Makes life a little easier
June 08, 2023

Makes life a little easier

Ryan Forburger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • MS250-48
  • MS250-48FP

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MS

We deployed these switches to replace out aging switches deployed throughout our warehouses. It was a bit of an adjustment at first getting used to not having to console into each unit but with the advantages of the zero touch deployments, it quickly became favorable. Everything has been a smooth deployment with the expectation of running into issues with CDP sessions. We discovered that if We are using Extreme APs which have CDP enables, any meraki switch connected to those APs crashes the CDP process. CDP will still respond, but CDP is getting presented through SNMP. This has effected some of our configurations with E911 calling and callbacks.

Pros

  • Simplicity of Configuration
  • Dashboard management
  • Better troubleshooting tools
  • No longer need to use CLI

Cons

  • Handling CDP sessions

Do you think Cisco Meraki MS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Meraki MS's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Meraki MS live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki MS again?

Yes

  • the MS250 line has offered the same benefits of the 9300 switches.
  • The reason we decided to go with these were the lack of inventory of the 9300s and the lead times.
This has saved us so much time in configuration time, deployment time, and much easier to look at a dashboard to troubleshoot and issue with a display rather than hunting through logs and CLI to try and find where the issue is laying causing us network issues. I highly recommend these for that reason alone.
These units are very easy to drop into a site and expand out network if and when needed. The ability to claim a device per network and have it auto provision itself to a pre defined configuration template allows us to be very flexible with our scale.
We have replaced most of our core MDF switch stacks with meraki and love the integration the dashboard will have with our current fleet of 9300 catalyst switches. This has made deployment and management much easier for our department. The zero touch deployment of the meraki switches has saved us a LOT of time when it comes to switch replacements or a new warehouse build.

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