We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Mist AI and Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"It's a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity in navigating through the dashboard. It's well set out, and the layout is nice and user friendly. A lot of clients enjoy seeing layer 7 visibility. They get a good indication and insight into what is happening in their network and what applications are being used the most. They can then customize and give preference to business-critical applications."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"Has an extremely good feature set."
"Mist AI and Cloud is the best solution I have seen in the industry, especially from the artificial intelligence perspective, as it helps businesses."
"AI is the most valuable feature."
"It's really easy to provision and support. Those are its main features."
"The cost is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Natural language patching is an important feature."
"The Marvis feature of Mist AI, an artificial intelligence tool, is very useful."
"If you compare wired versus wireless, it's convenient. You don't need to have one place for connectivity. You can move around and it's easier. Sometimes it's a hassle to work with wires, which is why wireless is so convenient."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"If I am a user and I have a seat on the fourth floor, if I move across the building, the system should be able to track me and should be able to figure out my whereabouts or my position within the building if I'm connected to the wireless. That would make the administrator's life easier in terms of reachability."
"Mist AI and Cloud should be marketed more and focus on making partners in the industry."
"The inter-functionality with other vendors was a negative for us."
"In future releases, they need to add some router models. Because currently, it supports only SSR and WAN routers. But adding other routers would be good."
"Mist AI and Cloud should improve its integrations."
"The solution has various licensing policies. It will be easy to use if it is an open single license."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"If there's one thing I'd like to change, it's the pricing. They are quite expensive, but honestly, it's justified by the value they provide. However, for a simple Wi-Fi connectivity with basic security needs, there are alternatives in the market that offer comparable features at a more budget-friendly price."
"It would be beneficial to have support for the Chinese language."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Mist AI and Cloud is ranked 7th in Wireless LAN with 21 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Mist AI and Cloud is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mist AI and Cloud writes "A combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Mist AI and Cloud is most compared with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Aruba Wireless, Cisco Wireless, ExtremeCloud IQ and Zabbix.
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