Experience with Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point
June 07, 2024

Experience with Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

Simplify the network architecture and speed of deployment combines with easy remote visibility and management of the wireless infrastructure. Most of the wireless configuration uses standard parameters or settings with effort made specifically to reduce the complexity and customization of the configuration. Easy navigations through intuitive dashboards makes remote support easy to provide keeping end users and executive management happy.

Pros

  • Fast and easy AP onboarding
  • Floor plan and AP placement integration with tools like Ekahau and Hamina
  • Intuitive interface to configure and support WLAN

Cons

  • Faster boot time
  • Full access to all APIs
  • Tightest AI integration to bubble issues and resolution to main screen versus simply displaying dashboards that I have to drill through
  • Migrate to all wireless office >$10M savings from not needing to refresh or license edge switching infrastructure
  • Advanced licensing requires are APs in org to be licensed, which can be cost prohibitive to buying Advanced license
  • Flexible work life balance for employees are greater satisfaction knowing the can troubleshoot or resolve issues remotely if required
Benefits from Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point allow a team of or individual IT professional (s) to manage and maintain a Cisco Meraki Wireless Infrastructure with ease. From the wireless side there is a single interface that is relatively fast and responsive to queries and database looks ups. Workflows are optimized to perform tasks once using a single source of truth with importing floor plans, AP names and AP positions from tools like Ehakau and Hamina.
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) offers a tremendous level of control for authentication and authorization. Unfortunately, it is required when using powerful features like multi pre-shared key (mPSK) - a feature offering tremendous flexibility to deploy IoT/IIoT based devices which only have mechanisms to add PSK only (with no support for 802.1X).
Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Points can easily be added to a cloud instance at scale, but there are some limitations with sufficiently large deployments in which APs have to be logically separated into different shards. This is admittedly and unique situation for a few number of clients, but those clients have massively large deployments and this scalability concerns does place some limits and consistent implementation. There is a workaround using a manager of managers, but this is not the same.

Do you think Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points's feature set?

No

Did Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points again?

Yes

Cisco controller EoL/EoSupport and looking for a WLAN refresh. Some particular scenarios have 10s of 1000s of APs deployed over 500 sites. Some existing modern APs can be migrated over to the cloud and smaller sites will receive hardware forklifts to refresh with native cloud experience. Meraki cloud is not appropriate for OT environments with critical control systems that require isolation from Enterprise and greater internet.

Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
8.3
Zero-Touch Provisioning
8
WLAN Performance Monitoring
7
Topology Maps
9
Layer 7 Visibility
8
Power over Ethernet Support
10
Wireless Security
8

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