Meraki MS Switches Scalability

JM
Works at Baseline Consulting, LLC

Meraki switches are highly scalable, but I've mostly dealt with small and medium-sized businesses. You need to add enough devices to scale up to a thousand or 5,000 users. These days, that can be challenging because of supply chain issues.
 

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JM
IT Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable.

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AmayPatil - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Solution Architect at Airtel

We have seven to eight customers for Meraki MS Switches from the manufacturing sector. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

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Meraki MS Switches
March 2024
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Prasanth Kailasam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Client Manager at GBM

It is a scalable solution. It's a cloud-based solution, so you can add as many devices as you want.

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TB
Global Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. The solution is suitable for all organization sizes, except for those that are very large and require a service provider or data center, footage. Meraki should be a good fit as long as a reasonable price can be negotiated and the technology is compatible.

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Dan Brunnquell - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I don't know that you scale switches. You get them for whatever amount of ports they're on.

I have sites with 24 port switches and I have sites with 48 port switches. Their size is growing to meet the needs we have.

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DN
Consultant at Decathlon International

The product is not scalable. It's a physical device and therefore limited. 

It's possible when you have virtualization, for example. For VMX, maybe, by the deployment VMX by Terraform and configuration automation, it's possible. However, with the physical devices, and so the switches, with the stack, we have scalability with the ports, with the interfaces, through a new device. I did it to the stack, however, globally, the solution, it's not as scalable as it could be. However, it's just due to the fact that it is a physical device.

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CT
Senior Network Administrator at RS&H

I think the only downside that I've seen so far in the scalability of the product is that they don't have anything that's more than a 48-port switch. They're more useful as access switches than as core switches for large environments. I mean, you can stack them nicely, but I haven't seen anything like a blade switch. It's different from what we standardized on in the past, with the Cisco 6500 or the 4000 series blade switches.

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Jóhann G. Thorarensen - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Sund Upper Secondary School

I don't see any problems with scaling Meraki MS Switches at the moment, but I will know more about it once we have replaced our old switches with this product. It's only then that I'll have a better understanding of its scalability in terms of it being a whole system, rather than individually.

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SI
Tech Specialist, Client Network DeliveryTech at AT&T

Meraki MS Switches is a scalable solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give scalability a ten.

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SS
Senior Solution Architect at Quess Corp Limited

My rating for Meraki MS Switches is nine out of ten in terms of scalability.

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RB
Tech Engineer at Wipro

It is a product that can scale. It's not a problem.

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VM
Owner at Omma Consulting

The product can scale well. It's not a problem at all. I've seen the evolution, and the scalability potential is one of the things that makes it more competitive than other products.

This product can work for both smaller and quite large organizations. 

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

We have approximately 1,000 people using the solution.

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Fabio Palme - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Ingram Micro

Meraki MS Switches is scalable. Buy the licenses, and then plug them into the network.

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Joseph Sidhom - PeerSpot reviewer
Telecommunication Group Leader at SCG

This is a good switch for a small installation, such as a hotel, but it's not an enterprise-level solution. In that regard, it is not very scalable.

The hotel network has almost 300 rooms.

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DarrenHaun - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President at Horizon Mechanical Solutions

It'll scale up as much as I need, and there are many more options higher than what I've got, so their scalability is superb. Right now, we have about 40 users.

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Christophe ANDRIEU - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Waycom International SASU

It is a scalable solution.

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JoelCloutier - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer - Operations Technologies Individual Contributor at Innergex

It’s not a very scalable product.

It’s used for energy generation, and we only really need 5% of our team managing it, so it doesn’t really require that many users per se.

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MR
Owner at Mar Consulting Services

I've used their lower-end products, and I haven't really looked at the larger units with additional ports. As such, I can't really say, although I think that there are some level 3s and even some level 4s.

At each location, there are between 15 and 20 users.

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AnkurKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at HCL Technologies

It is a scalable solution, but compared to competitors' technology, I still see some gaps. There are a lot of scalability improvements needed in this particular model.

There are 500+ on-prem users. Counting business employees altogether though, there are about 2,000. 

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SA
CTO at itecks

The scalability of Meraki MS Switches is good.

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TW
IT Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a very scalable solution.

In Europe, around 2,000 people use the product.

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SR
Vice President - Operations & Client Support at Scicom Infrastructure Services

The product demonstrates good scalability. 

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Amr Moustafa - PeerSpot reviewer
NOC Technical Lead at NCR Corporation

The scalability of Meraki MS Switches depends on the compatibility of the version you are working with. In addition, it also relates to a small office or a warehouse.

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Dhanushka Chaitanya - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Enterprise Networking Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable. 

We currently have hundreds of switches. 

At this point in time, we do not have plans to increase usage. 

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IanMacfarlane - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM SME at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

They are after a certain market, that is, the small business market. You wouldn't put a Meraki solution at an enterprise level. That's not the market that they want to go after. You would probably scale up to full Cisco for that.

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WM
Consulting Engineer at IV4

Its scalability is good. It is good for small and medium businesses and locations. They can scale up to good throughput. 

