Meraki SD-WAN Reviews

We are a reseller and Meraki SD-WAN is one of the products that I design and offer to my customers.

Meraki SD-WAN is used to connect office branches.

When I design solutions for my customers, I prefer to offer them a Meraki product to use in their environment.

In my experience, Meraki is very easy, simple, and clear to set up and use.

From my clients, I've heard that the most valuable feature is the simplicity.

There is a point in a very large organization where you hit the VPN limit, or tunnel limit.

I have been working with Meraki SD-WAN over the course of approximately five years.

The feedback that I have received is that it's a pretty stable solution.

When you log a support case with Cisco, they provide quick assistance.

I have not dealt with technical support myself but from the technical staff that we have, it sounds like the support is good.

The feedback that I have received is that it's pretty easy to deploy.

The orchestrator is hosted by Cisco and the platform is hosted by Meraki.

We have an in-house team that is responsible for deployment.

The licensing model is a fair one, although having the hardware means nothing without the license. You need to continue to pay licensing fees.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product would vary depending on the environment. I would make sure that if the customer is using a more mature firewall capability, to verify that Meraki can address some of those features. I would want to see what the customer is accustomed to in terms of functionality and that they don't downgrade.

I would rate Meraki SD-WAN and eight out of ten.

I'm a vendor. I sell the solution to clients. 

A lot of our customers really enjoy the Meraki Dashboard. It’s a single pane of glass. If you have their wireless, you have their switching; you have their cameras, you have their firewalls, then you do get a single pane of glass - which is a really strong talking point for us with our customers.

People are struggling a little bit with the lead times right now. It’s hard to actually get the hardware. There’s a long waiting list. That said, I’m unsure as to if that's anything that any manufacturer could really control right now.

Meraki is not viewed as an enterprise solution. It's more of a medium SMB-type solution. Although that really shouldn't be the case, I do see that it has that stigma associated with it.

I wish I was selling more of it, but I don't. We have a number of different types of vendors. It is something we sell. However, I have not personally sold a lot of it.

The solution is stable. There aren’t bugs or glitches, and it doesn’t crash or freeze. It is reliable.

The solution is quite scalable even though potential clients see it as a good solution for SMBs. It has the power to work for enterprises. It can scale.

Tech support is good. It's strong.

We sell Cisco access points and Meraki access points. With Cisco, the solution we deal with is called Viptela.

The initial setup is very, very straightforward. You set it and forget it. It’s probably easier than any other solution.

You probably don't have more than one or two people associated with maintenance. It would depend on the size of the environment. Obviously, for an enterprise customer like Starbucks, you’ve got to have hands-on people available. However, if you're just a local Chicago company like us, then I would say that it’s fine to have minimal people - usually admins - on maintenance.

We are a Cisco Gold partner.

I’d recommend the solution. I’d rate it eight out of ten.

It's typically a better solution for a company that has multiple locations. If you are a company with a headquarters and then you have locations across the country or the world, that would be the best time to look into SD-WAN. I would also say that SD-WAN is not just a wireless solution. It is also a security solution.

Meraki SD-WAN serves as our SD-WAN. As I previously stated, we have over a thousand retail stores across the country, and we have Cisco Meraki at each one. 

I'm not particularly close to it. Because our infrastructure team is in charge of that. I'm more on the information security side. But, from what I understand, the product works well and there isn't much that can be done to improve it.

More automation is always a good thing, but I'm not particularly close to the Meraki. That is more of an infrastructure team's responsibility. I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing.

We have over a thousand retail locations across the country, and we use Cisco Meraki for our SD-WAN solutions in all of them.

While I am new to the company and have only been with them for five months, I have been using this solution for a few years.

We are working with the latest version.

I'm not directly involved in SD-WAN monitoring and maintenance, but based on what I've heard from our infrastructure team, it's working well.

Meraki SD-WAN is a stable solution.

Meraki SD-WAN is scalable.

We have approximately 4,000 users in our company.

I have not contacted technical support. That is something that our infrastructure team handles.

We do not use Juniper.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I am not aware of the licensing fees.

I would rate Meraki SD-WAN a nine out of ten.

We are partners with Cisco Meraki. Our clients need to centralize the administration.

We have seven engineers assigned to maintain and deploy this solution.

Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly.

I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN.

Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution.

Customer support is very good.

Positive

The initial setup is easy to configure.

The price of this solution is good, it is not expensive.

I would rate this product a 10 out of 10.

The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages.

There should be a few more options for security parameters. It is currently not very customizable. It should be a little bit more customizable. 

I have been using this solution for around four years. I am currently using its latest version.

It is very stable.

It is scalable.

Their support is good.

It is very simple.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

What we do is, we sell Meraki SD-WAN to our customers as a service and they use it for multiple purposes. For example, they use it for data, voice traffic, video, and services that are now in their data centers.

Meraki SD-WAN could improve on the lead time, but this is not a problem only with Cisco. there's a global shortage of chipsets. Additionally, the solution has limited features. It's quite a standard product and not very easily upgradeable or stackable. 

