Versatile way to connect remote workers to corporate network
Great product to connect teleworkers to a safe and secured network. The versatility with dual uplink features, utilizing a SIM Card and …
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What is Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker (discontinued)?
Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker is an enterprise class firewall, VPN gateway and router. Each model offers five gigabit ethernet ports and wireless for connectivity. Cisco now recommends the Meraki Z4 Teleworker.
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What is Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker (discontinued)?
Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker is an enterprise class firewall, VPN gateway and router. Each model offers five gigabit ethernet ports and wireless for connectivity. Cisco now recommends the Meraki Z4 Teleworker.
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What is Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker (discontinued)?
Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker is an enterprise class firewall, VPN gateway and router. Each model offers five gigabit ethernet ports and wireless for connectivity. Cisco now recommends the Meraki Z4 Teleworker.
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Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker is an enterprise class firewall, VPN gateway and router. Each model offers five gigabit ethernet ports and wireless for connectivity. Cisco now recommends the Meraki Z4 Teleworker.
WatchGuard Network Security, Fortinet FortiGate, and Juniper Enterprise Routers are common alternatives for Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker (discontinued).
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The most common users of Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Great product to connect teleworkers to a safe and secured network. The versatility with dual uplink features, utilizing a SIM Card and the existing WAN connection, is a great way to ensure consistent connectivity for remote workers. If you prefer to connect via cable - you got it. If you prefer to connect via WiFi for more flexibility - you got it. Everything is managed and monitored via a single Management Dashboard.
- Easy setup for remote worker
- Versatility with WiFi and cable connections
- Safe to outages with dual wan setup
- No roaming between MR Access Points and Z3
- No 5G connectivity (already fixed by Z4)
- Secure connection for remote users
- Less connection troubles for remote workers
The Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker allows you to extend your network to the home office. It makes it easier to control and understand the networking experience of critical employees. Allows for an "always on" experience that makes PC management easier. You can deploy handsets and other components in order to mirror an "in office" type of user experience.
- Provide visibility into user home network.
- "Always on" type of network experience without VPN.
- Managed and provisioned through the Cisco Meraki dashboard.
- Certain functions are not available from command line.
- Pricing could be lower.
- Availability varied through the covid pandemic.
- Simplified remote network access experience for remote users. No VPN authentication is needed.
- Additional tools for IT staff to view connectivity from the remote users side.
- Reduced time to resolve issues for IT staff and the users they support.
At the time of implementation, we were not aware of a comparable product from Cisco or comparative vendor. We had initially deployed the Z1 appliance and had so much success that the transition to the Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker was a quick and easy fit for us. The device is easy to deploy and just works.
August 26, 2022
A Zero Touch Provisioning Device
As you know there are a lot of challenges that you need to solve when you have a teleworker. Some of them are: 1.- Zero onsite IT Support 2.- No access to VoIP Telephony (you need VPN) 3.- SaaS Application Performance I would say Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker solved these Challenges and others.
- Zero Touch Provisioning
- VPN Device
- Gateway Device
- Firewall capabilities
- When Internet is lost and come back we need to reset the Z3 device from the dashboard in order to register the IP Phone to CUCM
- It would be nice to manage the Z3 device to a local web portal just for TS
- Max Speed 100Mbps. It would be nice if it could run up to 1GB
- Good visibility for IT team so we can monitor and validate the teleworker traffic
- Zero Touch Provisioning so we do not need to send a Engineer to configure it.
- Consumer-grade network security
- Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800) and Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
With Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800) you can establish VPN connections and maybe integrate the IP Phone to your CUCM; however, you need an expert in place; you need to configure it with tunnels GRE or VPNs for example; you also need to configure other VPN devices on the main site. With Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker you just connect it to the Internet and make some easy configuration from the Meraki Dashboard and are ready.