Item: Cisco Meraki SM
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki SM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Cisco Meraki SM Switches as Core Layer switches as well as Access Layer switches. The Power over Ethernet capacities paired with high switching power and versatile connectivity options make the product family a great choice as the backbone of our client access. Paired with a great Management plane in the cloud with an easy to understand User interface is the Cisco Meraki SM a great solution. The well documented API helped us a lot to implement the switches in a fast manner.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Versatile Product choices
Great PoE Budgets
Powerful Software solution

Cons

API Features could still be improved
License model might be a bit complicated
Ruggedized switches need more models

Return on Investment

Visibility improved a lot
Integration with other Cisco solutions are non comparable with other vendor solutions
Time to configure the devices went down rapidly by utilizing templates and tags

Simplified Management

The Management plane in the cloud with an easy to understand User interface is the Cisco Meraki SM a great solution. A well documented API paired with a broad range of supported ways to automate things, for example you can use Ansible, Terraform, raw python scrips so on and so on. Configuring 100s of networks in just an blink of an eye is here.

Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

Configuring different type of devices in a single dashboard is great. Pushing a whole network configuration, from Gateway to Access Switches to Wireless Access Points via a few mouse clicks is non comparable.

Scalability

Scalability is perfect with Cisco Meraki SM switches. Do you have 1 switch or 100 switches at a site? Doesn't matter, everything is visible in the dashboard.

Key Insights

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Meraki SM go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki SM again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Meraki SM Switches are a well chosen product for each scenario. They are perfect for franchises with locations that have no technical experts on site, simply send a cable plan with it, boot it up, connect it to the internet and boom - config and software is getting pushed to the devices. The powerful hardware makes them perfect for campus networks, too.

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Versatile and powerful paired with great usability - Cisco Meraki MS