Re: Meraki

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

Did you check out ubiquiti's UniFi?

-Mike



> On Nov 19, 2013, at 14:13, Glenn Robuck <techravingmad () gmail com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious if any of you guys have compared Meraki and Xirrus?  We are
> currently in the process of picking new WAPs and have narrowed it down to
> these too.  We are leaning towards Xirrus due to it's modular structure.
> It also has a great user interface.
>
> Anyone else evaluate Xirrus?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Warren Bailey <
> wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:
>
> > They give you a free ap for listening to their pitch.. We love them.
> > Expensive.. But responsive and responsible.. Which is pretty hard to find
> > in Wi-Fi land. Pretty interface and lots of little bells and whistles..
> > They have my vote from what we evaluated (ubnt, Blahblahblah).
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Mobile Device.
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: "Pedersen, Sean" <Sean.Pedersen () usairways com>
> > Date: 11/19/2013 12:00 PM (GMT-09:00)
> > To: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > Subject: RE: Meraki
> >
> >
> > 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