We looked at other options, but they didn't match Meraki's ease of use. We didn't look at all the vendors because we're primarily a Cisco shop, and we had already invested in the Meraki platform for our wireless. We were happy with the Meraki, so we didn't feel the need to look at anything else. 

We did evaluate other vendors as well and compared them to Meraki. 

We evaluated Fortinet.

I have not had the chance to compare the solution to other products. 

We compared Meraki Dashboard with Aruba and both products are good.

Merkaki was there before I was hired, and I'm the one who took it and presented it to my supervisor. From there, I went and presented it to the company where I deployed it. It was a great story. It was only after about two weeks at my new job back then, I brought the solution to my company, and then I sold the solution, configured the solution, designed the solution, and maintained the solution day-to-day. So it was something that I did my own research on.

I did not shop around very much. I had heard about what this solution could do and choose it based on that.

We thought about Aruba, but the features weren't enough, compared to Meraki.

Before choosing we didn't really evaluate other options. The guys are used to using it, but in terms of troubleshooting, they have to access many different systems. The reason why we did a POC with Meraki is because the sales representative came down to visit MTN. There's a Cisco partnership that's in place. They gave us the solution of Meraki and the objective. There was a rationale behind why we should do this POC, and that's why they moved. It was more of a selling initiative. They sold the solution to MTN, so we didn't choose it because the other solutions were not working, it was a sale.

Before this, we did not evaluate other solutions because it's a new feature and functionality. Maybe we will test other products now because there are many other players in the market. Each vendor is focused on a specific category of clientele, so not all of the solutions will be appropriate for our needs. We are actually evaluating more than one vendors right now, including Meraki and Datadog.

We compared Meraki Dashboard with Fortinet. FortiManager gives you options, but Meraki Dashboard has more feasibility and more control over all of the Meraki products.

We looked at Cisco ASA, Cisco FTD, and Meraki Dashboard. 

I was not in a position to be involved in the evaluation of options.