We have not been using Meraki SD-WAN very long.

Meraki SD-WAN is stable and the performance is good.

The scalability of Meraki SD-WAN is limited, it could improve.

I typically work with large business accounts which use Meraki SD-WAN. However, I have colleagues who have many accounts with smaller businesses that use Meraki SD-WAN. The solution is suitable for small to large businesses. We sell to small and medium businesses when they demand less complexity.

We have used the support from Cisco for our clients and they are very good. We know them quite well.

The implementation of the solution is rather standard. It is not difficult.

We do the implementation and support of the solution.

One of the most valuable aspects of Meraki SD-WAN is the price. It is highly cost-effective.

Meraki SD-WAN is a perfect fit for those customers who want to implement SD-WAN with competitive pricing. There is not much demand when it comes to complexity and additional features. If customers want a standard SD-WAN solution, Meraki SD-WAN is a perfect fit for those customers.

I rate Meraki SD-WAN an eight out of ten.

We are a system integrator and Meraki SD-WAN is one of the products that we have implemented for our clients.

One of our simple use cases is an ISP environment where they required redundant connectivity.

The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration.

The management can be done through the cloud.

It is easy to monitor and manage.

This vendor has issues with the supply chain that need to be improved.

I have been working with Meraki SD-WAN for approximately a year and a half.

For the small environments that we have used it in, this has been a stable product.

We have not really used this solution in any big deployments. As such, we haven't needed to scale it up.

We have set it up for approximately four clients of varying sizes.

We have never had to contact technical support.

I have also been working with the Fortinet SD-WAN for the past two to three years.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

In the environment that we most recently set it up in, the deployment took perhaps half a day.

We implement this product for our customers.

We also offer after-sales support. Each customer has what we call technical account managers. These are engineers with a post-sales function.

Our clients pay Meraki an annual licensing fee and the pricing is not too bad when compared to other products in the Cisco portfolio.

This is a product that I recommend. My advice for anybody who is interested in this product is that if you want a simple to configure SD-WAN deployment that's easy to monitor and manage, Meraki is a good fit.

That said, the price could always be better.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

The primary use cases are bandwidth management, link aggregation, firewall features, and centralized monitoring.

The most valuable feature is the firewall capability. It's also got a very good graphical user interface and is very easy to manage.

An area for improvement would be to add 4G bonding and allow Meraki devices to support dual 4G SIM cards.

I've been working with Meraki for around two years.

The stability is very good.

This solution is very scalable.

Meraki does not have a very good support system in India.

The initial setup is simple, except that we don't have a proper point of contact in India who can address our questions properly.

Meraki's pricing is on the higher side, which may limit who can afford to use them.

We've had some problems with deliveries and with a lack of clarity on the vendors' part about timescales, which has created problems between us and our customers. I think this solution is best suited for small-to-medium enterprises, but it's good for big companies too. I would rate it as eight out of ten.

We are customers of Meraki and I'm the company product manager. 

Meraki has a sexy interface, they've done a great job with it. 

The solution sometimes drops VoIP calls, which is a nuisance. The solution is not true SD-WAN, rather L3 VPNs. All they do is put a wrapper around it so that you don't have to configure it, but it lacks controllers. 

The solution is stable, despite the occasional VoiP dropouts. 

The solution is scalable. 

The company provides excellent technical support. 

Positive

It is pretty easy to set up with the caveat that it's not really SD-WAN.

This is not a cheap solution. Cisco has never tried to be a price leader, it's not their focus.

If a company is looking for a true automated failover, it's important to ask some very pointed questions before purchasing it.

I rate the solution seven out of 10. 

We are resellers, meaning we are a certified partner of Meraki and, as such, it is my job to sell Meraki products to our customers on the Korean market. Occasionally, I encounter issues concerning the price. It would be good if the price were more attractive to the market. The pricing is not that cost-effective to the customer. 

Cisco potential or actual customers who use Cisco classing models, such as 2,900 switches and other routers, must consider the management of the Cisco product in respect of the desired implementation and not just the classing models. It would be much better were Meraki to provide comprehensive virtual management tools. 

The Cisco market team provides customers with any technical support they may need. Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally, since there are certain issues we have encountered when opening a ticket.

We have been using Meraki SD-WAN for more than five years.

When it comes to the question of the solution's broader stability, I would state that it is stable. Cisco classic models boast the best stability, although Meraki is also fine. I can say that it is quite stable, as well. 

The solution is scalable. 

The Cisco market team provides customers with any technical support they may need. Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally, since there are certain issues we have encountered when opening a ticket. 

From the perspective of the customer, the price is not terribly cost-effective. It should be more attractive to the market. 

We use the solution both in our company and in those of our customers. 

I am very happy with the solution. Meraki is one of the innovative products. 

There are two people working with the product in our company. 

As I am not a technical person, I cannot comment on these aspects of the solution, although I can state that Viptela provides the depth and additional functions and features which Meraki SD-WAN lacks. The latter is more suited to the need to have just some basic pictures of SD-WAN. 

I rate Meraki SD-WAN as an eight out of ten.