Please introduce yourself [Aug 2017 - Feb 2019]

[CarolineS]

UPDATE: We've archived this post and created a new space for introductions here.

Welcome to the Meraki Community. We are excited to provide this forum as a place for our customers and partners to interact with us and with each other. We’d love to get to know you.

Reply to this thread to let us know who you are, what you do, what expertise you have to share, what you may be looking for in this community, your hobbies… anything you’d like. Just hit that first big green "Reply" button below to get started.

Pro tip: when replying, you may wish to UNCHECK the "Email me when someone replies" checkbox (screenshot below). This thread is popular and you might not want an email each time someone posts on it!

We look forward to meeting you!

[CarolineS]

I'll kick this off by introducing myself. I'm Caroline, the community manager for the Meraki Community. I'm really excited to help this community get off the ground!

When I'm not community-managing, I hang out with my two small kiddos, ride my bike around San Francisco, and get up to the mountains as much as possible.

[Dave]

Hi all. 

I'm Dave.  I am the Information Systems Officer for a community bank in North Western Pennsylvania.  We have 8 locations and use Meraki gear for all of our firewalls and almost all of our switching.  I'm also using Meraki Systems Manager for windows app deployment and inventorying.    I just started Threat Grid integration into the MX's.  

Recent father of identical twin girls that are only 6 weeks old.  I also have 3 and 4-year-old daughters as well.   Pardon my mistakes as I'm very sleep deprived.  

[Toney]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Toney.  I am UC and Network Administrator for N3 LLC.  We have network locations in US, UK, Ireland, Costa Rica, and Singapore.  I work around the clock with users at are our various locations to make sure that their IT issues are resolved.  We have a small IT Team but each person is an expert in a certain area(s).  I have been very fortunate to work with a Great IT Team and a Great Management Team.

Thanks

[LudwigD]

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to Cisco Meraki. But with not so much experience/knowledge I managed to install my new network (MX65W). 

Very pleased with it! So, m y questions in this community can be a little simple, so apologize...

But thankful for the help.

LD

[Kasper]

Hello all! My name is James and I work for a non-profit and recently became a CMNO! 

[JasonTaylor]

Hi

I am a Senior Product Manager for Meraki,  here at BT Global Services (BTGS). Been living the Meraki dream for 3 years or so.  I have moved into product management recently,  after working in sales for many years.  Look forward to working with the Meraki Community.

Jason.

[Erikjon]

Hi, I'm Erik, CEO of a small nonprofit agency in Kansas.  Having started this project from the ground up myself in 2004 as a "locel" project has taken me by storm, growing into a nationwide organization this past 2 years.  I provide publicly displaced persons, primarily mentally ill and homeless persons/families crisis intervention of some king, all dependent on each individual situation.  I do this because I love people.  I love helping the less fortunate than myself.

I am also retired after a 25 year career with AT&T as one of the executive assistants to the AT&T Kansas President.  Therefore I have a big interest in the success of international telecommunication companies and remain fascinated by the ever evolving technology.

Having said that, and having also been a Cisco customer for 20 years, when the Meraki/Cisco project launched, I must say that I have gotten a bit addicted to learning the cloud structuring of communications - all of which you all do an excellent job at.  I like Meraki because you are a no nonsense, more plug and play system - meaning that you are user friendly, and you can still give quality customer services at a very medium price point.

Actually as well, I am getting ready to transition my agency from a traditional VOIP carrier to the Meraki/Cisco project after I learn what you all do and how you do it - how to optimize a custom system for my agency.  If there are any Meraki/Cisco experts/managers out there that have worked with small nonprofits/smaller public service agencies, that you private message me on here - I would love to get some final opinions before launching Meraki - especially those knowledgeable on the Meraki/Cisco hardware setup.  The hardware is ming boggling to me and I am truly having a hard time sorting out what does what because the entire hardware lineup is so multifunctional.  So please email/message me on here - I need some final input here.  If any reader here handles the State of Kansas where I am I would like to speak with you to at least get the ball rolling.  I am thinking at this point of starting out with your free trial.  I am also taking recommendations on carriers that provide services that work in sync with Meraki products.  If I have it right, I guess there are many 3 party VOIP/internet providers that can power your systems.

