Cisco Meraki MS

I think small to medium sized campuses, it's very well suited for, especially also if you're managing it from a remote location, then it's very useful there.

Well, I guess what makes it well-suited? We're in education, so what makes it well suited, especially if you have a limited staff, just the visibility of the dashboard that you can see so much information in one pane of glass when you definitely have limited staff. Trying to eliminate those panes of glass is very important to us.

I think branch offices and smaller locations are really good areas where you're trying to stand up sites quickly, point of presence sites are very good for it. I've had a lot of success in just quickly getting things out there and deploying them with the solution. And yeah, I'd say those are probably good locations for it.

Generally Cisco Meraki MS switches are a good solution if there is no direct access to the Headquarters via VP or if the switch simply needs to be managed via internet.

The switch cannot be used if there is not internet connection available. E.g. in production / manufacutring networks it's not usable.

Again, cloud monitoring and management functions. Looking forward to AI integration for onboarding and implementation.

For use in a senior living facility, the stackable and redundant power options for the Cisco Meraki MS 250s is very resourceful.

Cisco Meraki MS is good because of the simplicity and ease of use.

Cisco Meraki MS is well suited for large and straightforward environments that are repeatable environments.

Cisco Meraki MS is well suited for organizations where there is a limited number of IT staff and not everyone is well versed with Cisco Catalyst products. Cisco Meraki MS provide a single pane screen and make it easy to figure out if there as an issue on MS product or any other Meraki devices.

Cisco Meraki MS Switch is a solution that we are using in different scenarios. You can use for a big company with different branches where you can configure all the network in a simple way or you can use Cisco Meraki MS switching in a small company where they don't have a big IT department to manage all the devices. You can also see the wifi and firewall in the same dashboard.

Good for small and medium network sized (all in one solution). Thanks to the Meraki dashboard you have the ability to manage and apply configuration.

Don’t have any reason to say where the Cisco Meraki MS is less appropriate. Maybe the only thing I can mention is that I wish that the power cable is in the box.

Because the Cisco Meraki MS platform is cloud-based, options are limited for you when cloud connectivity is not yet established. More troubleshooting options should be available to establish and troubleshoot initial cloud access.

Cisco Meraki MS is easy to configure and manage, small teams can really benefit from using the dashboard. Alerts help to keep on top of issues and port schedules can help to reduce power usage by power of devices in times they may not be required.

Small business retail vetical

Small, not knowledgeable customer

SMB is nice core scenarios not so much

Cisco Meraki MS is well suited for the use of temporary locations. Branch offices, trade fair stands, and laboratory locations must be set up and operated on short notice. Locations with few technical staff that are operated on-site by employees themselves. The switches can be quickly installed and configured.

Cisco Meraki MS is easy to deploy and set up.

I came into my org from the MSP space ripped out a Ubiquiti stack, and brought in Cisco Meraki MS, and we have loved it since.

Easy to manage, making changes.

Wireless connectivity to any device whether that is a patient monitoring device or an asset with wireless connectivity. Also, allows one to get a single pane of view of all devices connected.

Cisco Meraki MS is brilliant in very simple environments where basic segregation is required. Many features are pre-configured as defaults and this makes it easy to configure security and stability features like STP protections and UDLD. It is capable of some more complex functions, such as dot1x authentication. TAC support is easy to access and usually timely. Bundling support into the license and making it available through Dashboard is great.

We have had issues monitoring the Cisco Meraki Dashboard using legacy SNMP based system - this means we now effectively have one more network monitoring screen to watch. We also sorely lack an ageing timer for stick MAC address port security - essential in uncontrolled locations with no NAC available. We have also had issues with devices pulling DHCP leasing from the wrong VLAN on initial provisioning and then struggling to transition to our management VLAN when the full config is pulled.

We use these for small offices where they come in perfectly. we use a MX as a firewall to protect the access layer but where this is needed for isolated LAB these switches are perfect and since they are cloud managed, it can be configured on the go

Cisco Meraki MS is well suited when working with network architecture, and me and my team have thoroughly appreciated its helpfulness to our project.