I’m wondering if there is anyone out there that has used Meraki’s switch platform as an enterprise solution? Ideally, I’d love to hear from someone with multiple campuses and at least 150+ access switches per campus.
The back story on this centers around a comm closet refresh. Currently, we run a mix of 3750s and 3850s, originally the plan was to refresh to all 3850s but we’ve had nothing but problems with that platform. Next, the plan was to go with the new Cat9Ks but someone saw the price tag on Meraki 350m series and now there is a lot of conversation on that side of the isle.
If anyone has worked with both Cat9Ks and Merakis I’d love to hear from you. I’m very interested in all things orchestration related, specifically pushing QoS and 802.1x configs from a central management server. I really like encrypted thread analytics and SDA on the Cat9Ks but I’m hearing that these features ‘just aren’t there yet’.
Our typical comm room refresh rate is 10-12 years so I see more long term potential with the Cat9Ks.
Let me know what you think...thanks!
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