Have a wonderful week and I look forward to all of your replies.

Peace, 

Erik

[CarolineS]

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@Erikjon wrote:

Hi, I'm Erik, CEO of a small nonprofit agency in Kansas.  Having started this project from the ground up myself in 2004 as a "locel" project has taken me by storm, growing into a nationwide organization this past 2 years.  I provide publicly displaced persons, primarily mentally ill and homeless persons/families crisis intervention of some king, all dependent on each individual situation.  I do this because I love people.  I love helping the less fortunate than myself.

 Hi @Erikjon and welcome to the Meraki Community! We're glad you have found us. This nonprofit you have created sounds amazing!

Actually as well, I am getting ready to transition my agency from a traditional VOIP carrier to the Meraki/Cisco project after I learn what you all do and how you do it - how to optimize a custom system for my agency.  If there are any Meraki/Cisco experts/managers out there that have worked with small nonprofits/smaller public service agencies, that you private message me on here - I would love to get some final opinions before launching Meraki - especially those knowledgeable on the Meraki/Cisco hardware setup. 

This sounds like a great project! I'd recommend that you post your questions in our Off the Stack board, which is for general Meraki-related topics. 

Cheers!

[BBM_Mike]

 Hi Caroline and Hi to Everyone, Mike from Bell Canada Business Market Support (SP), recent client Meraki device/technology launches bring us to further learn and develop our experience and management of Meraki products.

 We are here to grow 🙂

[TammyU]

I'm Tammy and I'm a fairly new CMNO looking to continue expanding my knowledge.  I'm an Analyst in the retail arena and support both Cisco and Meraki switches.  I'm excited to be a part of this community and hoping to share knowledge with others.

I just recently took up Hiking with my hubby and so far I've started exploring trails in the Appalachian Mountains and I absolutely love it! 

[PJ]

Hellow Everyone

My name is PJ and I am new to the community.

I joined the community in the hope that someone could point me in the right direction to setup my newly purchased mx84 security appliance.

When I connect to the management port on the MX84 and open a web browser,it give me an error message saying that "something's is not right

this security appliance is trying to join a network or find a working Ethernet connection"

I have the internet port 1 connected to my gateway router and the lan port3 connected to my Lan core switch.

I have also found that the Lan ports 3-12 on the mearaki appliance are on the 192,168.0.0/24 subnet however my LAN is on the 192.168.18.0/24 subnet.

Any advise would be much appreciated.

PJ

[4Jonjon20]

Hi PJ,

Do you already tried to statically configured the Public IP address from the Internet 1 port?

[4Jonjon20]

Hi PJ,

Do you already tried to statically configured the Public IP address from the Internet 1 port?

[4Jonjon20]

Hi,

I'm Jon from the Philippines, a Network Administrator using Meraki devices. I'am very impressed about  Meraki and hopefully to learn a lot from you guys. Yaaahh Man!!! 🙂

[hosokawaw]

Hi @CarolineS 

How can I change my profile name ? And where i can new post ?

Regards
William Hosokawa

[CarolineS]

Hi @hosokawaw -

You can change your profile name by emailing community-help@meraki.com - which you've already done, I see! We'll respond to that shortly. And to create a new post, simply select the relevant board (likely one of the Product & Technology boards) and click "Start a new topic" in the upper right.

Cheers!

[GeorgeD]

Hi everyone! I'm George and I work on the Training and Evangelism team at Meraki 🙂

[PavlinH]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Pavlin Hristov and I am a Technical Evangelist on the Training and Evangelism team at Cisco Meraki. My job consists of developing, improving and delivering new and existing trainings to our partners and customers. 

