Meraki Dashboard Pros

PT
Sr Solutions Architect at Tektel, Inc
Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place.
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VP
IT Manager at Electrical Wholesalers Edmonton Limited
What I found most valuable in the Meraki Dashboard is straight monitoring of the different devices, as well as the ability to easily set up VPNs, for example, both Meraki client VPNs and non-Meraki VPNs for different organizations that work with my company. I also like that the tool is a really good firewall.
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Pete Grimshaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Developer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving.
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Meraki Dashboard
March 2023
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MR
Senior Advisor at TwentyTwo
We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that.
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MA
Project Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
It's a scalable solution.
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IS
Quality Control Engineer at Casaplex LLC
Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients.
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RB
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running.
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Miguel Pinhal - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Inetum
Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time.
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BahaaEddin Alatrash - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Al Fanar
The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard.
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Rajesh Selvam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was easy.
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Meraki Dashboard Cons

PT
Sr Solutions Architect at Tektel, Inc
Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues.
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VP
IT Manager at Electrical Wholesalers Edmonton Limited
For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much.
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Pete Grimshaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Developer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall.
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Meraki Dashboard
March 2023
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MR
Senior Advisor at TwentyTwo
It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are.
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MA
Project Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Some features could be added.
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IS
Quality Control Engineer at Casaplex LLC
The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done.
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RB
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs.
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Miguel Pinhal - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Inetum
Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult.
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BahaaEddin Alatrash - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Al Fanar
The solution has a limited routing table and needs improvement by increasing the numbers as well as providing a summarization for the table.
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Rajesh Selvam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution can be expensive.
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Buyer's Guide
Meraki Dashboard
March 2023
Learn what your peers think about Meraki Dashboard. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2023.
687,256 professionals have used our research since 2012.