In terms of the number of users, all employees of a client are the users of this solution. All PCs are plugged into Meraki. All wireless devices are coming through them.

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PP
Supervisor of IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The solution is not as scalable as Cisco Nexus but not as expensive either. I think Meraki has hit the sweet spot on scaling.

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Kieran Bailey - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Services at Great Southern Grammar

Meraki switches are easy to scale. 

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Samir Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Infinity Access Technologies Pvt Ltd

The scalability is fine. It's not an issue for us. Cisco is always working on scalability.

I'd rate it four out of five in terms of scalability. This is a new product that is still being refined. However, as they are working on the cloud, it's only going to get better. 

We have around 250 to 300 users based on the switches we've deployed. It's in an international organization with many departments and many levels of people working on it. 

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AI
Director, Network and Telephony at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Meraki MS Switches are scalable.

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AE
IT Manager at IMP Bautest AG

This solution is currently serving about 270 users within our company. I think the product is very scalable and it would not matter how many users we add.

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MP
ICT Associate at a government with 51-200 employees

I would rate the scalability of Meraki MS Switches as a solid ten out of ten. We have approximately 20,000 end users at our company.

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ES
Chief Information Officer at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very scalable. 

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Dhanushka Chaitanya - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Enterprise Networking Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Meraki MS Switches are scalable. 

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MB
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Our company has not had to scale our network. However, some of our clients that use these same switches have scaled up, and it was an easy process for them. This is in part because it is easy to change configurations on the fly.

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PG
Technical Consultant at GMA

The product is scalable and can work if you're a small to medium-sized business. I wouldn't want to use Meraki in an enterprise network. At the moment we have about six clients sites where the Meraki device is used for storage. That is a total of about 40 or so end-users. 

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Gregory Marron - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at The Marron Group

Meraki MS Switches are scalable to an extent. I think it is scalable if you are using it for residential Wi-Fi or office Wi-Fi where there is not a lot of complex configuration, I think it will scale well.

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Antra Andrianarivo - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Nexthope

We do not have issues with the scalability. It's very easy to expand. 

There are more than 20 companies using the solution, however, I don't have details about how many individual users are at each company.

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JV
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

I don't have any scalability issues, but there are certain things for which I probably wouldn't use it, such as storage area, networking, etc. For local LAN, it shouldn't have any scalability issues.

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Matt Baldwin - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Vertisys LLC

I haven't seen any issues with scalability. Our environment is relatively small, about 20-25 offices, and therefore we haven't tried to expand the solution.

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SF
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would say that it's scalable, especially in the sense that there are models up to at least 10 Mbps and at the upper range there are 10 Gbps copper switches. Then there are switches that support 1 Gbps fiber as well as 40 Gbps fiber (via QSFP). Thus, there are enough models to offer the scalability that you need as far as bandwidth is concerned.

There are fixed-model switches and also some older model switches to choose from, so it depends upon the customer's requirements to decide on their own solution. When it comes to scalability, there are various options available. 

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JB
Engineer at ITC GROUP

Most customer networks are small networks. In Bolivia, we don't have very big companies or corporate networks. Most clients have between 100 and 300 users or endpoints and no more than that.

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DS
Solutions Specialist - Enterprise Networking & SD-WAN at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Meraki is scalable but it's only seen as a stackable switch solution. The one thing is the mid-market where obviously Meraki has traditionally had most of their focus on. So, when you buy switches and you want to scale, you have to have them in switch stacks. What Meraki hasn't done — and missed a bit of an opportunity in my opinion — is they've not really developed a low form factor switching solution in the form of a chassis switch. I think that could open up a massive opportunity for Meraki in terms of being seen as more of an enterprise solution.

As far as our own scaling we have seen their numbers grow in terms of selling their solutions whereas we've seen other lines of business that decline. So, I'd say that we've definitely seen exponential growth in sales of Meraki as a solution. More and more customers whom I talk to get to the point of serious consideration and go through the finer processes of discovering what Meraki is all about. People who choose it seem to like it so much that they stick to it. I think the only time I've really seen a compelling reason for not going with Meraki is that the security with regards to firewalls is still Meraki solutions. They really don't quite compete with Cisco and their ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) technology.

In any case, we do continue to have plans to scale our usage of this solution for us and our customers.

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

Meraki MS Switches are scalable.

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MY
Sales Engineer at Logicom

The scalability of the solution is rather good. If a company needs to scale, it can do so with ease.

We typically work with small and medium enterprises.

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SM
Vice President of Information Technology at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

This is a scalable solution and everybody in the organization uses these switches. This includes the president and CEO, the business development underwriters, and everybody else. In total, there are about 75 users.

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AA
IT Specialist at Central Bank of Nigeria

The solution is scalable. There are currently seven people using it in our organization.

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JG
Director of Institutional Technology at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

I work in a school and we've had a huge disruption with coronavirus and having students studying remotely on campus and remotely off campus and needing more throughput than what the firewall can cope with. I'm right at the cusp of needing a bigger firewall. Meraki doesn't necessarily always have the exact feature that you'd like. 

