Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN Scalability

JoseAlmonte - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at TechProc

The scalability is actually fine. I thought it might not be as scalable as other brands, but it's been working well for us.

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

Regarding scalability, our organization primarily focuses on private network solutions for customers. Approximately seventeen percent of medium enterprises have opted for Meraki over other solutions like Fortinet or Huawei. While I have a different number of customers using Meraki within our team, we estimate around 100 customers, with their networks graded on SD-WAN technologies.

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Mageshwaran S - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Bharti Airtel ·

For my use cases, I am planning to use 500 APs. Our clients are planning to increase the number of users to 15,000. So, I would need more than 2000 APs. I can scale without any issues by just purchasing the license. If it were on-premise, I would have had to upgrade the hardware and purchase the license.

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Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN
April 2024
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GurinderSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Systems Engineer Network at AutoZone

I would rate it a nine; it's highly scalable.

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JL
Network Administrator at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is as I want it to be. The only thing I need to do is add a few licenses here and there, but it is scalable. I get a new device, add it on the dashboard, and I don't need to pay dashboard fees. Not too bad for me. It is scalable enough. I wouldn't want that to be changed.

As a rough estimate, we are about 1,200 users. That is the breadth of the network across the country. We have about 30 offices, with some more populated than others.

I do the deployment and maintenance myself - only one person.

We use it everyday. Every time someone walks into the office, they are using the Meraki Wireless at that point to connect to the internet and everyone who walks in the office needs the internet to work. It is being used 24/7.

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

It's highly scalable, receiving a perfect rating of ten out of ten. It is extensively used by over ten thousand users.

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

The solution is good and easy to scale if you keep the same settings everywhere.

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Gordon Maclean - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Probado Limited

It offers excellent scalability, making it well-suited for medium-sized businesses like ours, with approximately ten clients. I would rate it nine out of ten.

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

The solution's scalability is limitless and can meet our organization's growth. Around 200 users are using the solution in our organization.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

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PAUL OMANGA - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT officer at FAO

The solution can scale. That said, I've never reached the limit of our deployment. We haven't tested the scalability too much. 

We have about 100 users in our office.

We do not have plans to increase usage. We may decrease the number. 

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RJ
Information Technology Manager at jpsnetwork

It has scalability. It can be scaled depending on your business needs.

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

I rate Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN's scalability a nine out of ten. My company has three users. 

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

The platform is easy and quick to scale. We can add up devices on SSIDs for every configuration or node.

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PRASHANTNAGARAJ - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Amagi

We have 800 Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN users in our organization. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

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TK
Business Manager at Al-Mayssan Technical Services

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten. Less than 50 people in my company use the solution.

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SD
Head, Computer Center at Parul University

Our ability to scale is determined by our licensing and can be easily managed through cloud consoles. However, the wireless component of our end users poses some scalability challenges.

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

The stability of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN has been great. I am highly satisfied.

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

This is not an area that I have explored as I am not a project specialist, but we would like to increase our usage.

We have approximately 300 users.

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TG
It manager at MMA2

The scalability is quite satisfactory. I rate it around seven or eight, but not a perfect ten. I have deployed it for over 150 users.

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AB
Engineering Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The product is easy to scale. However, the extension might be expensive compared to other vendors. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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

We only have two and didn't have any issues. 

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.

There are no plans to expand our usage, and instead, we will opt for a single-vendor approach by replacing them with Fortinet.

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EC
Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Scalability-wise, it's excellent. You can integrate with other products like MX, the firewall and router of Meraki, and you can also integrate with Umbrella which is cloud security from Cisco. You can also add more access points very easily.

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Octavian Andrei Drugu - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Manager at IXODRON

It is a scalable solution, though I never tried to use its scalability option. I don't even know how many devices you can add to the product.

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VL
Sr. System Administrator at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is scalable. If we needed to expand, it's easy to add another WAP for a new location.

As we come back into the office, in January, we'll start out with approximately 100 users. We're going into a hybrid mode and we will not have as many users as we did, prior to COVID. We had upwards of 300 people connecting and that's mostly everybody with their mobiles or laptops that come into the office. At our highest, it is approximately 300 users but starting in January, we'll probably have approximately 100 to 200.

We do not have plans to expand our usage at this time. However, if we open up a new office then we will most likely expand usage.

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

You just buy more. In terms of the number of users, it is used by everyone in the organization. It is Wi-Fi, so you hook your phone or laptop. Everybody uses it.

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AA
Network Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Because it is cloud-based, you don't have to worry about it. Once you deploy it, it's very easy. You could actually ship one to a remote office, have them plug it in and once it phones home, you register it, and then you can configure it. So in that regard, it's very easy to set up a remote office. It's very good that way.

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TM
IT Manager at Kitson

It is a scalable platform. We have deployed 60 access points across our organization.

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RR
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable, the only problem we had earlier was the Meraki firewall did not support more than two ISC links, but I think the hardware has matured and can now support more than two ISC links. Some years ago now, Meraki used to lose many customers because it didn't support more than two ISC links.

