Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN Primary Use Case
The main company is a hotel resort with around 120 rooms. They have approximately 90 devices deployed throughout the complex, and they haven't had any issues with the streamlined version or established information.
View full review »We use the solution for the office infrastructure to migrate from LAN to Wireless LAN. We also use it for IoT.
I deliver daily corporate line services and guest services, along with BYOD services for our office users, totaling ten individuals, utilizing Meraki.
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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN
April 2024
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Joseph Luyirika
Network Administrator at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
At World Vision, we run most of our applications in the cloud. So most of the people need to have a strong and stable internet connection. Our offices are kind of in a box with not much infrastructure in terms of the LAN. So I deploy Meraki WIFI access points and they become the connection to the internet so that people can get to the systems that they use wherever they are.
View full review »We use it for our office's wireless solution, allowing employees to connect to Wi-Fi within the office environment.
View full review »The solution was deployed in five locations in The Netherlands. We are in K-12 education. Around 2000 students and 500 staff have used Meraki WiFi for the past seven years.
Younger students have Apple iPads and older students use Microsoft Surface. Staff have a mixture of Dell laptops and Microsoft Surfaces, and can move between sites using the same SSID on all sites.
Infrastructure is mostly Cisco Catalyst switches L2 and L3, with Sophos firewalls. The use of mobile devices is mainly internet browsing, with some local access to internal database applications.
View full review »The majority of our Meraki sales focus on advising and implementing robust networks. In some instances, we complement these setups by incorporating Meraki switches into the infrastructure.
View full review »We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for wireless networks.
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Mike-Robinson
Owner at Mar Consulting Services
These switches are part of our wireless network infrastructure. I have implemented them at 15 or 16 locations, each with between one and seven access points (APs).
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Robert Jump
Information Technology Manager at jpsnetwork
Our use case is remote clinics. We have over 40 remote clinics, and we even use it in our mobile vans or buses for providing free medical to the homeless and those in need.
We have a hybrid type infrastructure. We have Cisco as well as Aruba, but from the wireless perspective, it is all Aruba due to security and costs. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is deployed in a data center. We have our own infrastructure because of HIPAA compliance and other regulations. When going into the cloud, you don't know who is managing and whether they properly bedded in terms of sensitive, classified, and not classified information or data.
I also use it in my home. I have a cloud in my garage. I have converged network storage and everything else in my garage. My garage is a data center, and I consider it a cloud. I am using the latest version of this solution.
View full review »We use the solution for user-end connectivity.
View full review »We use the product to manage three SSIDs catering to different network traffic.
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Snehal Darji
Head, Computer Center at Parul University
We use the solution for our 100-plus access points.
View full review »We have been using the latest versions of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN because we were deploying them in a new restaurant, we had all new solutions. The only difference was that because of COVID everyone has devices on backorder and we had to compare different Meraki devices. We had to redesign our plans based on what was in stock in the wholesaler inventory. They were all enterprise-level Meraki devices.
The deployment is on-premise but we manage the solution from the cloud.
The owner of the restaurant where Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN was implemented wanted to receive very detailed analytics and metrics based on the customer traffic that he would have. We wanted to capture the information from the customers either walking outside of the restaurant or enjoying the food inside, then adjust his marketing accordingly.
We use this product for the branch network connecting with the core application in the data centers of our main customers.
We provide a Wi-Fi, secured internet connection for the customer branch.
This is an entry point to excel in other value-added services.
Connectivity is the base of our internet provider service.
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TunjiGbola
It manager at MMA2
Our primary use case for the Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN solution is providing Internet access, particularly for guests and remote environments. It enables us to implement controls such as a hospitality landing page for guest authentication, enhancing security and user experience.
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reviewer1364193
Engineering Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our project's primary use case for Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is within the education sector, encompassing approximately 5,000 schools. The deployment involves the installation of 20 to 30 access points per school, establishing a robust LAN infrastructure. This network is the backbone for various communication tools, particularly integrated with Google Workspace, facilitating collaborative activities. With a deployment of around 55,000 Cisco Meraki access points, it supports diverse educational activities across multiple sites.
