[166911] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pedersen, Sean)
Tue Nov 19 15:58:45 2013
From: "Pedersen, Sean" <Sean.Pedersen@usairways.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:58:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: <BLU180-W90FEB28A006AFDA2ABE4C2C9E70@phx.gbl>
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I started to look into them for personal and limited small business use, bu=
t stopped short when I realized their cloud management platform is subscrip=
tion-based. Unless I've missed something, you cannot deploy your own intern=
al management platform. It's all licensed through Meraki/Cisco, which means=
if you lose your Internet connection, you lose management access to your g=
ear. That could be a deal-killer in certain environments. Maybe someone wit=
h more experience on the platform could correct me there.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hank Disuko [mailto:gourmetcisco@hotmail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:26 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Meraki
Hi folks,=20
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I've traditionally been a Cisco Catalyst shop for my switching gear.
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I am doing a significant hardware refresh in one of my offices, which will =
entail replacing about 20 access switches and a couple core devices. Prett=
y 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 Ca=
t 4500 series.
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I'm considering Cisco's Meraki platform for my access layer and I'm looking=
for deployment stories of folks that have deployed Meraki in the past...go=
od/bad/ugly kinda stuff.
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I know Meraki hardcores were upset when Cisco acquired them, but not exactl=
y sure why.
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Anyway, any thoughts would be useful. Thanks!
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-Hank
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