We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Meraki MS Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that I can completely isolate devices that are compromising the network."
"The product is very secure."
"It is a cheap and secure solution. The job switching and security features are better than other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the breakability after integration with the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the security switch."
"It works really well, I think the equipment is solid, and the help is great."
"I would rate the the ease of management and scalability within our network architecture an eight out of ten, with ten being best."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard because it makes it easy to manage all of the switches. It's easy to turn them up and get it configured."
"It is easy to work with."
"Easy to set up, stable switches with good accessibility that makes it quicker to identify problems, find solutions, and fix problems."
"This is a sophisticated product with easy configuration that can save time and effort."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable features are the cloud and throughput visibility, the ease of configuration, and being able to implement them into our umbrella DNS solution."
"It offers a compelling solution due to its cloud management capabilities and strong security features."
"Setting up a switch can be performed prior to having your hands on the device. Once you purchase a Meraki switch you will get an email from Meraki with a code to add to your dashboard and then you can start setting up your switch so when it arrives it will download its configuration and be all setup."
"In the next release, I would like to see more outdoor products."
"An area for improvement would be the segmentation and network in logic networks."
"The installation is not difficult. However, some features have to be activated from the CLI."
"It would be easier if Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access could be managed via cloud, and this is something that could be improved in this product. Bandwidth display could also be better."
"I believe that stacking, a feature that is available in Huawei and Cisco, is not available in Fortinet products."
"The initial setup is pretty easy; we have built a knowledge base. But there's a learning curve for beginners."
"I'd like to see more integration with different platforms."
"Technical support needs to take a different approach and pricing should appear more competitive."
"Less flexibility than in some other solutions."
"The firewall is not very powerful. The other week, one of the switches only gave one gigabit of output. It's become a concern for our customers."
"The quote-building process is challenging and it needs to be simplified."
"One area where Meraki MS switches could improve is offering smaller switch sizes for distribution switches."
"It is a compact switch, so there are a limited number of ports, and it needs improvement in terms of scalability."
"On the switches, I don't know a whole lot that I would change. Different levels of switches have different layer 2 and layer 3 functionality. It's always nice to have layer 3 functionality across the board if you can, but that drives up the cost. They've got different lines for different amounts of layer 3 functionality. However, on their models that do include full layer 3 access, when you choose to use layer 3 on a switch, it doesn't have the full functioning routing capabilities of an MX firewall. It can be limiting in some of those aspects."
"We have dealt with a few minor bugs."
"Meraki MS Switches could improve if it was an SDN. It will be more flexible and WWE can use one link for specific traffic and another one for other traffic."
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Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is ranked 7th in Ethernet Switches with 41 reviews while Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews. Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is rated 8.2, while Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access writes "It's a strong product that's easy to manage and costs significantly less than competing solutions ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, whereas Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Arista Networks Platform. See our Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access vs. Meraki MS Switches report.
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