The solution is scalable to the licenses. 

We have a complicated application landscape where we have quite a number of applications that are either hosted locally, hosted regionally, or also hosted in the cloud. Navigating this landscape while on MPLS was quite challenging. With the SD-WAN it is quite simple. The integration has been quite flexible as well. One of the good things that we have seen about this solution is that SD-WAN is able to talk to sites on MPLS and vice versa. That has really helped in terms of migration. It has really been a wonderful story all along the way.  

The organization I work for is in about 90 countries and then of course we have plants that are very big in some cases. We have about 1000 users in one location. In some cases, we have around 500 users. In some countries, we have only four or five plants; in some other countries, there are eighty plants all with varying numbers of users. The Meraki product can be scaled to fit all these needs.  

At one of the biggest plants we had to deploy, we had to use an MX100 in that location. That is because we were going to make it a hub as well. Being a hub, all the locations within that country were also going to be connecting to it. In our deployment approach, we have to consider whether they have local traffic and locally-used data application services. When that is the case we set up a local hub in the country to reduce latency. This is so that applications that are susceptible to latency are able to perform optimally. Then we have applications where we have specifications that require hosting them at the global business center at the central concentrated hub which is in Paris. We have to have a flexible solution to meet all of these needs.  

A good thing with Meraki is that it uses Auto VPN technology. It is not a case where the connection is moving from hub to hub, it a case of having a kind of a cloud where each hub participates and can push traffic dynamically. What I see in Auto VPN is like a Layer 3 MPLS. The difference is that MPLS uses switches where the Auto VPN simply has a concentrated hub. We can let the VPN registry handle that connection centrally. It can be an advantage when you do not have to change connections from one hub to the other. In some cases, we use the MX-67 in plants depending on what needs they have for availability and capacity needs.  

Optel was recently still using an MX100 as a central concentrated hub. When we looked at trying to be proactive and doing capacity planning, we decided to add capacity in anticipation of additional sites that will be added. To increase the capacity of the device at the central hub we just bought an MX450 that we are going to use to replace the MX100. We also upgraded our link. Initially, the uplink was 100 megs. Now we have moved to one gig just in anticipation of other sites that will be added. That type of capacity scaling is fairly easy.   

I have a team that has about nine engineers covering about two countries. With them, we try to do as much automation as possible because the size of the group is really too small to service the number of sites that they are responsible for. However, we have been able to manage quite a lot of automation because we have Meraki to help manage that.  

The same site is also responsible for voice services and they are responsible for the LAN, in each of those locations. We are also responsible for the WAN services which are used exclusively for the firewall and the security services.  

There and some other technologies like joining the cloud and moving some things to AWS. That is one of the things we try to do to leverage our automation. For instance, on Meraki, upgrades have to be applied from time to time. Up to now, we have tried to work that on a particular schedule. But even in scheduling, you discover that the time updates need to occur varies because not all locations are within the same time zone.  

What we have tried to do is work with some API scripting using Assertible and Postman to look at how to automate some processes like applying those software updates automatically. We also notice that from time-to-time when new projects come in there is a need for us to update the firewall rules on each of the Meraki devices. This is really a very tedious manual process. To resolve this we now put a new kind of scripting in place so that we can just specify the rules that we want to create and that can be applied across all the devices on the dashboard. This scales the capabilities of what Meraki can carry out.  

I noticed that recently there was a new feature that was added called Network Object. I have ideas about what I think it should be able to do, but I have not explored it yet. It is still something that will be tested out and I will see. But new features are also coming out all the time that scale the way we are able to use the product.  

The solution is scalable from a security perspective. 

Endpoint security can be managed by the end users or other third-party tools. We use Trend Micro for endpoint security. 

Scalability is rated a six out of ten. 

It's quite scalable. I read a lot on Reddit, YouTube, and all kinds of stuff, but in trade papers, Meraki apparently scales up very well within the confines of what Meraki can do. 

Now there are companies, like mining companies, who think scaling out, that's when they scale out, they have to do some weird stuff. And that's just what Meraki is just not capable of doing. 

But, for example, schools where they have, or universities typically order for small businesses. They don't generally have very strict, very strange configurations that they need to have working. So, the scalability depends on the client, for example, retail. We can go into one company that has 50 retail stores in all different malls and stuff like that, that scales very well. 

You can have one Meraki with one MX in the central site that has everybody auto-VPN into it. And that works fine. No issues there. So, it does scale within the confines of what Meraki could do.

In our clients, we have anywhere from five users all the way up to a thousand users or more (a school) connected at any one time. So, that's kind of the range with schools and hotels. We also have hotels that do that kind of range.

My impression is that this solution is quite scalable. There are around 800 users of this solution in our company right now.

Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments. In short, the perfect set of decisions is being made for the solution. I have experience working with the solution on a range of user scales, from 500 to 10,000 users.

Since I am a consultant currently, I won't be able to say whether I have plans to increase the solution's usage since I am presently not working on the solution.

The solution is scalable. It is scalable for mid-tier deployments, but not for major ones.