[ITzhak]

Hi PavlinH,

What does the Evangelism team do? I am accustomed to hearing that word related to religion, but that doesn't seem to apply here 🙂

Thanks,

[PavlinH]

Hello Itzhak,

Thank you for the question. 

The Technical Evangelist team is responsible for promoting Cisco Meraki through technical certification courses and other focused technical engagement programs. We help Cisco Meraki partner and customer engineers to build the technical expertise that they need to sell, deploy, and support Meraki networks. This technical enablement is a critical lever in growing sales, building channel loyalty, and improving the performance of our partners and customers.

Hope this answer helps. Let me know if I can clarify further.

Cheers,

Pavlin Hristov

[NathanG]

Hi,

I'm Nathan, a Meraki Technical Evangelist based out of Brisbane, Australia.

I cover all of the APJ region.

[Mike_Rapp]

Hello! I'm Mike and I work as an IT Technicial at Medical Associates Plus in Augusta GA. We have 5 facilities using a mixture of network products to include Meraki. We would like to switch all our network equipment to Meraki in the future for equipment continuity. 

[Teague]

Hi all,

Teague here.  System admin, networking, phones etc.  Meraki fan

CMNO #00875

[BHC_RESORTS]

Hi All! Glad to be here as well. We are Boutique Hotel Collection, and more specifically, I am Chris Biggers. We operate the full Meraki stack minus switching. Our expertise is in hospitality deployments of Meraki equipment, specifically the access points.

[MerakiJockey505]

Hello everyone!  I'm Rod, Systems Engineer for Presbyterian Medical Services here in New Mexico.  I'm psyched to be a part of this beta community and ready to learn and share info about the wide wonderful world of Meraki!

[Mr_IT_Guy]

Hello everyone,

My name is Joe and I am a Network Admin for Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group. We've been utilizing the full Meraki stack for the past year  to support our over 90 locations. We are looking forward to testing out cameras here shortly. We have also been a part of the various Meraki betas and are working to help resolve AMP issues.

[Matthew]

Good Day,

Network Engineer here with Eagle County Schools in the beautiful Colorado Mountains. We are just finishing up our transition from Catalyst equipment to Meraki this week for 160 switches and 500 APs over 19 sites and we couldn't be happier! We are looking forward to the evolution of the MC line and hearing the community's experience with scalability to >1000 handsets.

Kind Regards,

Matthew

[MRCUR]

Hi everyone,

I'm CR, an IT consultant for various public/private schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I currently support the full Meraki stack except for MC devices. Very happy to finally have a good place to discuss Meraki with other Meraki admins!

CMNO #12 (thanks @GeorgeD!)

[MarcoS]

Hi! I am Marco, a Technical Evangelist at Cisco Meraki. Nice to meet you all!

[RafaelM]

Hello y'all! Rafael Marta here, one of the Technical Evangelists at Meraki! It's a pleasure to be part of this community!

[NFL0NR]

Hey Everyone, I'm Casey,

I'm a network admin for a mortgage company, we have about 75 branch offices and we have meraki in all of them as well as in our HQ data closet.  We're mostly all Meraki.. now if I can get our phone guy to switch over.... 😉

[JoelKelley]

Then the phone guy wouldn't have a job! 

[Rob_Bauhuis]

Joel is my go to guy!!

[BradB]

Hi all! My name is Brad, and I lead the Training & Evangelism team here at Meraki. I've been with the company for a bit over 5 years at this point, and it's been quite a ride to see Meraki grow from a 150-person startup to the organization that we are today. 

My team creates and delivers Meraki's training programs for partners, customers, and others within the Cisco organization. I'm super excited about this forum as a way for Meraki users to interact and share experiences, and would love to see it grow over time to include additional ways for users to go further in their Meraki learning journeys. 

Thanks for visiting and contributing!

