Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN Reviews

We use Meraki Wireless LAN to provide wireless services at a school.

Meraki WLAN is easy to deploy, includes a cloud controller, and updates continuously. It also offers high visibility. 

We had one location for over a year, so I was familiar with the console for three years and the wireless solution for over a year.

Meraki WLAN is solid. I can't recall the last time I had to replace an AP or anything like that.

I would say that Meraki WLAN is scalable, but the licensing makes it a little difficult. You can't just add on more APs within your scope. You have to purchase more licenses to scale.

I really only used my sales engineer for support. He was able to answer most of my questions, but he was previously an engineer before, so I didn't have to call them. 

Deployment is straightforward. It requires very little configuration.

The licensing isn't very customer-centric. They may have improved it, but previously, if you forgot to pay on a certain day, your service would be shut off. 

From a purely technical point of view, I would rate Meraki WLAN eight out of 10. If you are considering implementing Meraki, I would suggest considering the size of your team. If you are strapped for resources, I would say go with something else over Cisco. But as far as functionality goes, I would rate it over some of the others, like Juniper and Mist.

I've worked on this solution for a couple of clients who already had it deployed. It has many good features and good integration. This is more of a hybrid setup where the switch takes over a lot of responsibility depending upon what you have deployed. It takes a lot of control and allows for cloud-based management of your Wi-Fi network.

One of the key problems is that, similar to a solution like Ruckus, if you lose connectivity with the controller, your Wi-Fi network is immediately impacted and users are unable to connect to the network. It's a challenge because then your budget inflates as you have to invest in a high availability kind of solution and have more than one controller. If you are spread across a large area geographically, then you may want to have multiple controllers at different sites so that if one fails you always have a backup to go to and you're not dependent on the links that connect to your offices. It can become costly as a result. 

There is nothing much that can change but I believe the hardware could become more economical. The licensing part is okay, and compared to other cloud-managed Wi-Fi's, Meraki is well placed on the pricing, but the hardware costs a bomb. If they could reduce the price of the hardware, the access points, that would be a great benefit for them.

The solution is stable and more secure when you compare it to Ruckus because if you have an MX firewall, you automatically get the firewall features over your Wi-Fi as well. The outcome is that all the data passing through the Wi-Fi definitely passes through the firewall. 

Meraki is quite scalable. 

Thanks to my experience with Wi-Fi, I haven't needed tech support from Meraki. One good point about Meraki and Cisco overall would be the documentation. It's extremely comprehensive so that you don't need to call tech support unless you encounter a specific problem, and you can find most things by doing a Google search.

I believe the initial setup is pretty straightforward although I've never deployed the solution - I've managed it for clients. We currently have three companies that are using this product. From a maintenance perspective, it requires a couple of maintenance staff to keep a tab on the solution, depending upon your work environment. 

Licensing is on an annual basis and there is also the hardware inventory. If the firewall goes down, for example, that could cause a problem. The point of failure and the work involved around it makes it a more costly solution.

For anyone looking for a simple management solution in a geographically spread-out network, Meraki is a good bet compared to Ruckus. However, they lose points on the cost as well as on the complexity of its multiple-tiered structure, where you have an MX firewall or a switch, your Wi-Fi access points, and then the cloud. It's too much and could be as easy as having the cloud and access points, but the product has an additional tier integrated, which makes it somewhat complex.

I would place them at eight out of 10. 

We have a small, growing company, and they're looking for a wireless capability to do typical office stuff, except that now, we're doing a lot more meetings on Teams and Zoom. We often have a setup where a few people in a conference room connect with remote workers on a Teams meeting. We've had some Teams and Zoom calls interrupted due to problems with the wireless and the wide-area network, as well as some other standard internet issues. Meraki is a decent solution for a small company, and we use it in a pretty typical way. We need Teams and Zoom to work, and we need a high level of security because we want our business to remain confidential.

My company has been using Meraki Wireless for several years, but I've only been involved for a year and a half.

