We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and Ubiquiti Unifi Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ubiquiti UniFi Switches finish slightly ahead of Meraki MS Switches in this comparison. Ubiquiti provides great flexibility with configurations and has excellent throughput. Some Meraki MS Switches users feel that traffic reporting needs to improve and that the switches can be a bit buggy.
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MS Switches is user-friendliness."
"The dashboard and the interface, in general, are good features."
"The solution is scalable and can accommodate as many devices as needed."
"The most valuable feature is the granular visibility that they provide with a single pane of glass."
"The product is very straightforward."
"They're easy to update."
"The switch supports various automation testing tools, and it's quite helpful for network troubleshooting as well."
"Meraki MS Switches are amazing. Whoever built it is a genius. I like that it's a plug-and-play solution."
"It's been working fine, it's been stable, and there are no interruptions."
"The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is the graphic user interface for monitoring, where you can see the status of the device in real-time. I use those features across the campus. I use the APs as my beacons to tell me whether the area of the school of the network is down or not. Those will be the first to alert me that there is a problem with the network or a device. They provide me with more than only monitoring themselves, I use them in order to monitor all the devices."
"I can see which ports are connected and which ones are disconnected."
"Good price point and very simple to use."
"It's very easy to deploy – much easier than MikroTik. It's very seamless and well-designed."
"I like the control one has with this solution."
"The user interface makes it simple to configure and manage."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Better alerting capabilities are needed because they do not provide enough notification or detail about events."
"Technical support hold times seem to be getting longer."
"They tend to have some weird issues with fiber uplinks."
"Some people would have some reservations about the yearly subscription. Maybe they could offer an option of having a one-off or perpetual license to let people test it and see how it goes."
"The lead time for delivery can be a challenge, and there is room for improvement in this area."
"In reference to an area of improvement sometimes the switch does not connect to the internet initially."
"The firewall is not very powerful. The other week, one of the switches only gave one gigabit of output. It's become a concern for our customers."
"The licensing model needs to be improved."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches’s pricing could be less expensive."
"Ubiquiti tends to end-of-life things faster than other companies do. Cisco tends to be in the 8-, 10-, 12-year time frame, and Ubiquiti tends to be in the 4- or 5-year time frame."
"There is currently an issue with supply of switches which needs to be sorted out."
"New products don't integrate well with their management platform. Sometimes you have to go directly to the box or the switch to do the management."
"I would recommend changing the solution to a recognized one, such as Check Point or Fortinet."
"I had some initial problems with the configuration that necessitated contacting technical support."
"The price could be lower."
"The initial deployment was a bit complex."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 43 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Rock solid stability with adjustable voltage configuration for PoE". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and Luxul Switches. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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