Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN Primary Use Case

JoseAlmonte - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at TechProc

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.

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Mageshwaran S - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Bharti Airtel ·

We use the solution for the office infrastructure to migrate from LAN to Wireless LAN. We also use it for IoT.

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GurinderSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Systems Engineer Network at AutoZone

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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JL
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.

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Rohit Ghorpade - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud network engineer at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.

We use it for our office's wireless solution, allowing employees to connect to Wi-Fi within the office environment.

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Richard Artes - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Admin at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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Gordon Maclean - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Probado Limited

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.

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Sanjeewa Dannangoda - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Infrastructure and Operations at National Institute of Business Management (Sri Lanka)

We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for wireless networks.

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MR
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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RJ
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.

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Sairam Prem Vangala - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for user-end connectivity. 

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JUANARIAS - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrative Assistant at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees

We use the product to manage three SSIDs catering to different network traffic.

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SD
Head, Computer Center at Parul University

We use the solution for our 100-plus access points.

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John Vighetto - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Vighetto Networking, Inc.

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.

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Danila Fradeani - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategie, Innovazione e Customer Experience – Analytics & Customer Experience (CEX) Manager at Telecom Italia

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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TG
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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AB
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.

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Wesley Johnson - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Oklahoma Steel and Wire

It is primarily used for wireless access, both indoors throughout the plant and outdoors.

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PAUL OMANGA - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT officer at FAO

We primarily use the solution for wireless connectivity for our wireless network.

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EC
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.

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Octavian Andrei Drugu - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Manager at IXODRON

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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VL
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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RF
IT Manager at The Museum of the City of San Francisco

We use it for Wi-Fi.

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AA
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.

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Gustavo-Morris - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Business Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

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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RR
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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HK
CTO at Mechkar

We primarily use the solution for our campus environment.

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AJ
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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LT
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 

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Ino Vitra - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Operation Manger at IIJ Singapore

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.

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Syed Pasha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at NETOPS

My customer wanted to configure the solution as Wi-Fi instead of a firewall service.

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Namra Saif - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Sales Engineer at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.

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.

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Diburaj KP - PeerSpot reviewer
Cubit technologies at Cubit technologies LLC

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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BS
IT Director at Madison County

They were for our Sheriff's department.

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JM
Vice President at Radeon Technologies Ltd.

We resell it to our customers for networking, wifi, and security.

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JA
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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BY
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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LC
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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JR
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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SS
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.

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Oscar Cerdas - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Telecommunications Coordinator at Grupo Monge

We are using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for our corporate network for internal users. 

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DM
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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PN
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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DH
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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CG
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.

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Loredana Ababei - PeerSpot reviewer
3rd Level Support Engineer at Valeo IT

We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for the wireless network connection inside the company.

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Loredana Ababei - PeerSpot reviewer
3rd Level Support Engineer at Valeo IT

We use the solution for wireless network connection in the organization.

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TW
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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KP
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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RQ
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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NW
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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GA
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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DP
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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JG
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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MA
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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AB
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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SR
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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GB
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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TF
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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SP
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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YA
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

We use this solution for device address connection.

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WM
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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EG
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.

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it_user811320 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 1-10 employees

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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VC
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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MG
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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SS
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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GM
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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PD
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for our customers.

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HU
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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AR
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.

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CARLOS DI MUCCIO - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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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GT
Director at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

We are primarily using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for applications.

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OA
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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AW
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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AC
Project Engineer at CIEMTELCOM

I use this solution for wireless.

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AF
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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PK
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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AL
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.

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Anoop-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Video conferencing Admin at Akshara Enterprises India Pvt Ltd

We are implementors. We implement solutions for our clients.

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HL
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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AM
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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RL
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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EP
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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TZ
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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SS
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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MB
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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NM
Digital Transformation Consultant at Teksedo Solutions

We use Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN for our networking and security.

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SI
Deputy Manager at STBL

We sell and provide technical support for the solution.

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RJ
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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AC
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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VD
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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AR
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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Buyer's Guide
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.