Great for growing businesses, good visibility, easy to learn.
April 30, 2021

Great for growing businesses, good visibility, easy to learn.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

We recently moved to a new building and are using Cisco Meraki APs throughout the building. We have several subnets for various things throughout. With this, we do have some ability to control throughput and demand based on usage feedback throughout the building. The management interface is very useful and especially for logging where we have the APs named and can pinpoint the various locations that we get alerts on. It scales well and we're looking forward to going to full capacity and really stress testing our APs.
  • Mesh network and coverage of various SSIDs
  • Centralized management interface without the need to VPN to access (cloud-based)
  • Centralized patching and applying policies to all APs
  • Logging is sent via Syslog only. Little frustrating when you're using it as cloud-managed network solution
  • The UI isn't very intuitive and having a global setting would be helpful.
  • Air Marshall
  • Logging and Security Events
  • Content filtering and category blocking
  • We've had a positive impact. Better visibility and auditing
  • Visibility into sites visited and data throughput.
  • We saved on ripping out one-off networking equipment and going with a common vendor
Honestly, both were very good, but it came down to price and integration with other Cisco devices that we're also using in our distributed offices.

Do you think Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point again?

Yes

There are some good use cases for this: I would say small to medium-sized businesses and if there is a small IT or Networking team and you need easier management for various things. For very large companies, you may want to go with something scaled for larger enterprises. We had to consolidate our networks and get a centralized mgmt solution and only had 1 networking engineer at the time. It's been very helpful as we've grown out.