[ThomasEllis]

Hey Brad.  Your team is doing a great job communicating and educating around the simplicity and features available with Meraki.

[adilorenzo]

Hi,

My name is A.J. and I work for Privia Health based out of Arlington, VA.  We manage over 350 small and medium sized doctor's offices in 6 different markets across the US.  We have Meraki equipment in almost 200 of these Care Centers now (some have multiple offices) and manage a separate Meraki organization for each Care Center.  The majority of these sites have at least a Meraki firewall, a lot of them have Meraki APs and a few of them have Meraki switches as well.  Meraki has really changed the way we approach and manage networking in these offices in a very positive manner.

My hobbies include IT (this probably goes without saying), sports, music, food/beer and reading.

A.J.

[Mr_IT_Guy]

Happy to see all the new faces!! Keep them coming!

[btevans995]

Hello everyone.

My name is Bill Evans and I am a technology evangelist and worked in IT for 18 years.  I am excited to be part of this community and look forward to benefiting from the expertise here - and hope to contribute in a valuable way as well.

Thanks.

[TCB]

Ciao everyone.

My name is Sanjay Sodha and I am the Owner of The Computer Business Ltd. In Toronto,  I am also excited to be part of this community and look forward to benefiting from the expertise here - and also hope to contribute in a valuable way as well.  #swagplease

[RobertB]

Hey all!

I am a system support specialist with 20yrs in various areas of IT, and also run my own consulting services. I work for a petroleum company in Newfoundland Canada, which has only recently rolled out Meraki solutions to our satellite offices and retail outlets with more expansion to come.

Really hoping to make use of this community over the coming months, and hopefully able to contribute as well.

swagplease

[DarkStar]

@Everyone

Hello, my name is James Hill I work for Presbyterian Medical Services as the IT Infrastructure Manager. We have about 60 sites using Meraki and another 60 on other types of equipment. I look forward to sharing with this community and am egger to learn more.

Thanks -DS

BTW: I will sign replies, notes, comments, etc. with my user name and typically abbreviated.

[Cisco-Techcom]

Hello,

I am Yoldy from Haiti. Actually working with PC HAITI SA (PCXPRESS) company. I am so glad to be part of this community and ready to share and learn from you. Meraki technology is so fascinated and I would say it is a great accomplishment by Cisco. I love it !!!!!!!!!!

[NFL0NR]

Haiti!  Nice!  we're going international!

[Southwind]

Hello,

My name is David and I work for Driving Force as an I.T. team lead, we currently utilize a fair amount of the gear that Meraki sells in our environment,  the hardware and support are great!

[Dave]

Welcome, David.  

Nice name by the way.  

[Miroslava]

Hello Everyone!

I'm Miroslava and I'm a SE for a Cisco Partner in Guadalajara, Mexico... and a big Meraki enthusiast.

[AlexS]

Hello all, I'm Alex and I work in Meraki Support in San Francisco. I believe I'm the first Support person in here but I shall not be the last. We're all looking forward to meeting the community here and helping out with some of your tougher issues.

I'm sure I'll be posting here with many of you soon!

[DarkStar]

@AlexSwelcome, glad to see some Meraki Support staff here!!

[wirednot]

Lee Badman here- long-time Meraki user (since well before Cisco acquisition) and freelance analyst/writer. Have covered Meraki often through the years. (my articles are easy to find online). Also use Meraki in my own small company outside of the day job as WLAN functionary for large university (we use Meraki as branch solution in several states/countries). I'm a fan of Meraki, but I also eval other cloud vendors regularly.  Hoping the Meraki community discussions provide value, looking forward to contributing.

[JoshW]

Hello! This is Josh Wellman with Meraki Support. I have been a part of Cisco Meraki for almost 3 years and am excited about this community!

[DarkStar]

@JoshWWelcome! Glad to see Meraki Support Staff here!

[jlandky]

Greetings All,

Jeff here from Louisville, KY. I am currently the Senior IT Business Analyst for a tier-two automotive supplier. Running full Meraki solutions in 3 of my 4 plants.