The scalability could be better. Typically, when I get beyond 300 or 400 sites, depending on the criticality of service, I will normally move away from Meraki and look at either Viptela or Versa.

We have 4,000 end users and no plans to increase that number.

Scalability is good as long as you're doing a simple task. If you're just deploying SD-WAN and you're not putting in cameras, wifi access points, and a lot of different components, scalability is really good. From that perspective, they do well. Their niche is retail and education, and both of these areas can be very large networks depending on the provider.

We do not have plans to increase its usage. They are really premise-based solutions that are managed from the network, and we are not staying with that same type of approach in our product lines. We are moving to a fully-integrated network approach to security, connectivity, and management.

The solution is very scalable as long as it is a Meraki-to-Meraki environment. 

I'd rate the scalability eight out of ten. 

The solution can scale well. 

We plan to increase it as much as can once we feel comfortable with the features of the product.

The solution’s scalability is awesome. You can scale it up.

We recommend this solution to small and medium-sized businesses.

We can easily scale the solution. 

We are supporting multiple customers that use this solution. There are approximately 5,000 people using the access. 

Meraki SD-WAN is pretty easy to scale. You just buy more devices; it is easy.

I rate the solution’ scalability a ten out of ten. We have about 150 users using this solution.

Considering the number of locations where Meraki SD-WAN was used, I found it scalable.

It's scalable.

We might have a plan to extend to maybe a hundred percent more sites within 2021. Hopefully, within this year, we will add almost double the size that we have right now. Currently, we have a total of 1200 employees that will double to 2400 and they each have their own devices. There are other guest users as well. There might be 4000 unique devices that need coverage.

The solution is scalable. We have 100 locations using this solution. 

Our company has many projects that employ Meraki's SD-WAN.

The scalability of the product is quite nice. 

Meraki SD-WAN is scalable.

We have approximately 5,000 people using this solution in my company.

You can scale it at any level; there is no limit to the scalability. The best part is that it can be managed remotely. You do not have to send in an engineer. You just have to send the box to the customer, and they just have to plug it into the network. You can configure Meraki devices right from the workplace.

Currently, we have 10 customers who each have 30 to 50 clients using Meraki SD-WAN.

The solution is quite scalable even though potential clients see it as a good solution for SMBs. It has the power to work for enterprises. It can scale.

The scalability of the solution does not seem like it will be a problem.  

When we upgraded from the old Cisco models, we encountered very few challenges during the migration to Meraki SD-WAN. In the future, there may be a few challenges to overcome during migration.

This solution is used mostly in enterprise-sized companies.

I rate the scalability of Meraki SD-WAN a seven out of ten.

Meraki SD-WAN is scalable.

We have approximately 4,000 users in our company.

When it comes to scalability, there's no compromise with Cisco, there is always scalability. 

The solution is scalable. 

I would rate the scalability as eight out of ten.

The solution is not scalable for high-end customers. Meraki is really flexible and can start from really small sites, so it's better suited to the SME market. When you reach a situation where you have a high number of sites with a high level of complexity, then Cisco Meraki probably lacks a bit of flexibility.

This is a scalable product, although it is most suitable for medium-sized organizations.

We've never had an issue with scalability. We have about 200 users on the solution.

Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution.

The scalability of Meraki SD-WAN is limited, it could improve.

I typically work with large business accounts which use Meraki SD-WAN. However, I have colleagues who have many accounts with smaller businesses that use Meraki SD-WAN. The solution is suitable for small to large businesses. We sell to small and medium businesses when they demand less complexity.

We are a small company. We have approximately 120 users.

With Meraki, you have only two WAN links. You cannot have more than that.

You can scale it very easily if you want to have thousands of locations, but in every location or with every Meraki WAN gateway, you can only have two WAN uplinks.

I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten. It is very easy to expand it when I get more demand from the customer. The connectivity is very good.

The scalability is okay, but the solution is much more suited to small and medium-sized companies and isn't really suited for large ones. If you have 500 to 1000 or 2000 people it's okay. For a large international company, it's not the right product. At the moment, we have about 2-3,000 users on the solution.

There is good scalability. We have a variety of users. Generally from five to two hundred.

This solution is scalable. It is not complex. On the Mx side, it could be a room for a high-end device and the highest you get is MX 450. It is scalable but it could improve for a larger enterprise.

The solution has been scalable so far. A company needing to scale should have no problems expanding it.

It is scalable.

The solution is scalable.

We have not really used this solution in any big deployments. As such, we haven't needed to scale it up.

We have set it up for approximately four clients of varying sizes.

This solution is very scalable.

The scalability the solution offers is very good.

Currently, we have 100 users on the solution in our company. I'm not sure if our organization plans to increase usage in the future.

The solution is scalable. 

Meraki SD-WAN is a very scalable solution. 

Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution. We have implemented between 120 and 150 PCs.

The solution is scalable.

It is easy to scale. We meet their requirements each year to add an additional suite. It's license based, so we have to pay for licenses annually to be able to remain online.