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Old 12-09-2012, 07:31 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
I only suggested it because Azure mentioned it was for work use - and it's definitely affordable in a small office scenario (it's borderline affordable for home - I know a number of network & hardware geeks at work that are eyeballing them).

It's a bit unreal how easy they are to configure - I had a 3 node mesh VPN setup deployed in under 45 minutes, including WAN acceleration on two of the nodes. Lots of other benefits we're just starting to look at, like the self-healing, configuration management, PCI compliance checking, secure client check-in, etc.

The other neat thing is that their devices are lifetime warranty - a device breaks, they cross-ship you another one.

Very impressed so far with what I've seen of their gear. Their engineers are unbelievably approachable and communicative too.
I'm a little bit annoyed that they just got bought out by Cisco, but apparently they've been told they'll be left alone to continue doing their own thing and they'll be Cisco's "cloud division."

Not sure I'm overly happy about that. Like you say, Meraki is incredibly approachable and they have that cool start-up vibe to them that I like.
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