We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and NETGEAR 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."These switches are not expensive and their configuration is very easy. You can provision them on the dashboard, then you just connect them to everything."
"The solution is scalable and can accommodate as many devices as needed."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You only need two people for deployment and maintenance."
"I like that I can patch and manage them remotely from the user portal."
"Easy access to the solution is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The most beneficial features of Meraki MS Switches are the visibility and convenience they provide."
"There is a lot of helpful documentation that helps with the configuration process."
"Netgear switches are highly reliable. We haven't done anything particularly sophisticated with them."
"The stability is good. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the fully functional IGMP snooping and querier, out-of-the-box, that the switch provides. With most if not all switches that we've worked with previously, at a minimum you have to enable a couple of different options... It's really a good feature to have that stuff enabled and fully functional out-of-the-box so that [AV techs] don't have to worry about configuring any of that stuff."
"Their online portal is one of the most useful features. The portal is very user-friendly, so even someone with not a lot of tech experience can go in and see what's going on with the switch."
"The remote management tools are fantastic. The combination of the webpage as well as the app makes life so much easier. I don't need to go and visit sites to do upgrades or any sorts of changes. The firmware can all be deployed remotely. I can see the traffic on each of the switch ports remotely as well, so I can see if we've got problems, down to an individual port. It's very granular."
"The ease of use of these switches is very good because of the Cisco CLI. If you are familiar with CLI, then you can configure the switch that way. It also has a relatively straightforward web interface. Using the web interface is good for beginners or people who aren't familiar with Cisco CLI. However, having a common command line interface method is great for some of our more advanced guys who are familiar with it."
"The tool is very easy to deploy as it is a very basic switch."
"One area where Meraki MS switches could improve is offering smaller switch sizes for distribution switches."
"I don't think that the cost is a problem, but sometimes the price requires convincing the customer of the value."
"I would like to add a voice capability to Meraki, to make a call or receive a call."
"I've had some hardware failure issues on the POE side on several switches across the years. There seems to be a problem with the POE ports of their unit system."
"The biggest area that they fall short on is comparing the performance."
"The pain point for our customers is the pricing and it should be reduced to make it more competitive."
"Meraki MS Switches could improve the process of installing firmware."
"We aren't missing any features."
"There's a lack of chips and, consequently, a lack of deliveries. They're out of stock at their European warehouse."
"Being able to pass AVB traffic over these switches, that would be a huge add. There are not many switches out that support that. The GS728TP NETGEAR switches used to or still do support AVB, but it would be ideal if the 4300 Series could support it as well."
"The product's scalability has certain shortcomings that can be improved."
"When the power does go out, or if we do a soft shutdown, some of the transceivers or the monitor don't recognize when it turns back on, so I have to physically unplug it and plug it back in and then it works. We're working with NETGEAR's engineers to figure out why that's happening."
"I'd like to see a little bit of slowdown on the firmware updates. They've been doing a lot of them. I don't know if that's just because it's such a new product line, but the firmware updates have been a little annoying because they've been coming once a week. For a switch, that's a little extreme."
"The solution needs centralized management and centralized configuration."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
"I would like an email notification in case of errors or failures. If it was possible for the switch to email out an error log or notification note, especially in cases where we have the switches offsite (on the other side of town), then if something was to go wrong, it would be great to know about it before our client goes to use it for a big event, and it doesn't work. While I know that it does do SNMP, which is sort of standard, in the AV world, that is not always an option for us. We are usually running our own little network box and don't always have access to an SNMP server. We may just have simple Internet access or something similar."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Arista Networks Platform, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and Luxul Switches. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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