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HK
CTO at Mechkar

The solution can scale quite well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so fairly easily.

We currently use the solution in order to cover 500 users at our company.

Our company does plan to increase usage in the future.

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AJ
Director at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is perfect in terms of scalability. I've got one system here in the UAE and one in London, and I haven't even touched the one in London, and I can do it all from here.

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LT
Director of Information Systems at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

This is a product that scales pretty easily. We have about 1,200 people using it.

We have students and teachers and parents, and then, of course, we have staff members in general, and lots of different devices. One of the big things that I will challenge people at, and I don't think a lot of people realize this, but the challenge of some school networks is, especially for us, I'll use a final time, for example, is all of a sudden you have to have 850 to 900 people on the network at one time.

The exam starts now and all 850 students have to get on the network now. You don't see that any other school at that point in time. Kids come on, they join whenever, they've already got it on. You don't see that, but in those classes when they have to start exams, everybody has to hit that network and load a page now. Your network has to be able to be designed to handle that.

This is one of the reasons we've had to balance the wireless to make sure that we've been able to get good successful connections throughout the entire campus inside of every classroom. That way, no access points overloaded or the bandwidth is not overloaded. If you lose one in the middle, it's enough that it can withstand the fail over of another classroom in the middle of that type of exam.

It is this concept and design that has allowed us to sustain this system for more than five years without a problem.

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Ino Vitra - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Operation Manger at IIJ Singapore

We work with many customers using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, with deployments ranging from small offices to large enterprises. It is sometimes deployed in principal offices, catering to a user base of 15 to 20 individuals. Additionally, there are instances where larger-scale deployments are undertaken, accommodating up to a hundred users.

I rate the platform's scalability an eight out of ten.

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Syed Pasha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at NETOPS

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is a scalable solution.

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

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

If I compare the other brands in the market, like Sangfor or Sophos, with Cisco in terms of security, I see that Cisco is not a part of the Gartner Report. Cisco is deployed in multinational companies and not in small to mid-sized organizations.

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LA
Technical Consultant at Alstix

It is a scalable solution. We had 50 solution users in our organization.

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Diburaj KP - PeerSpot reviewer
Cubit technologies at Cubit technologies LLC

It is a super scalable solution. There are no limitations to the number of devices you can add.

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Pramoad Pathirathna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Enterprise Systems at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is easy to scale.

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BS
IT Director at Madison County

I didn't have to scale it. We had 26 users. They included secretaries and deputies to Sheriff.

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JM
Vice President at Radeon Technologies Ltd.

It scales well up to the larger midsize enterprise. The MX appliances are less scalable than the wifi or the switches. They're a little underpowered and so that's the point where you'd move to a different solution if you needed more scalability if you had more bandwidth requirements. We currently have 150 users. 

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TT
Administrator at SOURTHERN WAVES Solution

The solution’s scalability is good.

Around 20 customers are using this solution.

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JA
Domain Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Meraki is not a very scalable solution. It has its own limitations on the number of devices you can deploy. I would say it's not a very scalable solution.

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BY
Director of tecnology at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Its scalability is a five out of 10. 

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LC
Information Technology Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

I can add or remove without any issues. So, scalability is no issue. It is being extensively used in the organization at the moment.

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JR
Technology Systems Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

It's very scalable. We could increase the system we have, but because of its age, we actually need to replace the entire thing at once. So instead of doing it piecemeal and having some of the older products remain while we put in a new product, we would rather replace the whole system. 

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NL
Presale Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is easily scalable. There are not really any limits for the customer in terms of expanding if they need to.

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SS
Technical Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

From a scalability perspective, I think the tool is incredibly scalable. I assisted one of our company's customers, which is a global supermarket chain, in an evaluation, which included Cisco Meraki and the wireless component, during which, for the first time, I was exposed to the true scalability feature of the platform. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is scalable.

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DM
Infrastructure Engineer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is scalable. There are 200-300 users in our organization. There are plans to increase usage in the future.

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PN
Virtual IT Director at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

I don't have an issue. It meets specifications.

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DH
Head of IT Network Division at Panorinformatika

This solution is both scalable and stable. 

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CG
Advanced IT Executive at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution can scale very well. There are not problems expanding it if you need to as an organization. It's easy enough to do. Even on an enterprise-level, you can scale.

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

I rate Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN a ten out of ten for scalability. 2000 people are using Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN in our company.

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

About 2000 employees in the organization are using the solution. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

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TW
Principal at WATERTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT 14-4

It is scalable. I need to add a couple more and upgrade to four.

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KP
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scaling has not been an issue.

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it_user375078 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer/Mobility Specialist at CCSI - Contemporary Computer Services, Inc.

The Meraki products scale quite well by allowing multiple organization with subdivisions of "networks" APs can be added to networks and tagged with other information as well. I would say that it works best for organizations with many diverse locations with smaller numbers of APs.

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RQ
Infrastructure/Telcom Coordinator at Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG

This solution has good scalability.