View full review »It is primarily used for wireless access, both indoors throughout the plant and outdoors.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for wireless connectivity for our wireless network.
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EDGARDO CRUZ
Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for offices, small retail stores, and restaurants. Most of our clients are medium-sized businesses.
Most of our clients have around 200 employees. There are around 50 access point users.
Only one person is required for maintenance.
View full review »My company deals with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN since it provides better visibility, from my point of view, making it easier to manage. With Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, you don't need to create something else to create controllers. You can just enter in your internet browser to deploy and manage it from there. L7 firewall is also a very good sync option available with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN.
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reviewer871092
Sr. System Administrator at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
We installed approximately 20 Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN in our headquarters and we have a remote site, a satellite office, which has about seven more installed.
Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is an on-premise solution, but it uses the Meraki cloud portal. We have to register the WAP with the cloud.
In our Satellite office, we have approximately 30 users and guests. We have a guest network that runs through the Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN and a corporate network that runs through it. Our headquarters network hasn't been used as much, everybody's working remotely over the last year and a half because of COVID. Prior to the pandemic, we would have up to 300 people in the headquarters and guests.
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Richard Frick
IT Manager at The Museum of the City of San Francisco
We use it for Wi-Fi.
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reviewer1303344
Network Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees
We use it for our IoT devices in the office. It is currently our wireless solution for all devices that require wireless connectivity, for example, our IoT devices and our user's laptops and phones.
Within our organization, there are roughly 400 to 500 users, using this solution. Mostly
developers, editors, finance — everybody uses it.
Soon, we're making the switch to Aruba wireless.
View full review »The last company I was working for did an overall network revamp project where they replaced all of the access points, switches, and firewalls. We replaced all the aging equipment with new ones including Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN solutions.
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Ravi Ramachandran
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are resellers and our customers are generally medium to enterprise size organizations. I'm the senior manager and we are partners with Cisco.
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Husam Kabaha
CTO at Mechkar
We primarily use the solution for our campus environment.
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Alex Jenkins
Director at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are so many use cases. You can have multiple SSIDs and different LANs such as
guests, private, or hidden. There are so many options with it.
It is cloud-based, but the physical hardware is on-premises. We are using the Enterprise version.
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Lee Tilley
Director of Information Systems at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Our basic feature here is that we're in the education field.
I used to be a Cisco controller-based program, and
View full review »Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN facilitates daily operations by providing reliable connectivity for devices like PCs and machinery. It allows customers to access the Internet and essential applications without needing Ethernet cables.
View full review »My customer wanted to configure the solution as Wi-Fi instead of a firewall service.
View full review »I have sold Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN in Pakistan's market since its cloud management features are good.
The product is useful for security purposes, specifically network security or to secure a network. It is useful for our company's clients who want to secure their network over the cloud. The product helps to manage your network centrally.
We provide use cases for hospital systems and enterprise solutions where customers connect to Wi-Fi for office purposes. We also provide guest solutions.
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BRETT SCHRIOCK
IT Director at Madison County
They were for our Sheriff's department.
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John Mc Arthur
Vice President at Radeon Technologies Ltd.
We resell it to our customers for networking, wifi, and security.
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reviewer1621029
Domain Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I haven't deployed it for myself. I have deployed it for customers. I work for a systems integrator.
We use it for Branch-type of installations where you have a small branch. You just need to manage it via the internet. You don't need a controller-type of environment there, for a small office-type of deployment.
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reviewer1129581
Director of tecnology at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a reseller, and because we're doing mostly refreshes, we have its latest version.
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reviewer919731
Information Technology Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We use it for wireless and our network. All our switches and our APs are Meraki.
We are using its latest version. The device is on-prem, but everything is on the cloud. Meraki has its own cloud.
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reviewer1480227
Technology Systems Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
I work for an elementary school and Meraki's used to cover the entire building with wifi. It's not just a specific location. We're a kindergarten through sixth-grade school — an elementary school.