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AL
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate scalability at 60% because it doesn't have the core functionality required for aggregated interfaces. For example, you can not use a virtual device context, so you can't scale easily.

We have close to 300 users in the organization.

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Sriman L - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Nipun Net Solutions

You can scale it up. You can take any traditional scenario that you have a license for and scale up. I'm working with 200 or so people, so I just bought a few access points and a few switches. If you compare Meraki with the traditional, every switch or every firewall and every access point, every WLCL switch in the traditional way requires some licenses. If that device has a MAC throughput capability, I need to go for another device. If there is a WLCL pack, it requires another device I need to purchase. But with Meraki, there is nothing like that, the license will cover the hardware, RMA, and the licensing plan.

Recently, it converted from the quote elimination to party-wise licenses. If you have a device license, you simply add the licenses and you can play around with it. There are more restrictions, like if you see access points with MR, ENT it will come with an MV, so it's not about the model. For example, today I have an MR42, tomorrow I'll buy some MR53 or MR87. It is independent of the model and you can add whenever you have the API licenses. Similarly, if you have a camera license, you can add. If you have MDM or MV, you can add. It's unlimited. It is scalable, and it gives you flexibility and security. Every device will establish a tunnel with official encryption towards the Meraki cloud and all the devices will be securely connected and it will take less than 1 kbps in terms of configuring data. 

We have worked on the homes of CEO's and directors and up to to hospitals, retail and manufacturing establishments. Everything is supported and scalable.

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Antra Andrianarivo - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Nexthope

The scalability is very good on the backend. We've even run some stress tests to see how the solution would hold up to expansion and have had great results. If an organization needs to scale up, they can do so with Meraki. It's not a problem at all.

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TP
Graduate Trainee at HNE

The solution is highly scalable.

We have around 1,000 people accessing the solution per day.

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MA
Hardware and Networks Support Executive at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability of Meraki MS Switches is very good.

I rate the scalability of Meraki MS Switches a ten out of ten.

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AkshayPrakashan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at Redington

The scalability of Meraki MS Switches is good.

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BL
Senior IT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable, however, it depends on which model you buy. We usually buy one that's stackable, in case we need to add more. We can easily stack them when we need to expand.

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SM
Sr. Presales Consultant at a integrator with 501-1,000 employees

I have two or three projects that are using this solution. One of them has twenty-five hundred users.

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PW
Founder at SDWAN Clan

It is probably not as scalable as Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series, which includes the 9200s, 9300s, and 9500s. Its security requirements aren't as strong as the Cisco DNA portfolio. 

Globally, we have about 3,000 users. We're on a five-year subscription. As and when the business requires more, we will increase its usage. We will no doubt adopt the same solution because that's our LAN standard now. It is the global standard.

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it_user203934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Unfortunately, they don't have an upgrade path, so if you need higher model, you need to buy a new one.

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MR
It specialist

The scalability is good. It's likely as scalable as Aruba, for example. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. 

We have 150 people using the solution currently.

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TM
President at Virtual Tech Computer Solutions

Different switch models are chosen based on the size of the site. We use certain models at smaller sites, whereas we use different models for the larger sites. Overall, scalability is excellent.

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DP
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is something that we'll determine in the long term. At this time, we have between 30 and 50 users. It can scale up to 60.

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SC
Senior Consulting and Design Engineer at Claro Ecuador

The scalability of the solution is excellent. 

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JH
IT Engineer at a printing company with 201-500 employees

In our company, we have about 400 users, but on this site, we have only 150 users.

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SV
Network Administrator at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For our current state, the solution has good scalability. We have around 400 users in our company. We use five people for maintenance. We don't have immediate plans to increase our usage, but perhaps after four or five years. 

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MM
Security & ICT Product Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We primarily use the solution for small and medium customers, so we don't deal so much with scalability. For our purposes, a couple of switches are enough, in most cases.

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RS
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is plug and play. If you want to upgrade, all you do is plug it in and it works.

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MB
MD and CEO at Aster Networks

Scalability has not been a problem.

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AJ
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

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SP
Contact Centre Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

This solution is scalable. It is easy to expand. 

Once the implementation is done and you have endpoints, then you can easily move configurations or copy from one site to another.

We have five to ten IT managers using this solution.

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SA
IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

The solution isn't scalable. 

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RG
Data Center Presales Engineer at Integrated Solutions

This solution is scalable if we're talking about one component with many remote offices. However, if we're talking about a company with a large headquarters then I can find better solutions.

There are dozens of users for this solution at the company in Poland, perhaps up to one hundred.

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EB
CECEO, ICT & Privacy ConsultantO at CHIP COMPUTERS S.r.l.

The solution is scalable and stable. 

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JG
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The scalability could be better. 

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EL
Delivery Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is easy to stack, which makes it scalable.

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RE
Head of IT at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is not scalable. If you need to scale, you need to change the equipment. Currently, about 100 users in our company are using Meraki MS switches.

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Buyer's Guide
Meraki MS Switches
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Meraki MS Switches. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.