+1 for Joshua's comments. Used them in a small rollout (~20k sqft of office space across two buildings), was extremely pleased. Authentication can tie into OAuth (Google Apps) or LDAP/AD. Email or SMS alerts for *everything*.
Would highly recommend them. Brandon On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Joshua Goldbard <j...@2600hz.com> wrote: > I've used them on a bunch of field deployments. Love'em. When clients have > them it makes documenting any part of the experience a technician level task. > > Need a pcap? Built into the GUI. Want the switch to SMS you when ports get > knocked out? Built into the GUI. Do you like visuals that actually make some > goddamn sense? Meraki has it. > > I never had to go into the command line for any reason, at least not so far. > > I can say they had some issues detecting the ubiquiti access points at a > client site but I think that had more to do with faulty internal wiring than > anything else. > > Anyways, I like'em. > > Cheers, > Joshua > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Hank Disuko" <gourmetci...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I've traditionally been a Cisco Catalyst shop for my switching gear. >> >> I am doing a significant hardware refresh in one of my offices, which will >> entail replacing about 20 access switches and a couple core devices. Pretty >> simple L3 VLAN environment with VRRP/HSRP, on the physical end I have 1G >> fibre/copper and 10G fibre. My core switch of choice will likely be the Cat >> 4500 series. >> >> I'm considering Cisco's Meraki platform for my access layer and I'm looking >> for deployment stories of folks that have deployed Meraki in the >> past...good/bad/ugly kinda stuff. >> >> I know Meraki hardcores were upset when Cisco acquired them, but not exactly >> sure why. >> >> Anyway, any thoughts would be useful. Thanks! >> >> -Hank >> >
