Meraki MS Review
February 25, 2025

Meraki MS Review

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Score 10 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • MS120-8
  • MS125
  • MS225
  • MS250

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MS

Its like an access switch. So it's just providing all the infrastructure for all the wide stuff in our offices and for APs to uplink back to our call.

Pros

  • So what it does really well is really the simplicity. So we can just give access to the technicians just to the panel and they can easily understand it and make the changes they need. So that's one of the main parts in as well. It's the remote management as well. So it seems to work really well. Even if you've made a mistake and you've disconnected or broken the main management uplink, it'll find a different path up to the network and allow you to resolve the issue.

Cons

  • So compared to the Cisco Catalyst series, there isn't that many dolls you can turn and just optimize stuff. So particularly I'm not quite sure around how stuff like MACsec would work on the MS. It's something that I've really got to look into more and the documentation isn't really that obvious for that feature.
  • So it's really helped us grow. So before we're managing a lot of switches like individually, but now with the Cisco Meraki MS platform we're able to manage a much larger network with the same amount of people.
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We use Cisco ISE to is our network access control. So just to provide automation to the MS devices. Yeah, I think that's it, which is directly connected.
So I'd go 8 or 9. So there is probably some improvements which could be made. So if you do it via the APIs, I see you could do it, but on the dashboard itself, there are some limitations where you have to do stuff manually to scale across multiple devices. So more automation tools in the software would help with the scaling and more devices.
We haven't really tried many of the others, but what we have experienced on the Cisco Meraki platform we're quite happy with.

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

So particularly it stands out for remote locations where we have no IT staff or IT staff fairly infrequently, but we do use it pretty much everywhere.

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