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NW
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

I would say that Meraki WLAN is scalable, but the licensing makes it a little difficult. You can't just add on more APs within your scope. You have to purchase more licenses to scale.

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RV
Senior Network Engineer at Saffron networks pvt ltd

This is a cloud-based product and the best thing about a cloud-based product is if you have a cloud controller and access point, then you don't have to worry about that key for licenses. If you've got 70 access points, you can register there. If you have 1,000 and 2,0000, you can also register there. There is no need to change any controller hardware as that is a cloud-based product, which makes it fully scalable. You can add to it and still maintain a single point of management. 

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

It's not exactly the cheapest solution in terms of scalability, but it's very good. A lot of my clients have to look at other alternatives because of the cost and it's likely that in the end, they take Mojo even though I don't like that product as much. If I were going to choose an alternative to Cisco it would be Ubiquiti but it all comes down to cost.

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JG
Network Communication Solutions Manager at IT Solutions NV

Meraki WLAN is easy to scale. If it's a small network of around 50 access points, I think one staffer can handle the installation and maintenance. But if you go over 50 access points — about 400 clients — you would need one more staffer.

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MA
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The scalability of the solution is great. However, it depends on the business' needs.

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DJ
CEO at Meridian Infotech Ltd.

We cater to medium and enterprise companies. We have good experience in managing large networks. 

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AB
Emerging & Disruptive Mobile Technology Expert, Strategic Advisor at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

It's a scalable solution. It's pretty good.

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SR
Head of Corporate Accounts at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a scalable solution solution. We are based in Mauritius and since it is a small island, the scale we need fits into the range that Meraki can offer. 

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GB
Commercial Product Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is very scalable. Our customers have around 200,000 users.

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TF
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

It is scalable, but it definitely suffers during really large implementations.

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SP
Network Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's a scalable solution.

Most of our clients are enterprise companies.

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YA
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

This is a scalable solution.

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WM
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is scalable.

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EG
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This solution is scalable.

We have more than one thousand users, and we have plans to increase usage in the future.

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it_user811320 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 1-10 employees

I have not had any issues with scalability. If we need any more, it is literally just plug and play. It will immediately go in the network, because it is cloud-based. Everything from the network is on the cloud, so it just pushes right into the new device.

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VC
IT Management at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I agree wholeheartedly that the solution is scalable. 

For the moment, we do not have plans to increase the usage. 

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MG
Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

The product scales well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We have 500 users who are on the solution currently.

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MB
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Meraki is quite scalable. 

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SS
Senior IT Manager at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

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GM
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We currently have 60-75 users on the solution. They all use it daily.

For us, the solution seems to be pretty scalable. We haven't had any issues and haven't seen any shortcomings.

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PD
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable. It's very easy. If a company grows, we just have to do a few clicks and it's ready.

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HU
CEO at AnyWi Technologies

The solution is scalable.

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AR
IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is scalable.

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

This solution is scalable.

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

The scalability of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is good.

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AW
Project Co-Ordinator at Ministry of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology

We don't have any challenges with the scalability so far. From our experience, it's quite scalable.

On a daily basis, we probably have an excess of 5,000 users on this solution.

There are no immediate plans to increase usage, however, there's probably a growth rate of about 5% to 8% per year for the next year or two.

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AC
Project Engineer at CIEMTELCOM

Our clients are small and medium companies, and we didn't have any problems with scalability. Our clients may increase its usage in the future.

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it_user887640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It's scalable. 

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AF
Senior Tech Support Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees

I would rate scalability as five out of ten. It's kind of hard to say.

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AL
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We have scaled it. There is no problem.

We have 230 users, and they don't even know that it exists.

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

There is no problem with scaling. It's a scalable product.

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HL
Network System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is more or less endless. I have not seen problems with adding 100's or 1000's of devices.

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AM
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

This is a scalable solution.

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RL
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It's scalable. We have between 50-100 users in my company. The users are our general employees. 

We don't require any staff for maintenance. For the deployment, we required four staff members. We have plans for increasing usage. The idea is to double it in size with Wifi 6. 

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it_user203934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
EP
IT Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is a scalable solution.

We have approximately 300 people using this solution in my organization.

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SS
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN is scalable. We have some customers that own 100 branches and they're connected. There was no issue regarding scalability.

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MB
MD and CEO at Aster Networks

Meraki Wireless LAN is a stable product.

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it_user1161036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Specialist at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is scalable. It's good and we have no issues.

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Ammar_Farhat - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Hubtech

The scalability of this solution is good.

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NM
Digital Transformation Consultant at Teksedo Solutions

Most of our customers are enterprise companies using this solution.

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SI
Deputy Manager at STBL

The solution is scalable.

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it_user394371 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have had no issues scaling.

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RJ
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability has not been a problem.

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AC
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This solution is scalable.

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VD
Founder & MD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have more than 40 users at the moment, but the number is growing.

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AR
VP of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The product is scalable and can do so on-demand. We have approximately 60 users, and we plan to continue using it in the future.

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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.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.