Make IT a great day!

[Fady]

Hi All

My name is Fady and I am Systems Engineer with Cisco Meraki based out of Meraki Sydney office and my role is to cover the whole APJC region. 

[cpudude]

Dale here in northern California. Network engineer by trade for the last 26 years. Supporting a non-profit in my spare time; and today was my first experience with Cisco Meraki. I'm already on the forum, and looking forward to learning for the power users! Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge; passion and experience with Meraki products.

[Myky]

Hello All,

Mykhaylo here. I work as a Support Services Engineer in London. For the last 3 weeks, l was discovering Meraki products and realised that the Community Forum was missing. I think it is very important for all vendors to have and l am glad it has finally arrived. 

Very good way to learn new things, meet other IT Professionals as well as sharing thoughts, knowledge and ideas.

Reg,

Myky

[Jak_Medina]

Hello, everybody! I am Medina. I live in Brazil, and currently, i been working with more than 300 Meraki MX64 clients. In this community, I want to become a contributor for all, bringing problems, experiences, and CASES, which I have facing day by day with my managed networks. I want to contribute with everyone, in their processes of troubleshooting and learning. For I believe that if we all add our expertise, we can learn from "Real Life", and not just from labs. Good work and good learning and growth for everyone! Greetings Jakson Medina

[RafaelM]

Welcome to the community! It is good to see the Cisco Meraki products get more and more popular in Brazil! I'm also Brazilian and, just like you, I am happy to help and contribute here!

[BHC_RESORTS]

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@Jak_Medina wrote:
Hello, everybody! I am Medina. I live in Brazil, and currently, i been working with more than 300 Meraki MX64 clients. In this community, I want to become a contributor for all, bringing problems, experiences, and CASES, which I have facing day by day with my managed networks. I want to contribute with everyone, in their processes of troubleshooting and learning. For I believe that if we all add our expertise, we can learn from "Real Life", and not just from labs. Good work and good learning and growth for everyone! Greetings Jakson Medina

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That's a lot of MX64s. ISP/end users?

[Jak_Medina]

Hello BHC_RESORTS, incredible as it may seem, we actually have this amount of equipment that feeds more than 300 sites, to end users.

[MilesMeraki]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Eliot. I'm currently living in New Zealand and working a gig within "The Instillery" as a Cloud Solutions Engineer.  We help customers on their Cloud Digital Transformation journeys by offering a wide range of solutions - Public cloud migration and feasibility strategies, migrations and Cloud centre of excellence. We also offer a wide range of solutions such as Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN and Networking as a service managed offerings and lead with Meraki as a vendor for some of these solutions.

Prior to this I was working as a Support Engineer for Meraki out of the UK office. I'm very much looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experience and looking forward to collaborating with some of the other industry experts!

Cheers,

Eliot

[JohnStephen]

John Heffernan, PhD - Tech Teacher and IT for a small elementary school in Western Massachusetts.

[PhilipDAth]

I work for a Cisco Partner called IFM located in New Zealand.  We mostly work with small to medium sized business.  We have come from a history of using the traditional Cisco Enterprise portfolio but are now moving most of SMB clients towards the Meraki family.  We love the Cisco Meraki family of products.

[MrGadgetman]

swagplease

[BlakeRichardson]

I just realised I never introduced myself so here goes.

I'm Blake and I am the IT manager at a large school as well as I am a consultant for my own IT business as well as a media producer and video game consultant. I wear many hats and always have plenty to do.

I've been using Meraki for almost two years now and love the product. 

