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Cisco Meraki offers the only solution that provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and the entire network from a centralized dashboard. Enforce device security policies, deploy software and apps, and perform remote, live troubleshooting on thousands of managed devices.

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Director of Network Services

Overall we're very happy. Deployments are easy and not having to support controllers has been helpful, although controller based systems do have their advantages.

A GOOD PRODUCT WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT AND I ADD GREAT TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

Operations Manager

The tools for diagnosing and checking network issues are amazing. As well as the granularity of the information displayed to the ability to 'micro manage' the network.

Director of Technology

This is a beautiful MDM solution that supports all platforms which is great.

Assistant Utilities Director

The platform is well designed, simple to use, and responsive. The app management solutions provided through SM are excellent, as well as the user/device options for license assignment and updating.

Account Manager-Sales/Marketing/Consulting

The hard issue that the user interface requires knowledge of how to navigate and setup the systems. This can be difficult if you have no prior training or experience.

IT Manager/Systems Administrator

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to configure the standard settings in the device. If you need help with something that is beyond your personal knowledge level, the support team is great.

IT Analyst

With Cisco Meraki we are able to manage switches and access points in the cloud and from anywhere. The platform has a clean, friendly and easy to use graphic interface.

MIS Dept

The thing I like most about Cisco Meraki is that it had a good "plug & play" usability.

IT Manager

Easy to use and comprehensive tools for managing mobile devices and other assets.

IT Technical Support Specialist

I cannot think of any features that are missing or need to be added.

Support Desk Specialist

We do not use this software for MDM, but it is a quite robust management solution for managing networking equipment, whether you need to manage multiple clients or just one.

IT Support Technician

The software can be used for up to 100 devices without charge making it very good value for money.

Policy pushing over the air is hit or miss, and it can take multiple attempts to get a client device to receive the revised policies.

Vice President of Information Technology

We used a system integrator to obtain it but looking back we could have saved some money doing it ourselves but the quick onboarding and initial setup by the integrator ensured we got running quickly.

Features introduced by Apple or Microsoft at the OS level can take months if not years to finally be implemented. This can cause quite a lag as your user base upgrades.

Technology Support Specialist

It's not as full featured as something like JAMF, but for the variety of systems that it covers and its integration with Meraki I'd say its worth it.

There are some features not found elsewhere that make it easy to integrate security functionality with Meraki’s networking stack.

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There are solutions that allow companies to reduce installation costs, maintenance of an entire IT infrastructure for the provision of services such as wireless access points to schools, universities, concert halls and parks; with Cisco Meraki all these operating costs are reduced to the maximum expression and you have the guarantee that the equipment used are of the highest quality withstanding extreme environmental and physical conditions and still providing very stable connections, with this we can say that Cisco Meraki is a step ahead in terms of wireless connection.

The most reliable solution for managing high-capacity wireless networks

Great solution for our business

It's a powerful and flexible networking solution for businesses of all sizes. Its ease of use and scalability make it an attractive option for many users

A cloud-based flexible and scalable networking solution

There are many benefits of taking our network infrastructure to the cloud, operating costs, software licensing, hardware maintenance, security systems and disaster protection are some of the costs that reduces an organization with such implementation, on the other hand, accessibility from anywhere in the world and manage the network offers very broad possibilities for any IT team, Cisco Meraki in its various products has given us the ability to manage a wireless ecosystem deployed in a fairly large geographical area with the administration from the cloud, this allows us to detect anomalies in real time, view bandwidth consumption in a timely manner and a large number of functions that makes the administrative work of the network a little easier.

A cloud infrastructure that optimizes our services

Cisco hardware is one of the big players for networking, so the hardware performs as expected, especially for small to medium networks. Remote configuration can't be beat.

For large and small networks, you can setup and manage your network easily and securely.

Does it job but recent changes have led us to migrate away

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I have three years of experience working with Cisco Meraki devices (MR, MX, and MS). The initial setup configuration is straightforward. Group Policy can effectively manage users, allowing for both manually applied SSID policies and automatic applied through a Radius server. This is one of the notable features of Cisco Meraki Firewalls.

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Cisco Meraki has allowed our team to manage in a comfortable, proactive and dynamic way our wireless infrastructure (access points); this allows us to quickly configure all kinds of policies either access or security and we have the guarantee of Cisco technical support which have not provided timely assistance when presenting physical difficulties or any specific configuration on any of the devices deployed, in short a tool that is worth using if you want to have a solid infrastructure and ensuring high levels of service to customers.

Secure and centralized management of your access points

Cisco is a little expensive but best as always

Great experience with Enterprise and Hospitality Wi-Fi Systems

All in all, this product is a win-win solution for companies that are looking for easy scale up.

Great product for it's money

We have managed. To reduce travelling cost where at times we would travel to remote offices for configurations. Now this can be done remotely. The organisation realised a lot of savings 

Network Configuration with a click of a button

I work for a managed IT provider, and many of our clients utilize Meraki networking hardware. We do not use this software for MDM, but it is a quite robust management solution for managing networking equipment, whether you need to manage multiple clients or just one. I am not in charge of setting Meraki equipment up (only managing it after setup) but it appears to be easy to set up multiple sites within an organization, and there are a plethora of tools in a fairly easy to use interface to make managing your network easier.

Comprehensive Network Management Tool

A+ with meraki,  i have more than 40 meraki appliances all of them where deployed with no issues at all. I now have full visibility of my network, and can do any config change on the fly with no effort at all.

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Fantastic! I have used Spiceworks and other inventory tools in the past and Meraki Systems Manager suits our requirements the best. As well as monitoring device performance, storage, etc. it allows me to organise devices by tags and really keep on top of my inventory.

Amazing functionality for the value, gives great visibility on devices

We needed a basic iOS MDM for about 50 iPads, and Meraki SM fit the bill with their Free 100 device plan. In a space where most iOS MDMs are the same in features and in price, Systems Manager has unique features like Tags, and allows us to expand our management to Android and Windows, which we will most certainly be taking advantage of in the future.

Great fully-featured cross-platform MDM solution

Moving to Meraki has solved so many network issues and made the entire infrastructure reliable and easy to manage. A move from one office to the other involved no downtime of the network or the VPN thanks to the intelligent interface.

Making networks easy (as usual)

Gold standard for Medium-Large businesses...remote site management

Overall network managing is quite good. It's easy to setup new location. Cloud managment makes it easy to deploy and manage. Single pane of glass gives ability to see all location at one and we can make changes. 
Due to price we limit use only to routers and AP co i can't comment on MDM, switches and other meraki products. 

Easy to manage and deploy

It does the Job, is powerful has several options, but is expensive and the web interface needs some work.

Easiest to use network management

Overall a brilliant product and system, there is a reason we have been using the Meraki products for the past 8 years.

Powerful product in combination with Meraki hardware

We can monitor many products from security to wireless range extenders and increase their continuity.

Manage all your devices from one screen!

Meraki is easier than regular Cisco Wireless.

Director IT

A solid cloud network solution

Ahmer:                                                 Hi, my name is Ahmer. I work for Elithia and I use Meraki for my networking needs, and I rate Meraki number five. I use Meraki for my office networking, for wifi access, for switching, and for my firewalls. We set up all of our network and settings and everything. We ship the hardware to the sites, people unpack it, rack it, mount it and paved on, and voila, we have network up and running. They do not have native Azure active directory integration for authentication, for the user authentication I mean, so we use a cloud radius service to authenticate our users on wifi, on for network access control and whatnot, so that is badly needed in Meraki, and we've been very vocal with the Meraki Support and Community Forum, but it's not happening for the last couple of years, we've been asking for it.

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