RE: Meraki

["Pedersen, Sean" <Sean.Pedersen () usairways com>]

I started to look into them for personal and limited small business use, but stopped short when I realized their cloud 
management platform is subscription-based. Unless I've missed something, you cannot deploy your own internal management 
platform. It's all licensed through Meraki/Cisco, which means if you lose your Internet connection, you lose management 
access to your gear. That could be a deal-killer in certain environments. Maybe someone with more experience on the 
platform could correct me there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hank Disuko [mailto:gourmetcisco () hotmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:26 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Meraki

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