[Fleshwound]

Hi everybody I'm Tyler West.  I'm probably a bit of an oddity in this group but I like it that way.  I have been in the industry for a while and have specifically been a network engineer at one level or another for over 20 years.  I grew up as a beef cattle farmer in a small town in KY and by some miracle got exposed to computers at an early age.  My first experience was on a Tandy Model III which pretty well gives some of you an idea of how old I am.  Besides the network engineering I'm quite an experienced Linux/BSD hack, love my Mac, and have no small amount of disdain for Windows.  Of course I have achieved my CMNA but I am also a CCNP, CCDP, and CCNA Wireless as well as Aruba ACMP (Keep the boos and hisses to a minimum please.  It was forced upon me).  I did pass my CCIE written not long ago and sat for my lab in RTP but that didn't go so well.  As we would say in the south that lab is made for a bunch of 20 and 30-something young whippersnappers.  My brain is wise and experienced but just not that fast anymore.

Aside from all that I have a wonderful wife and a son who is a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do as well as two extremely spoiled dogs.  I am a huge music fanatic and work when I can as an amateur sound engineer.

[theant]

I am Mike Butler. I grew up with networks starting with rs-232 and Ethernet in the Industrial Automation business.

I have no certifications although a doctor has told me I am certifiable. No official paper on that one but he is a professional, so that should count for something.

I am at a less than 1000 employee Industrial contractor business so am learning Meraki and Cloud stuff. Different day, different hardware... and software... and interface...

[Alan_P]

Would you be the Mike Butler who does a lot of work with schools? Like the School District of University City a million years ago?

Alan Portman

[jgutter]

Hello all,

I am the Senior Network Engineer for M/I Homes INC. We are a home builder with about 15 Divisions and around 1500 employees.

Run a bunch of Meraki Z1's MX80's and ton of AP's

[Steelyeydwifimn]

Hi, I'm the subject matter expert for wireless in Fujitsu services in the UK. I work across multiple wireless vendors particularly with Meraki

where I've been responsible for creating the dashboard for all our customers. I am working with a number of large number retail customers using pretty much all of the Meraki product range from large MX600s to the little Z1s. I'm particularly involved with Wireless design and implementation with occasional 4th line support role. I'm involved with the world wireless community and attend conferences all over the world to encourage, make friends and of course promote technical expertise in wireless design and implementation.  

[MerakiTexan]

Hi everyone!  My name is Chuck Losh and I work at as a IT Infrastructure Engineer in Plano, TX.  I am a CMNO and a Cisco Meraki Fanatic!  Been using meraki products prior to the Cisco merger.  They have made my job much much easier.

[JPAWELCHAK]

Good day,

John Pawelchak, Managing Partner at Cohort Networks Inc. We are a Managed Services Provider (MSP) specializing in macOS and iOS deployments in the greater Toronto market. We have been Meraki partners since 2011 selling mainly to Cohort's MSP clients but recently launched an on-line Meraki store at https://cohort.ca servicing the Canadian market place and will be launching similar stores servicing the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). US store to launch in the coming weeks and EU store in the coming months. We work closely with small/medium business and the enterprise meeting their Cisco Meraki hardware, licensing and deployment consulting needs.

Looking forward to getting to know more about you, your experience, expertise and challenges with the various Cisco Meraki family of products and services.

[Eric]

Greetings and Salutations,

My name is Eric and I am the Sr. Network Engineer for Marcone Appliance Parts located in St. Louis, MO. 

[maskjaer]

Hi - I'm Michael - a long time passionate fan of Meraki. Sales guy with a tech background!

[RoanVn_BCX]

I am Roan van Nieuwenhuizen working for BCX in South Africa. I am a Cisco Pre-Sales Specialist for the Cisco Line of Business in the Eastern Cape. I develop Enterprise Cisco solutions for all the Cisco technologies. I recently got involved in Cisco Meraki and i am very excited about this technology. It is definitely the way the world is going. 

We deployed our 1st Switching and Wireless solution at one of our customers. They are so happy with it.... i can see that they not going to need us that often anymore.... we now going to need to be more innovative in finding ways for other revenue streams.

I am looking out for Cisco Meraki Opportunities and i am very excited to talk to customers about the technology.

