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Meraki Go

Score9.9 out of 10

37 Reviews and Ratings

What is Meraki Go?

Cisco's Meraki Go offers Indoor and Outdoor Wireless Access Points so you can have fast and reliable WiFi, no matter where your business goes. By incorporating the latest hardware standards, Meraki Go access points simply plug into your network and get to work.

Categories & Use Cases

Cisco Meraki Go is good but regular Meraki is better

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki Go to run all of our remote offices. Cisco Meraki Go allows us to centralize the management of all of our networking products under a single pane of glass. Before Cisco Meraki Go we had several networks that had been set up by different vendors. Each vendor had their own way of managing their network. Cisco Meraki Go allowed us to centralize our management.

Pros

  • Centralized management for several sites
  • Alerting for components with issues
  • Easy to setup

Cons

  • VPN setup is a bit of a pain
  • Logging doesn't work very well
  • Sometimes it is difficult to see where the issues are occurring on the network.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to reduce the amount of effort that went into maintaining our network infrastructure.
  • Cisco Meraki Go's centralized network management tool allowed us to easily manage network licenses.
  • Licensing is expensive in comparison to other networking tools.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Meraki MX, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

Affordable, Ease to Use and Flexibility on the Go.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is best suited for small businesses. Meraki Go is the economical version of other wifi products available from the wifi solutions. They are easy to deploy and very user-friendly to set up too. They provide the state of the art features at a budget scale. This is the best solution for small businesses to manage and control their wifi without having multiple hardware to do so.

Pros

  • Great App Interface.
  • Easy to Install.
  • Great Performance.
  • Economical.

Cons

  • Bundle offers.
  • More models with different specs.
  • Partner offers.

Return on Investment

  • Overall Performance.
  • Easy troubleshooting.
  • No dedicated resource needed to manage Wifi.
  • Attractive pricing compared to other solutions.

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point, Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, Cisco Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points

Meraki Go- Best solution for Small organizations!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since we are a mid-range organization, we are using Cisco Meraki go for managing our Wi-Fi needs. Many Wi-Fi networks can be configured in a very short span of time, It is very fast proving to be a positive impact on our organization. Since it is a plug-and-play solution, it is very affordable for a mid-range organization, like ours.

Pros

  • Manage Wi-Fi devices
  • Very Fast Wi-Fi
  • You can configure many multiple wi-fi networks

Cons

  • For big companies, use cases may be limited.
  • When distance is increased, there may be a slight glitch in connectivity
  • Can be a quite expensive for a growing business

Return on Investment

  • Positive as we are a small organization, it was a very affordable solution
  • Positive impact as it eliminated many IT needs
  • Positive impact as it very secure.

Alternatives Considered

Connectify Hotspot and Ubiquiti Networks UniFi

Other Software Used

Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points, pfSense, Sophos UTM

Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are the system integrators, and we suggest this product for the customers who don’t want extra infrastructure, like wireless LAN controllers, which are extra hardware for the access points. But with Cisco Meraki Go, it will be plug-and-play. Easy to control the devices from any part of the world with the help of a mobile app or a web browser.

Pros

  • Easy to manage
  • Access from anywhere
  • Best in performance
  • Heat maps

Cons

  • Licensing
  • Support

Return on Investment

  • Subscription covers both support and feature license.
  • Reduces man hours.
  • No need to visit the sites.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

Other Software Used

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager), Cisco Catalyst 2960-X/XR Series Switches, Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000), Cisco Webex Board Series, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

Go for Meraki Go!!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We actually have been using it at home replacing our previous Meraki set up. We also use it as recommended set up for SMBs we also support as well since it is a great use case in single site setup with basic VPN etc needs. The fact is has a lot of the same features as Meraki Enterprise, as well as being app and website accessible too helps a lot.

Pros

  • Ease of configuration
  • Deployment
  • Management
  • Remote access

Cons

  • App performance lag
  • Swag
  • Lower cost on Wifi6, there's a massive jump in price for that hardware

Return on Investment

  • Lowers TCO vs Enterprise for those who need to save money in SMB market
  • Able to transition and support Meraki and Merkai Go with little change or adjustment
  • Great in home and SMB, ROI is very quick

Alternatives Considered

Aruba Instant On AP Series Access Points

Other Software Used

Webex App, Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches, Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches, Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker