We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch 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 main features of Meraki MS Switches are integration, high quality, and hardware guarantee."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Meraki MS Switches have a very user-friendly dashboard and the policies are straightforward for sending them to the devices and blocking sites."
"The product offered a lower CapEx cost for the appliance."
"It offers a compelling solution due to its cloud management capabilities and strong security features."
"Meraki's site-to-site VPN function is phenomenal, and the VLAN is simple to use and set up. If you need the VLAN to sort the networks out, that works very well. The performance is also excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to segment my infrastructure between phones, security systems, and other tasks."
"It makes the management of SSIDs fairly easy."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it has better throughput than its competitors."
"Some of the most valuable features are the simplicity, cost, usability, and power. As a package, it's extremely effective."
"This solution is very similar to the on-premises version making it easy to use for those who know the architect."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The wiki page that describes the scripting and other features is very good."
"The tool has impacted our company's network costs and productivity in a perfect manner and percentage-wise, I can say it is 120 percent."
"The performance has been good."
"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."
"Clients are very confused by technical support. They seem to have trouble reaching Meraki to get the assistance they need."
"The switch capacity needs to be improved."
"It could be easier to use and easier to implement."
"The licensing model needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"The product demonstrates poor price per performance when compared with its competitors."
"When we do any changes to the core switch it causes the devices to reboot."
"The user interface could improve and they should allow a license for IBS."
"In medium to large sectors, there's a necessity for managing aspects like proxy firewalls."
"Stuff that I'd like to be improved is really just training and documentation because I think the feature set is full. Another improvement I'd suggest is that their new, bigger releases should be a bit more stable."
"MikroTik needs to add some features like IPS, mail security, or antivirus, et cetera."
"There has to be more development in the OS. It's complex for this switch as compared to others like Cisco. For NetGear and Cisco, it's easy to adapt the VLAN concept but it should be simplified for MikroTik."
"The port isolation and VLAN need to be improved."
"It happens that you may find your network is down, if you reboot the switch, they come up. However, sometimes, they reset themselves. That's a big issue."
"It would be even better with a centralized management platform."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is ranked 15th in Ethernet Switches with 18 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is rated 8.0. 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 MikroTik Cloud Router Switch writes "Easy to set up, user-friendly, and reliable". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and D-Link Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Netgate TNSR, Huawei Enterprise Routers, Arista Networks Platform and Cisco Enterprise Routers. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. MikroTik Cloud Router Switch report.
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