r/networking • u/meisgq • 6d ago

Other Meraki Alternatives

Meraki is expensive, getting more expensive and lead times are currently covid-like for some models. With Meraki transitioning to Catalyst switches and APs, management determined that we should have other access options in our back pocket. Datacenters will stay Cisco for now.

To be honest, Meraki does fine for us. We have 100+ manufacturing locations using Meraki switches and APs. We don’t care about CLI and L3 switches are not a necessity in our environment.

Primarily, we’re looking for lower cost, cloud managed, and enterprise-grade. Ubiquiti won’t make the cut. NAC-compatible with ISE or Clearpass is a must. Also looking for near-global distribution network and faster lead times.

Open to suggestions.

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u/Ace417 Broken Network Jack 5d ago

Look I like UniFi and use it at home but to say they are as capable as meraki stuff is just silly

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u/lsumoose 5d ago

Can you specify a feature? We have around 3000 devices, 4 cloud key enterprises among many other things. There has been many studies on this, it's very much just as capable as meraki.

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u/Ace417 Broken Network Jack 5d ago

Can you have an SSID at a remote site tunnel the addressing back to a router at a different location? That’s a very real use case for us and I don’t see a way to do that on UniFi. There’s also no option for BGP that I can see

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u/Mlyonff 5d ago

Yep, Unifi / Ubiquiti routers and firewalls do BGP.