Re: Meraki

[Sean Lazar <knife () toaster net>]

Meraki did not work for me in a high density office environment, with
heavy wireless usage. Kept dropping clients at peak times. We went with
Aruba.

On 11/19/13 9:25 AM, Hank Disuko 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
>