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reviewer892056
Technical Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I haven't personally recommended the product to my company's customers. Many of my company's customers use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN at corporate levels where wireless LANs are needed.
We are using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for our corporate network for internal users.
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reviewer941937
Infrastructure Engineer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We sent everybody home because of the new variant. People were trying to be safe, so we decided if you want to connect to our network, use this solution.
The solution is deployed on a private cloud. The cloud provider is Microsoft Azure.
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reviewer1672686
Virtual IT Director at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
I do networking fit-outs for schools. I'm an advisor to about 30,000 schools.
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Dániel Halmai
Head of IT Network Division at Panorinformatika
I work for a system integrator company. I am in charge of approximately 15 people — I am head of the network department. We deal with many different companies, but Meraki and Cisco are the most popular.
We have approximately 100 customers using this solution.
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reviewer1543167
Advanced IT Executive at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is used mainly for wireless switching security. I like to call it network security, however, they also have products on that end, such as FC LAN. I don't focus too much on the wireless stuff. I focus on the services and products.
We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for the wireless network connection inside the company.
View full review »We use the solution for wireless network connection in the organization.
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Tim Waldner
Principal at WATERTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT 14-4
We are using it in our school. We are using an old version. It is five years when my contract expires.
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Kimsin Phan
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution to provide wireless connectivity.
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Ricardo Quintero
Infrastructure/Telcom Coordinator at Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG
My primary use of this solution is to provide WiFi to users and guests.
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reviewer918813
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
We use Meraki Wireless LAN to provide wireless services at a school.
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Gregory Azevedo
IT Manager at Horiba
We are a Cisco reseller and the Meraki Wireless LAN is one of the products that we provide to our clients.
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Dev-Patel
Consultant at Lifeline IT
I'm an Associate Engineer and as part of my work is that I look after a number of companies where I recommend and install different network equipment. Anything from the SonicWall networks, Fortinet, you name it, depending on what the client requirements are. I would prefer high-end and that could mean Ubiquiti, Mojo, and Cisco. In terms of the version I would choose, it really depends on the client's requirements. We deal with small, medium and enterprise size companies.
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JoelGaari
Network Communication Solutions Manager at IT Solutions NV
We are using it in a enterprise network, a financial business. Users are completely using it for accessing the servers, internal networking, so the building is completely wireless and the wireless is the main connection to the network, for the gas separate network and for the lease
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reviewer938667
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's for our head offices, remote offices branches. The solution is primarily used for giving access to our users, including controlling their access and granting access.
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reviewer1522773
Emerging & Disruptive Mobile Technology Expert, Strategic Advisor at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
There are a variety of use cases. It is being used in a community center, a school, a gymnasium, and a youth center.
It's a combination of constituents. We have teachers, employees/staff, students, parents, and visitors. We have many different users.
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reviewer1286451
Head of Corporate Accounts at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have previously used PBXs, wireless solutions and LAN solutions. Our strategy is now to move everything to the cloud which is why we moved to using this solution.
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reviewer1457697
Commercial Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We mainly are in retail, and we provide all kinds of wireless solutions. We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for all kinds of use cases, and we are using its latest version.
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Tim French
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We are MSP, resellers. We provide solutions for customers.
Meraki is a good entry-level enterprise Wi-Fi solution.
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reviewer1564494
Network Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I am a system integrator. I help integrate Meraki Solutions.
We have customers with offices in Sri Lanka who have other small resorts globally. We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for the management and configuration without having to go to the site.
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YaserAltwailey
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs
We use this solution for device address connection.
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WaqasManzoor
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a solution integrator and this is one of the products that we provide to our customers.
I develop, market, and strategize products.
We have customers in all sorts of market segments including large businesses, government, SMEs, retail, hospitals, hotels, and others. We have a lot of clients who use this product.
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reviewer1213317
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The primary use case of this solution is to allow access to our guests and to grant our employees Wi-Fi access while at work. Mainly we use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN as a Wi-Fi solution, occasionally as switches, but primarily as a wireless solution.