I haven't interacted with technical support. I hire third-party technical staff, and they deal with all the actual support.

I rate Cisco Meraki Wireless eight out of 10. My suggestion to anyone looking to implement this kind of solution is to use a smart consultant. I use technical consultants to handle things like picking out a solution. So I have one guy who says Ubiquiti would be a great platform, and the other says they think Meraki is the best platform.

We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for our networking and security.

The solution provides good coverage and identity management. Additionally, the user interface is straightforward.

Overall the solution needs to have more time to mature.

I have been using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN within the last 12 months.

Most of our customers are enterprise companies using this solution.

The initial setup is very easy.

The solution could improve the licensing structure and the price is expensive.

The subscription model needs to improve because when the subscription expires the solution stops working and you are not able to use the product. This needs to improve.

I rate Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN a six out of ten.

I do networking fit-outs for schools. I'm an advisor to about 30,000 schools.

The most valuable thing to me is the stability of the product.

I've been in the business 47 years, and I've been using Meraki for as long as they've been in business, which is about 14 years now.

I don't have an issue. It meets specifications.

I don't get involved on that end of it.

I don't get involved in the setup or installation.

The price could be slightly better, but then again, we negotiate deals every time so the market price isn't really relevant.

I would rate it eight out of 10.

We use the wireless network switches for wireless network communication as concerns our hotel. 

The solution should be more secure. 

It is overpriced and more expensive than Hauwei.

We've been using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for more than two years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have had no problems with the technical support.

Prior to going with the solution, we used Ruckus.

The installation is fine. The solution is easy to install.

It took under five minutes.

Installation can be done on one's own. 

The solution is overly expensive. 

I would recommend the solution to others, unless the price would be competitive. 

We make use of 50 to 100 Meraki units.

I like Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, so I rate it as a six or seven out of ten. 

We primarily use the product as a wireless solution. We only deal with wireless. 

The pricing of the solution is excellent. They tend to offer special pricing, which our clients appreciate.

The product is very reliable and offers great performance. Our clients never complain about it. It doesn't cause any problems.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

It's very easy to manage in the control panel. The option to manage and review the connection in the dashboard is very interesting. This is a very easy way to view the signal and it works online.  

The product works and offers a good connection for the users. 

This is just an option that customers can choose from. There's nothing that special about it. As a basic solution it does the job, however, I can't say it's fabulous.

The stability of the product is good. It doesn't crash or freeze and there are no bugs or glitches. It's a reliable solution.

We also work with Aruba and Ruckus. We offer all three to our clients and they tend to choose which one they want to work with, or which has the best price point for them.

The setup and onboarding process is fine. It's pretty straightforward. I wouldn't describe it as overly complex or difficult. A company shouldn't have any issues with the process. 

The pricing is pretty good. Customers don't seem to mind it. It's reasonable. 

We're partners and resellers.

It's important for us to present to our customer with some options. However, normally, our customers have a specific budget. In this case, we only move with the needs of our customers. In terms of Meraki, Ruckus, Aruba, et cetera, all work fine. We don't have problems. We don't have interference, or need a box reset, or face other kinds of problems.

Overall, I would rate the solution at a four out of ten.

We're using Meraki for our AP. We're also using Meraki for our SD-WAN.

The visibility of the site is most useful.

Its licensing can be better.

I have been using this solution for three years.

It is pretty stable.

We have scaled it. There is no problem.

We have 230 users, and they don't even know that it exists.

It is straightforward and very easy. It is basically plug-and-play.

It is very quick. It probably takes more time to actually do the physical installation. 

I did one site myself. The rest were done by others. They were IT guys.

We have four people for deployment and maintenance. They are SMEs or system specialists.

Its price is okay for an enterprise. Its licensing is the most painful. If you hear anything bad about Cisco, it's about that. We're supposed to be one of the resellers but had to come back down to become a user. It's really bizarre.

We did evaluate other options. It was a long ago.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN an eight out of 10.