I stopped evaluating other solutions later in my career because I was sold on Meraki by that point. If you spend too much time looking at other options, you don't solve the problem necessarily. 

I'm a tiny outfit, and I was pretty much retiring. I knew Meraki to be a good solution, and I use it personally. It's something I'm familiar with that I can support remotely. If a device goes down, we simply get another one in place, and everything downloads from the cloud. Replacing or scaling up is simple once things are configured correctly and working, 

Depending on the customer's overall solution, we also work with other networking components, such as Fortinet and other cybersecurity solutions.

I evaluated Ubiquiti UniFi.

We evaluated Cisco, Fortinet, and Ubiquiti UniFi switches.

Cisco Catalyst is far more expensive compared to Meraki. That's the reason we are using more IT systems.

If I compare it with Fortinet switches or HPE switches. Overall, the benefits that you gain with the ease of use and the manageability with Meraki are good. Also, many products from other companies are more unstable. That's one of the reasons why our first choice was Catalyst Switches.

We have researched different Cisco solutions. One of the things that we have found is that Stealthwatch for Cisco has the sensors built into the switches. We are interested in knowing whether that feature is compatible with other hardware because we don't want to be tied to a single vendor.

We didn’t really evaluate any other options. A company approached us about the product, and we decided to try it out.

There are some other competitors nowadays, like Extreme switches. They are cost-effective and have many security features embedded in the switches. We want to see that level of competency for modular capabilities in Meraki switches soon. I still see Cisco as the market leader because no one can compete with Cisco's fast tech support.

We did not compare the solution with another vendor as we only work with Cisco. 

I did not evaluate other solutions. I have always used Cisco.

Another system I evaluated is Juniper switches. 

We did look into other solutions.

NETGEAR, Ubiquiti, Aruba, Cisco Catalyst were all previously evaluated.

I am currently doing research to see what technology would be best suited for a particular issue that we are facing.

Actually, we did not consider other solutions when we decided to make the switch. I had read many things about Cisco Meraki and a lot of my colleges are using this solution. I went to visit some places that were using the solution and they showed me what it could do. I was satisfied with what my colleagues showed me about the solution when I was at their businesses and we bought the solution based on that impression.

As a reseller, evaluating options is somewhat built into the business structure. I deal with Meraki, Aruba, and Cisco around enterprise networking, security, voice, and wireless.

Meraki MS Switches are better for stability, scalability, and ease of use, but if you compare the cost-performance ratio, Huawei switches are much better.

This solution is better than the Cisco Catalyst switches.

• Arista
• Juniper

We evaluated Juniper.

I have evaluated other firewalls, such as Aruba.