We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and Ubiquiti Unifi Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ubiquiti UniFi Switches finish slightly ahead of Meraki MS Switches in this comparison. Ubiquiti provides great flexibility with configurations and has excellent throughput. Some Meraki MS Switches users feel that traffic reporting needs to improve and that the switches can be a bit buggy.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to segment my infrastructure between phones, security systems, and other tasks."
"Easy to set up, stable switches with good accessibility that makes it quicker to identify problems, find solutions, and fix problems."
"It is easy to configure and claim the switches by their serial number directly from the portal."
"With Meraki, there is the advantage that you have dashboard access via the internet and you can work on it from anywhere."
"The top feature of Meraki MS switches for me is Layer 7 application visibility. Another positive in general is that you don't need to set up a console to the switch itself; it dials in to a single dashboard where you can completely manage all your network devices."
"The management is cloud-based so you do not have to be on-premises to work with it."
"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."
"This product has QoS, decent visibility of what's going on, and it's a managed switch."
"The user interface makes it simple to configure and manage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its reliability."
"For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily."
"The solution’s scalability is good."
"The solution is very reliable and stable."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I would gladly recommend Ubiquiti UniFi Switches."
"Good price point and very simple to use."
"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."
"We had some dashboard licensing issues, maybe because their method of collecting data from the user needs to be more streamlined."
"Technical support hold times seem to be getting longer."
"I don't like some of the mobile device management options. They're a little bit hard to find in the system."
"Mandatory maintenance is an area that needs improvement."
"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."
"Meraki MS switches are great for pretty much all SMB networks and most enterprise networks. However, there are some higher-end functions that larger enterprise networks with full access, distribution, and core switch stack may find limiting."
"It would be good to include the command-line access someday."
"It would be beneficial for us if Ubiquiti had a team of advanced data transportation specialists that we could get feedback from. We are not experts in data transportation, so having this sort of resource would be helpful for us."
"I would like to see the pricing improved."
"Some of the features needed to set up the solution are too complex. There's a lot of technical information that is required."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I think they need to provide a better firewall solution."
"New products don't integrate well with their management platform. Sometimes you have to go directly to the box or the switch to do the management."
"We've had issues with the power supply. I've had to change the power supply twice. I'm not sure what the issue is. We're still trying to work out why we're having problems with the switches and the cutting of the power supply. The solution should look into this to see if there is something wrong with the product."
"There is room for improvement in terms fo customer service and support."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 43 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while Ubiquiti UniFi 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 Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Offers a good controller, seamless design and easy to deploy ". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and Luxul Switches. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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