Cisco Meraki

Avantages

C'est très fiable et très simple à utiliser

Inconvénients

Juste que parfois la connexion balance et sa dérange un peu

Avantages

Intègre des fonctionnalités de sécurité avancées pour protéger les réseaux et les données

Inconvénients

Une connexion Internet stable est essentielle pour profiter pleinement des fonctionnalités cloud

Avantages

Cette fonctionnalité introuvables facilite l'accès

Inconvénients

La connexion bugs parfois et l'application deconne

Avantages

permet de gérer plusieurs équipements de réseau à partir d'une seule interface de gestion en nuage. Il est compatible avec une variété d'équipements de réseau et de protocoles, ce qui permet de l'intégrer facilement dans les environnements existants.

Inconvénients

Dépendance de la connexion internet : Cisco Meraki est un service en nuage, donc vous avez besoin d'une connexion internet stable pour pouvoir accéder à la plateforme de gestion et aux fonctionnalités.

Avantages

Our company focused its eyes on Cisco Meraki for several important reasons such as: minimum infrastructure costs since the implementation does not require the physical installation of advanced equipment or data centers since all the infrastructure is in the cloud, this also eliminates maintenance costs that operationally demanded a considerable investment, secure and highly reliable wireless networks capable of supporting connections under the 802.11 ac standard in the order of Gbps, management from a single central platform and accessible from anywhere in the world.

Inconvénients

The total dependence of the MR devices to the internet connection limits a little the management of our operative personnel that performs the repairs in all the zones, it is clear that for the cases where the internet connection fails, the local access to the access point is operative but when it is required to implement some access policy or special configurations in some points, the access through the central console by an administrator is obligatorily required.

Avantages

Setup of an enterprise MDM was made easy with Meraki SM. The web administration portal was easy to use, and offered us all of the functionality we needed initially, as well as has provided us the opportunity to increase our use over time. 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.

Inconvénients

We have found the location mapping to be unreliable in Meraki SM, despite having our mobile devices all GPS enabled and configured to make location information available to the SM app. The location tracking tends to use cellular location based on IP addressing and tower locations rather than GPS coordinates provided by the device.

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.

The greatest restrictions of the Meraki MDM seem to lie with Apple not making as many centralized management options available as they should, since enterprise use of iOS doesn't seem to be on their list of priorities.

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Avantages

This is a beautiful MDM solution that supports all platforms which is great. There are some features not found elsewhere that make it easy to integrate security functionality with Meraki’s networking stack. Want WPA2 enterprise with TLS? Systems manager makes this seamless.

Inconvénients

Feature set prioritizes integration with Meraki stack. 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. No real features to manage the patch level of devices aside from manually pushing updates each time. Licensing cost fluctuates frequently (it’s free, it’s paid, it’s mostly free but sometimes paid).

Avantages

A single one-stop location for remote management of iOS and other mobile devices and other assets. In particular, monitoring and administrating iOS devices is challenging and this tool has saved countless hours in configuring and deploying and maintaining iPhones in our business.

Inconvénients

The features for updating Apps from the App Store needs improvement.

Avantages

The clean dashboard, ability to view connected devices, and just overall reliability.

Inconvénients

So far nothing, all works good and is easy to manage.

Avantages

I can't say enough that I love at Meraki. The ease of use of the dashboard or being able to make multiple changes on multiple switches across any of the sites within an organization. It cuts down on management tasks immensely.

Inconvénients

I wish they had a blended consumer product that allowed tech savvy home users to be able to setup or protect their home networks without the annual licensing cost.

Avantages

Ease of use, simplicity in it's design, tech support and warranty

Inconvénients

It can be pricey and some customers don't have the budget.

Avantages

Meraki has left a positive mark in our company due to its benefits and the experience that supports it, we have a large number of access points MR distributed in different areas of the city in parks, educational institutions, hospitals and each of them is monitored easily and remotely from the web; thanks to this we can analyze the capacity of connections, radio frequency channel in use, current wifi standard 802. 11 b/g/n/ac, also thanks to the power and stability in the signal emission of each MR we guarantee to the users a clean connection without interruptions that for some of the cases a stable connection is vital.

Inconvénients

With the continuous expansion of our network also demands the inclusion of more MR devices, these are notoriously more expensive although comparing the cost/benefit ratio is worth the investment, however, one of the limitations for this type of network is its close dependence on the internet connection to perform advanced technical configurations on the devices, everything related to ACS configuration, MAC filtering (black or white list) as it does not allow such configurations locally limiting it to communication with the central administration.

Avantages

We can easily configure, manage and monitor our free WIFI networks from a single panel 100% in the cloud, it is easy to add wireless access points to the central panel and exercise control, cisco Meraki allows me to regulate the bandwidth to provide, either by SSID, IP, among others, I can restrict access to specific pages, encrypt networks (AES, WPA, WPA-PSK, etc); our company provides a free service of WiFi Zones located in different parts of the city in parks, shopping malls and other common areas through access point MR18. The support provided is timely and efficient in any circumstance, they respond in a very short time to our requests; I like the advanced security features provided, last but not least, Cisco Meraki provides a very intuitive and modern user interface, in which you can navigate smoothly.

Inconvénients

The purchase price of the equipment and licenses is expensive compared to other competing products but it is well worth the investment as the benefits are many.

Avantages

There are several details for which Cisco Meraki has greatly facilitated our daily work in terms of installation, management and monitoring of access points deployed in remote sites of our customers and is the ease of implementation; it may sound routine but this work is as simple as plug and play, just physically connect the element and in a few minutes the autodiscovery function shows the element to be monitored and parameterized according to customer needs (SSID, Encryption, MAC Filtering, Content Policies, etc).

Inconvénients

There are more benefits than negative points, although I can indicate that the implementation is expensive in its licensing, perhaps for small and medium organizations it would be complex due to the high cost of licenses and equipment.

Avantages

Ease of deployment was minimal. Gear to ship and have users install

Inconvénients

Cost was too high to the overall features

Avantages

Remote Management and Bandwidth Control for users in seperate networks at enterprise and hospitality.

Inconvénients

It was a Little expensive compared to othes but it is sometimes worth the money because of the features and reliability that it provides.

Avantages

What we like the most is the ease of administration and the large number of functions that a single device contains.
We don't worry about software updates and we are always getting new features or improvements. One of the last major ones was the use of SD-WAN and more recently the ability to support VPN Anyconnect.

Inconvénients

I think what we like the least is that sometimes from one computer to another the jumps of products are very drastic to support more users.
The support (TAC) has also not been the best compared to what is received with Cisco products, there is still a lot to improve.

Avantages

Cloud-based management: Cisco Meraki is cloud-based, which makes it easier to manage networks remotely and provides real-time insights into network performance.Scalability: Cisco Meraki can scale to meet the needs of small businesses, large enterprises, and everything in between.Easy setup and deployment: Cisco Meraki has a straightforward setup and deployment process, which makes it easy to get up and running quickly.Integration with other Cisco products: Cisco Meraki integrates well with other Cisco products, such as Cisco security solutions and Cisco collaboration tools, providing a more seamless experience for users.Advanced security features: Cisco Meraki offers advanced security features, such as firewalls, VPNs, and wireless security, to help protect networks and data.Comprehensive reporting and analytics: Cisco Meraki provides detailed reporting and analytics, making it easier to understand network performance and identify potential issues.

Inconvénients

Cost: Cisco Meraki can be expensive compared to other network management solutions.Limited customization options: Some users may find that the customization options in Cisco Meraki are limited, making it difficult to tailor the solution to specific needs.Complexity: Some users may find the interface and features of Cisco Meraki to be complex, which could make it challenging to use for less experienced users.Dependence on cloud connectivity: As a cloud-based solution, Cisco Meraki requires a stable and reliable internet connection to function properly, which could be a concern for some users.Limited support for older hardware: Cisco Meraki may not support older hardware, which could be a concern for users with large fleets of older devices.

Avantages

It has a decent feature set - including remote management of profiles and security features, For both Macs and iOS. The ability to completely lock down and erase the entire device has been nice in a few extreme situations.

The UI is intuitive and easy to use with LOTS of information about the devices being managed.

Inconvénients

Initially we enjoyed the fact that we were given a relatively high if not unlimited (I cannot recall) now, we are billed per device. Which is fine. But the process to obtain the licenses is absolutely ridiculous, takes way too long and they do not allow for our account for an upgrade process. IE client has 20 computers enrolled, and they replace all of them, well you have to get another 20 licenses (paying for 40 computers) and then remove the old computes when they are phased out. Then decrease the license count. There is zero flexibility here, and the vendor was borderline indignant when it was pointed out how this is a problem in the real world.

Avantages

The tracking of devices worked well always was able to tell where devices were located at based on the IP of the device.

Inconvénients

The updating of apps and controlling apps was difficult and did not find it very intuitive.

Avantages

Integration with Meraki Dashboard, free for up to 100 devices which makes it ideal for smaller businesses. Also the ability to remotely end tasks, remote command line, RDP web client, screenshots and useful statistics make this a valuable solution when managing desktops, servers and mobile devices.

Inconvénients

Nothing really, sometimes devices take a few minutes to update in the dashboard but I don't have any complaints about the product. It is updated regularly like most Meraki products and gets better the longer you use it.

Avantages

-Aggregation of MDM policies across iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows platforms make it really easy to deploy the same setting, such as screen lock, to multiple platforms without drilling the per-platform settings
-Supports all iOS MDM settings and is quick to implement new ones as Apple introduces them
-Tagging system is incredibly useful to identify and organize different devices - this is unique to Meraki
-Although we don't have Meraki networking products - they can all be managed from the same dashboard
-Just like most MDM platforms, it offers easy web-based device registration, and syncs with Apple VPP and School Manager

Inconvénients

-Web management dashboard has a steep learning curve and is not very intuitive - a task like deploying a new app to devices involves three or four different management pages
-Pricing is comparable, if not a bit more expensive than other iOS MDMs, but its cross-platform support makes up for this

Avantages

The ability to maintain and manage your networks from anywhere is a real advantage and the access control and ability to resolve issues fast is a real bonus. I cannot recommend this infrastructure solution enough.

Inconvénients

The licensing can be confusing and additions to equipment will move dates about which you should be aware of. Once you understand that dates will move about, it makes it easier, but there should be more warnings.

Avantages

easy to spin up remote systems, all cloud managed and deployed. Plug and Play setup, as well with templated usage, you can deploy in a matter of minutes

Inconvénients

MX firewalls don't provide enough MANUAL OVERRIDES which would be useful. Not as robust as old IOS firewalls for that specific reason.

Avantages

Meraki Systems Manager is designed to be easy to use. From setup time to adding endpoints, everything is easy and quick.
It easily helps to track and, if necessary, remotely wipe lost devices.
I also like the geofence feature as it sends notifications whenever a device leaves the geofenced region.

Inconvénients

Though there has been some improvement in recent years, the system still contains some bugs.
The mobile apps really need to be updated, especially the iOS app.