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.
"Quality of Service is easy to deploy. The ease of deployment, in general, is valuable. It is easy to do port configuration and VLAN assignments."
"Meraki MS Switches are amazing. Whoever built it is a genius. I like that it's a plug-and-play solution."
"I like the support, and basically, that's why I'm using Meraki by Cisco."
"The most valuable features of Meraki MS Switches are ease of use, and we can find technical knowledge easily."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the interface because it is very simple and easy to learn, even for somebody who hasn't seen it before."
"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."
"The product offered a lower CapEx cost for the appliance."
"Great information on the graphical interface."
"We have integrated the tool for PoE switches and non-PoE switches. Its most valuable feature is SD-WAN. UniFi SD-WAN can access all statistics and performance data in one interface, enabling us to support clients across different locations remotely. Additionally, we can even restart devices remotely through the UniFi SD-WAN."
"The solution’s scalability is good."
"The product is seamless and robust."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"It's been working fine, it's been stable, and there are no interruptions."
"I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high."
"The tool's most valuable feature is port security, which allows blocking/disabling ports. The ports also have PoE capability."
"Communication of compliance risk is awkward at best and threatening at worst. It needs to be addressed."
"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."
"Some people would have some reservations about the yearly subscription. Maybe they could offer an option of having a one-off or perpetual license to let people test it and see how it goes."
"In this solution, you are lacking a feature that Cisco Classic has that allows you to save your configuration with a serial cable."
"Meraki should include an application to assist users with the design of access points."
"The pain point for our customers is the pricing and it should be reduced to make it more competitive."
"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 throughputs, especially the throughput path, can be improved on the core switches. I think they should improve the throughput in the core switches to enable higher throughputs."
"The routing capabilities of Layer 3 should be made easier to implement."
"The initial deployment was a bit complex."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches’s pricing could be less expensive."
"If Ubiquiti UniFi Switches had some live support instead of community support, that would go a long way."
"I think they need to provide a better firewall solution."
"It would be helpful to have better visibility into exactly what is going on in the network."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches can improve by putting more effort into security. There are not many options in security. Other solutions, you can filter, do access control, and functionality. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches provides all the basic network security where it's all about the password for someone to access the SSID on the network, but it doesn't go beyond advanced network features of packet filtering, monitoring, and managing users."
"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."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 46 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, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, NETGEAR Switches and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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