Meraki MS Review
June 12, 2024
Meraki MS Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- MS210-24
- MS425-16
- MS425-32
- MS120-8
- MS410
- MS350
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MS
It's basically our layer two and layer three connectivity for those campuses. We utilize the Cisco Meraki dashboard to help monitor and help have visibility from our, that way we don't have to drive an hour to look at something or rely on a terminal on the site to gain access to set equipment.
Pros
- I think the cloud connectivity is very good. It helps as far as a manageability standpoint, it's top notch. I think that's the biggest bang for the buck. And also plug and play. You just plug it in and it works. It may not work exactly how you want it, but it works. You may have to do some other configurations.
Cons
- I think the biggest improvement is actually being able to see the hardware status, like the actual CPU status, memory status. Is there something, if there's an issue, one of the biggest issues that we've had is we could see whether some port information, we can see some ups and downs, but we don't, unlike the Cisco Catalyst series which we use also, we are able to dig in and confidently look at like, Hey, why is this device having an issue? We can't really do that with Cisco Meraki. We just kind of have, see if it's up or down and we like, well, we don't know exactly why it's down or we don't know why it could be having an issue.
- I think positively it's helped manage remote locations. That's the biggest positive, giving us the ability to manage the location without having to SSH into a terminal. We can see everything in the cloud from anywhere we like.
It's very easily deployable, very easily managed, especially with the cloud environment from a log location. So we're able to also get people who don't have any experience to say, Hey, take this switch, plug it in, then to replace another device and then it's up and running. We don't have to do anything on the ground ourselves. We can always ask somebody else who doesn't have experience with networking per se, but is able to just rack and stack it.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Meraki MS again?
Yes
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