We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and MikroTik Routers and 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."The product offered a lower CapEx cost for the appliance."
"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."
"I like the support, and basically, that's why I'm using Meraki by Cisco."
"The most valuable feature is the granular visibility that they provide with a single pane of glass."
"I like that I can patch and manage them remotely from the user portal."
"Meraki MS Switches is easy to use and implement."
"It offers a compelling solution due to its cloud management capabilities and strong security features."
"It is easy to deploy, maintain, and update. It has been trouble-free so far. I am still a Cisco command-line bigot, but the web interface makes it a lot easier for our help desk to interact with a client. When the clients call in and say that they aren't able to connect, it takes the help desk 10 minutes or less to look at everything in the enterprise or location. They can look at the firewall, switches, or access points in the dashboard. That's why I like the dashboard."
"The stability is good."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches are good and easy to use."
"They use wireless and wired connections that include all of the features."
"The most valuable feature is its bandwidth management ability."
"It has a lot of features. I haven't explored them all yet."
"The best part about MikroTik Routers is the price."
"They have amazing speed and reliability, and they also provide value for money. They are pretty powerful."
"They are very good at providing the bandwidth for multi-tenants and multi-dwelling units. We're managing WiFi hotspots for hundreds of locations, and the speed and performance are quite there. They also have very cheap 10G products that come with really good and flexible software. They are way cheaper than the top brands, and they're able to deliver the same performance and capabilities."
"One area where Meraki MS switches could improve is offering smaller switch sizes for distribution switches."
"It might be perceived as more of a niche product, partly due to its name, as it's still not entirely recognized by the market."
"We have dealt with a few minor bugs."
"Communication of compliance risk is awkward at best and threatening at worst. It needs to be addressed."
"If they added the option to manage it locally, not in the cloud, it would be better."
"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 pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The solution could be simplified a bit."
"The interface for management could be improved."
"It would be very good if these products are accessible via different kinds of shells and GUI. It will make these solutions very usable."
"They lack the extended warranty for the equipment. They only provide a warranty for one year as compared to the other vendors who offer a warranty for three years, five years, and lifetime, etc."
"The solution's website isn't that good. When I go to it, I can't find what I'm looking for. However, if I go to a third party's website, I can easily find the information."
"The user interface is not very good."
"The solution needs to offer better documentation."
"f they can improve the OpenVPN, to make that a bit more straightforward, that would be ideal."
"They should improve technical support and make direct access available to the customers."
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Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 7th in Ethernet Switches with 62 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. 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 Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Datto Networking Switches, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Aruba Switches and Huawei Enterprise Routers. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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