Item: Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points
Rating: 10
Author: JOE Markus

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So we use the Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points dashboard and that allows me to monitor how many mobile devices there are. It enables me to make sure that we also use the wireless with a Meraki security gateway. So I can see the throughput of our starlink connection, for instance. So I can see the overall usage and the challenges that we have is normally with guest devices, devices that I haven't seen already. So you get lots of questions because those devices are not normal in your network.

Pros and Cons

Pros

So the Meraki dashboard is wonderful. It's very exciting because you can see metadata on the dashboard. So you can see information around the population density, so you can see what access points are being overutilized as opposed to underutilized. You can see where there's coverage issues because it's very, very graphical. It's also easy to convey what I'm seeing to other people in the organization who are also stakeholders.

Cons

So the Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points dashboard, it's a little bit like comparing Apple and Android. So with Android you can do a lot more configuration, whereas with Meraki there are a lot of assumptions about a radio resource management. There are a lot of assumptions around, for instance, when it does a heat map, it's a heat map, which is a population density rather than a wireless coverage heat map. So that can cause confusion because normally when you look at heat map, you're looking at, that is a metric for how well it's performing rather than how many devices are using it. So I think that's always at the bone of contention around one of the things it can do.

Return on Investment

So I think a positive impact is that it was because you can set up, for instance, guess wireless very simply, and it's all self-contained. So a user comes in, they can use a splash page, it means I get less support calls, which is important, right? Because you don't want that. So when people pitch up, it's very intuitive how they can log onto the wireless and that's invaluable. Whereas with say the classic Cisco wireless controller system, that was much harder to do.

Simplified Management

N/A

Scalability

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Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

So I've used the Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points product not just in the organization I'm working for now, but across most vertical markets in my career. So what I've found is, for instance, the range of antennas that were available for Meraki are not as comprehensive as they are with the traditional Cisco wireless, for instance. So that's one of the, but one the pros always with Meraki is it's just ease of deployment and it also has some automated features. For instance, if it starts to lose connectivity on its wired or it will automatically mesh, which can create some interesting scenarios

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Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points Review