Take this with a grain of salt as perhaps they've solved some of their problems we experienced with our deployment about 5 years ago. We switched from Cisco to Meraki in 2013. We had about half the campus (~450 AP's) moved over when we stopped the process in 2015 due to poor performance and poor client roaming. We did a lot of troubleshooting with them, but in our dorm environments it just worked very poorly. We also had strange network behaviors elsewhere on campus especially after certain firmware updates that we had to have Meraki roll back. Also settings set in the dashboard often didn't take immediate effect so plan on setting, waiting a little bit, and then testing. We do use FortiNAC (aka Bradford Network Sentry), but that wasn't the problem. Ultimately we moved to Ruckus and ripped all the Meraki back out and have been very happy with that solution. Meraki does have a nice dashboard, but some configuration is not possible without contacting Meraki directly.
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