS For the entire network. Cisco Meraki MS moves us to full cloud management network.

Pros

  • Dashboard
  • Firmware update simplicity
  • Easy installation
  • Easy management

Cons

  • Not much
  • Pretty satisfied
  • More product features
  • Lower prices

Likelihood to Recommend

Simple infrastructures

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
10 years of experience

Easy administration for a single console

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several access points distributed is different contact center and customer agents, with metals we can manage all from a single console and give internet to the clients and officers. We monitoring the throughput of the lan and the wan and see what is happening in real time

Pros

  • Single console
  • Easy manage of the access points
  • Adding new features in the new versions

Cons

  • The license cost is one of the points of improvement adding more plans or be more flexible depending of the organization needs
  • More templates to generate reports

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Meraki MS is well suited if you have several access points distributed geographically and you need a single point of admiration and manage all for a single console. Also, is you need only a one brand of hardware in your company in order to don’t have more than one console to see the network

Cisco Meraki MS - A solid all rounder

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Meraki MS are part of a suite including Meraki MX routers/firewalls along with MR wireless access points. They are primarily used in small-medium offices that are not considered large corporate offices but need a reliable easy to manage solution. Being cloud managed and easy to manage it provides a way for less technical staff to review/administer the devices but corporate security policies can be applied when necessary. A new switch can easily be deployed with no console cable. That's a big bonus.

Pros

  • Ease of deployment. No console cable
  • Can be simple flat vlan, or scale to stacks, dot1x, etc.
  • When integrated with MX and MR, a site topology diagram is built automatically on the Cisco Meraki dashboard

Cons

  • Possibly a CLI interface for technical staff to issue commands
  • Higher end models for corporate offices
  • Offline mode. Some environments may not have internet access at all

Likelihood to Recommend

A Cisco Meraki solution should always be in the toolbox for a small-medium office. Especially for a project team that moves around a bit. It is very easy to deploy and if after 6 months the project moves to another location, re-deployment times are much faster than traditional kit.

Whilst it could do the job. It is not at the point of replacing a large corporate office of Catalyst Switches but we feel it does not need to do that necessarily.

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
5 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MS Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We do wifi, we do office work at our company and we do it like wifi as a service.

Pros

  • It can scale good. Yeah, it scales have a good up time. It's easier to work on the cloud. Manage is pretty good. That's it.

Cons

  • This needs to get more into other platform like Intune and other products like UBA and everything like that has better integration with other platforms that Cisco Meraki MS doesn't have it like I see it.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's not a 10 because it's like some parts that need to get approved. It's approved, it can get better. It's suited for company, that's the branches, many small offices, scale, big, that type of thing. Yeah, if it's good,

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MS
5 years of experience

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