>They have the ability to shut down your infrastructure. That was one of my sticking points as well especially as a lot of my garage clients really hate continuing fees for hardware. >They host the web site that controls your infrastructure. I am not totally comfortable with that either but for my garage clients it was a plus as that meant one place to go to manage multiple APs. Your first augment against the device really killed it for my clients. Updates can be controlled if you want to control them. The setup was not super easy but once you begin to understand their terms and the way the device operates out of the box it becomes easier. I worked with Cisco switches and firewalls and their language was NOT the Meraki language even though Cisco now owns the company. The physical device will take some abuse and keep functioning. Try 100+ degrees at 50 to 85% humidity with most and they just shut down. The Meraki kept working. Jon
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 12:48:20 -0700 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Opinions on the Best wireless - Meraki | Ruckus | Cisco | Aruba | other? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Two strikes, and Meraki is out. They have the ability to shut down your infrastructure. They host the web site that controls your infrastructure. NFW. Either of those would be a deal breaker for me. Kurt On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: You should be able to get a Meraki pretty easy for free by "attending" an online seminar. That said Meraki has a licensing issue, at least to me, that requires you to keep the license paid or they shutdown the AP. If you are willing to go that route then having control web based (outside web site that they own) is nice. Reports they generate can be customized to some degree, and their web site will report when you have an outage to email and maybe SMS. A nice touch to this is you can turn on a separate VLAN just for guests that have different connection keys. Jon From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Opinions on the Best wireless - Meraki | Ruckus | Cisco | Aruba | other? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:46:13 +0000 I'm shopping for a new internal wireless solution and was wondering if anyone here has opinions on what's the best gear right now. I've been looking at traditional Cisco gear(55xx controllers, 37xx APs), Meraki, Ruckus, and Aruba is on my list to look at. Everything seems to have pluses and minuses. Does anyone have opinions on what gear they like, what to avoid? Thanks, Jon Jon Derrenbacker | CISSP | Sr. Systems Engineer | Manager | Keiter 4401 Dominion Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Glen Allen, VA 23060 phone: 804-273-6221 | fax: 804-747-3632 | keitercpa.com Encrypted File Upload Experience | Knowledge | Relationships | Insight Unless the above message (“this message”) expressly provides that the statements contained therein and in any attachments thereto (“the statements”) are intended to constitute written tax advice within the meaning of IRS Circular 230 § 10.37, the sender intends by this message to communicate general information for discussion purposes only, and you should not, therefore, interpret the statements to be written tax advice or rely on the statements for any purpose. The sender will conclude that you have understood and acknowledged this important cautionary notice unless you communicate to the sender any questions you may have in a direct electronic reply to this message. Note: This communication, including any attachments, may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe you have received this communication in error, do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information contained within. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
