Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points use around the world
November 15, 2024

Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points use around the world

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Score 10 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • MR46
  • MR56
  • MR33

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

My company deploys many hundreds, if not thousands of Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points. Being a cloud managed platform it is easy to onboard new team members to manage the platform. We use templates to simplify the deployment based on a few different campus/office types. One template is for local breakout of guest traffic and others tunnel SSID traffic to a data centre larger MX unit for data centre egress of internet traffic.

Pros

  • Ease of deployment. No need for console cable.
  • Templates for deploying many Meraki MR units en masse.
  • The tools is underrated. Pings and easy throughput tests from a WAP can quickly identify or rule out potential issues.

Cons

  • Quite a few sub-menus on the dashboard however this can be mitigated with the use of Templates or using Terraform API.
  • Heatmaps could be better.
  • Uptime has improved significantly. The dashboard automatically keeps devices up to date by scheduling upgrades at remote times (say 2am on a Sunday)
  • Swapping to Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points has reduced the management overhead. No more long controller software hardware upgrades and obviously no more need for beefy central controllers.
Deployment times have reduced and management overhead is greatly reduced. Keeping the software up to date and our security team happy is not a worry. The use of templates means changing say a radius server IP is just a few clicks of a button.
Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points integrates perfectly with MX and MS. We have some MS in the environment and whilst MR and Cisco Catalyst does not present issues, using MS and MR is better due to them being managed on the same dashboard.
No issues with scalability. As opposed to a controller solution where hardware/license/software is always a worry.
  • Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)
The decision to move to Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points was primarily due to a reluctance to upgrade many Cisco WLC around the world. Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points was chosen due to its simplicity, flexibility and the ability to stage the rollout. Could do a site/country at a time without issue.

Do you think Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points again?

Yes

Replacing an existing controller solution is easy. Unplug the old, plug in the new and add the serial number to the dashboard. If templates are done properly, it will be online within a few minutes Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points may be less appropriate in a remote office where internet stability is an issue

Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
8.8
Zero-Touch Provisioning
10
WLAN Performance Monitoring
9
Topology Maps
7
Layer 7 Visibility
8
Power over Ethernet Support
10
Wireless Security
9

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