[166907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Tue Nov 19 12:57:12 2013
In-Reply-To: <01DEC1DA-4CFB-4852-9194-1A2AC378B526@2600hz.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:56:56 -0600
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: Joshua Goldbard <j@2600hz.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
+1 for Joshua's comments. Used them in a small rollout (~20k sqft of
office space across two buildings), was extremely pleased.
Authentication can tie into OAuth (Google Apps) or LDAP/AD. Email or
SMS alerts for *everything*.
Would highly recommend them.
Brandon
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Joshua Goldbard <j@2600hz.com> wrote:
> I've used them on a bunch of field deployments. Love'em. When clients hav=
e them it makes documenting any part of the experience a technician level t=
ask.
>
> Need a pcap? Built into the GUI. Want the switch to SMS you when ports ge=
t knocked out? Built into the GUI. Do you like visuals that actually make s=
ome goddamn sense? Meraki has it.
>
> I never had to go into the command line for any reason, at least not so f=
ar.
>
> I can say they had some issues detecting the ubiquiti access points at a =
client site but I think that had more to do with faulty internal wiring tha=
n anything else.
>
> Anyways, I like'em.
>
> Cheers,
> Joshua
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Hank Disuko" <gourmetcisco@hotmail.com> wro=
te:
>
>> 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 wi=
ll entail replacing about 20 access switches and a couple core devices. Pr=
etty 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 look=
ing 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 exa=
ctly sure why.
>>
>> Anyway, any thoughts would be useful. Thanks!
>>
>> -Hank
>>
>
