Cisco Meraki Pros and Cons

First and foremost, Meraki is simple. There is no need to maintain a Cisco engineer on staff to manage a large and complicated network. Site to Site VPN, Hot Spares and a plethora of networking and other devices have made Meraki my go to network solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meraki has made PCI compliance a little more difficult. Mainly because some of our equipment is old and not compatible with some of the newer encryptions and methods. With a regular Cisco network, the engineer can usually create a workaround to keep this older equipment properly protected. Without that deep level of control this can't be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco Meraki allows you to convert the WiFi connection into an income channel by offering your customers a permanent connection with the services they are loyal to.

Manage the entire network from a single control panel, Control users, applications and devices, There is no driver hardware or administration software to install or maintain. Secure security infrastructure (compatible with PCI and HIPAA), scalable from small sites to deployments of millions of users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the use that I have had with this technology, I have not found any disadvantage, on the contrary it is very reliable and very easy to use, an easy dashboard to program and configure, maybe the only one is that everything is cloud, and occupies the internet to be configured, wait for it to load the configuration on the internet and replicate it to the desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of deployment, ease of use, excellent customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To some degree there is a lack of autonomy when it comes to certain configuration, like client VPN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Able to locate all phones on the same system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t like that other ios devices are notified when trying to search for just one. If this I’m an be modified in the settings, I am unable to locate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to implement and maintain the Cisco Meraki equipment. We have several AP's of different types deployed around the company. The easy to use web portal helps us keep track of them all and see how much down time they have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They are expensive, I'd like to see them get a little cheaper. Even still we are going to spend more money on them in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of setting up our clients sites, the interface and easy to use GUI available to admins. The ease of setting up VPNs, VLANS, wireless networks make my job alot easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really sure there is anything to dislike up to this point, not sure what to put here but N/A. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firewall, MDM, WIFI protection that works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mobile Device location is delayed interface can use more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been able to reduce our onsite time for engineers deploying remote clinics to under an hour. We have also reduced the number of outages by leveraging the on board SD-WAN with cellular connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some things are "too simple" and you have to call support to get them turned on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cloud management is nothing new - however the implementation of it is terrific. I've used 2 of the security appliances and they have been rock solid for over 5 years. I used to have to reboot my linksys router at least once per day - I can't remember the last time I rebooted the MX router. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The licenses are pricey and it's hard to understand what you get based on the descriptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meraki dashboard is an industry leader!! They are very willing to support home local networks through trial gear which will get you talking to your friends and co-workers. They stand behind their products and rely on grassroots marketing and it works. Meraki is simple to use and really take to heart the plug and play mindset to there products without limiting you on capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meraki does have some top end limitations when you look at the enterprise level. They mainly target small business or specific use case deployments. Their gear is top of the line and reliable, but I would not deploy the entire campus around them as our backbone. There are some limitations in analytics and throughput but you really need to understand your deployment's scale to understand is Meraki is right for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.