[c-nsp] Meraki? is anyone there testing it?

[Orr, Jeff B.]

We are testing it internally to see if it works as well or better than our Cisco controller based wireless for a planned expansion. I am looking forward to comparing the radios head to head in one of our multi floor buildings.

Meraki combines the best of cisco lightweight, ISE, along with content control for our guest wireless.

I see it has Meraki being better for a large scale multi site install with a few APs per site (think retail or finance). 

Cisco traditional lightweight wins hands down in a dense install with lots of clients or real time (I.e, voice / video). This might be healthcare/hospitals, large dense educational, etc.

A very large international retail company nearby just went with Meraki for all of their stores (1000+) and I have heard good things so far. 

Jeff 


On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Luis Miguel Cruz Miranda <luismcm at imasd.net> wrote:

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> I just saw a service/product line from Cisco called Meraki.
> Looks promising but... considering how everything is getting mad with
> Snowden revelations... does it make sense to manage the network with a
> cloud app? further more, Meraki availability is just based on "link"
> to internet, no link, no management, I think it is highly risky but
> who knows.
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> Anyone there testing it?
> I am curious.
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