The deployment model was on a public cloud.
View full review »I use it both at my home office, and we just installed it for one of our clients with about 11 different units in their building. We have been pretty impressed with it.
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reviewer981903
IT Management at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I do not know which version we are using.
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reviewer1606617
Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
I primarily use the solution for network connectivity. They have a microcontroller and size the firmware with access points. I didn't need to buy another controller to control all of them in one click. At any one of the access point, I can configure the whole network.
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Samrang Sieng
Senior IT Manager at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
We use the wireless network switches for wireless network communication as concerns our hotel.
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Greg Mikkelsen
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution to understand what is happening in terms of troubleshooting the performance on the network. We have pretty specific user issues. We use it to ensure both our users and devices are secure.
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reviewer1192131
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution for our customers.
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Henk Uittenbogaard
CEO at AnyWi Technologies
We primarily create outdoor usage of city-wide networks. It's mostly for visitors to the city and students at the university.
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reviewer1270755
IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is a wireless LAN solution providing wireless access points for the organization.
View full review »I am an electronic engineer and a specialist in Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN. I am a distributor of Cisco Meraki and have 100 customers using this solution.
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reviewer1164288
Director at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
We are primarily using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for applications.
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reviewer1621110
NETWORK PRODUCT MANAGER at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the product as a wireless solution. We only deal with wireless.
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Andre Walke
Project Co-Ordinator at Ministry of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology
We have deployed this solution both on private cloud and on-premises across at least 100 distinct locations.
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Alexandra Cevallos
Project Engineer at CIEMTELCOM
I use this solution for wireless.
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SeniorTe41ae
Senior Tech Support Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
We use our Meraki system to provide new IOD access and internal access for wifi devices.
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Peter Katanov
Citrix/VMWare/Windows/Office365/Exchange Administrator at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
Our environment consists of five locations and we are using the Meraki APs in all of them for user/guest WiFi access.
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reviewer1609476
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
We're using Meraki for our AP. We're also using Meraki for our SD-WAN.
View full review »We are implementors. We implement solutions for our clients.
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Henrik Kruse Lykkegaard
Network System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I love the ease of deployment and the dashboard. These are the the main selling points of this solution.
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reviewer1023120
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The main use case is as an enterprise network for the user working in the office and for guests.
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reviewer644592
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our primary use case is for business, the end within the business, no guests or anything like that. We use the on-prem deployment model of this solution.
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reviewer1249887
IT Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We are using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for enterprise access in our building.
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reviewer1606029
Principal at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We have a small, growing company, and they're looking for a wireless capability to do typical office stuff, except that now, we're doing a lot more meetings on Teams and Zoom. We often have a setup where a few people in a conference room connect with remote workers on a Teams meeting. We've had some Teams and Zoom calls interrupted due to problems with the wireless and the wide-area network, as well as some other standard internet issues. Meraki is a decent solution for a small company, and we use it in a pretty typical way. We need Teams and Zoom to work, and we need a high level of security because we want our business to remain confidential.
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reviewer1488774
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for enterprise wireless and hospitality wireless. We're using it to cater to all customer needs.
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Mansukh Bhesania
MD and CEO at Aster Networks
We are a system integrator and this is one of the Wireless solutions that we implement for our customers.
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Noorish Moosa
Digital Transformation Consultant at Teksedo Solutions
We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for our networking and security.
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Shohidul Islam
Deputy Manager at STBL
We sell and provide technical support for the solution.
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reviewer1192146
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a reseller and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is one of the network-related infrastructure devices that we sell. Our customers deploy it where they want to have one single management pane across multiple locations.
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Andres Cardenas
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
With Meraki Wireless Solutions of Cisco Wireless, I can manage them from the cloud. We are a partner of Cisco.
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reviewer1533048
Founder & MD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are using it at the hospitals for transmission for hardware switches. We are connected with various IoT devices.
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reviewer1454613
VP of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a solution provider and Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is one of the products that we recommend to our customers for building their network and offering wireless internet access.
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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.