Re: Meraki

[Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

+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" <gourmetcisco () 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