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CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] vs Meraki Dashboard comparison

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CA Application Delivery Ana...
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
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Meraki Dashboard
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
69
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reviewer1237194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved
My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.
NF
IT Network Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Cloud-based management has simplified global Wi-Fi operations and improved daily troubleshooting
What I would like to improve in Meraki Dashboard is the template part, which is really helping me to manage at large scale. Integration with AI or native AI functionality would be interesting depending on the price, how far it goes, and how far it shares the information I have. For the rest, it is quite straightforward. The next tool maybe to be integrated, which I do not know if it exists today within Meraki, is IPAM management for IP address management. I do not know if it is part of the roadmap, but it is something I have to use on a dedicated platform, so integrating this would be interesting as well. Finally, I would rate Meraki Dashboard overall as a 9 out of 10. There are still some missing features, but there are also some considerations. I am familiar with the Chinese situation where there is a dedicated portal for China, so if I need to deploy access points in China, I have to connect to a dedicated portal due to the regulations in that country. However, this is not due to Cisco or company policy.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"I find it pretty straightforward and easy to use, especially compared to old, traditional methods."
"For us, it serves as a single pane of glass."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
 

Cons

"Upgrades can be quite complex."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuration can at times be difficult."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"I appreciate the security that has been provided by Meraki, but they specifically require port 80 which is highly vulnerable towards Meraki domain itself, so I would like to remove it."
"Monitoring overload is an area that can be improved. I would like to see an alert event feature that monitors what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"Waiting until an incident happens before being notified is not sufficient."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
"Licensing for Meraki Dashboard is paid every year, and it's on a per-device model that costs roughly $300 to $400 per device, but that comes with full support and troubleshooting, etc. Compared to similar products, Meraki Dashboard is quite high-end, but the costs you pay are all-in."
"The pricing of the tool is relatively high compared to other solutions. It comes with a premium that exceeds that of its competitors by approximately 25 percent."
"Licensing is around under 1000 pounds. The licensing is either one year, three years, five years or ten years and during the licensing, we can choose to renew it per year or per every three years. We've got a license for three years. It's about 160 or about 200 pounds each."
"The Meraki Dashboard has more competitive pricing."
"It is said to be expensive."
"The pricing for a small setup is only a few hundred dollars a year. The fee is subscription-based."
"From a pricing perspective, they are still expensive."
"I’m not sure of the exact cost, however, it’s my understanding the Meraki WiFi is around $800. That’s for a three-year license. It’s about $150 a year."
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Meraki Dashboard?
I find the licensing model of Cisco Meraki acceptable; it seems reasonable to me.
What needs improvement with Meraki Dashboard?
There will always be room for improvement. The AI capabilities will surely create a more proactive approach to incident reporting. AI capabilities present a significant opportunity for improvement ...
What is your primary use case for Meraki Dashboard?
We use Meraki Dashboard, which is a network monitoring software for Cisco Meraki, primarily to monitor Meraki activities, and we also have other monitoring devices across the network. We build a la...
 

Also Known As

CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent
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