[166925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Lazar)
Wed Nov 20 11:26:55 2013
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:26:43 -0800
From: Sean Lazar <knife@toaster.net>
To: Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco@hotmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Meraki did not work for me in a high density office environment, with
heavy wireless usage. Kept dropping clients at peak times. We went with
Aruba.
On 11/19/13 9:25 AM, Hank Disuko wrote:
> 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 will entail replacing about 20 access switches and a couple core devices. Pretty 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 looking 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 exactly sure why.
>
> Anyway, any thoughts would be useful. Thanks!
>
> -Hank
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