I like the out doors, especially 4 x 4 camping with my family away from the city - when we get the chance.

[Matt_Collins]

Hi All,

I am Matt Collins, based in the UK working for Dimension Data. I have been the the Datacomms/Networking arena for 29 Years (Funny enough as of today (4th Sept 2017)   I have an expanse of knowledge gain over the years and happy to advise where I can.  I have been working with Meraki for about 5 years now and been a Meraki Master for just under a year.  

Looking forward to chatting with you all about the wonderful world that is Meraki

[lloydjm]

Hello All! Jon here. I am Solution Design Engineer for CBTS, a Cisco Gold Partner and large MSP for Cisco Meraki with our Network as a Service product.

My wife and I welcomed our first child 7 weeks ago, a healthy boy name Colin. 

Our company is currently expanding across the United States via Partner Channel and M&A so between growing demand for LAN/WAN/VoIP design and a baby at home, I don't sleep much right now!

[JoeN6R]

Hi all,

  Joe from the Chattanooga TN area.  I have a breath of experience in different platforms.  Use Meraki products with many of our customers here and want to be able to discuss use cases for Meraki gear.  When it is a great fit and when ...well, it is not a good fit.  We use Cisco products SMB to enterprise, Sonicwall, HP switching in SMB areas.  Dell/HP/Cisco compute side - IBM/HP/EMC/Nimble for storage. From our wireless side we use Meraki and Ruckus as well as some Cisco - run into Ubiquiti at allot of customers.  For telco its Mitel / Cisco.  We looked a the MC but ... MTF on that if asked.  We are a reseller but presales - post sales and installing this gear really separates the "Marketing Claims" from the "No kidding - this is what it does and does not do" 

Finally, have a customer that is using MXs MRs  and MSs throughout the network.  Pretty large and am learning some of the great things Meraki brings to the table first hand and also some of the shortcomings.

Here to help and learn - will not blow smoke.  Seen that too much.

[wbenton]

I'm Walter, a network consultant with almost 40 years of experience tucked under my belt.

I'm Meraki self taught on the MX-65, MX-450, MS-120/225, MR-32/33/34.

FWIW

[CarolineS]

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@wbenton wrote:

I'm Walter, a network consultant with almost 40 years of experience tucked under my belt.

I'm Meraki self taught on the MX-65, MX-450, MS-120/225, MR-32/33/34.

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Hi @wbenton and welcome to the Meraki Community! Looks like you've already been active around here - hooray! Have a wonderful weekend.

[RodT49]

Hello!

My name is Rod and I am a Sr. Systems Engineer for a financial services company based in Chicago, IL. I got my CMNO certification early this year and I’m glad to be part of this community. Since 2016, we have Merakified 70 sites using MX64, MS220, and MR32s & 33s. We are currently in the process of Merakifying another 20 sites by end of 3Q. So far it’s been great! I’m excited to learn more from this community!

[ITzhak]

Hi,

I'm Itzhak and I manage the network for the Core Group, South Africa

[Gardner]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Gardner Smith.  I am a network engineer at AT&T.  Took my CMNA cert in July.  Very cool product and am looking forward to diving into more of the world of Meraki.

Gardner Smith

Thanks

Gardner Smith

[ChrisC]

Hi, My name is Chris, I work for Custom Computer Specialists out of Long Island New York and our New England office in Lincoln Rhode Island. We cover most of the upper East Coast when it comes to Cisco and Meraki. Love the product and I can't wait to see what happens next. Cheers!!!

[Jack]

Hello Everyone !! My name is Jack Siah and I work for Gates Hudson. We offer real estate services exclusive to the Greater Washington Area headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.  We managed over 100+ Residential & Commercial Property.  We utilized the full stacked of Meraki devices on many of our managed property and will be adding alot more as fast as we can.

Here is a picture of our Mearki emerngency loaner kit we created

[Dave]

Nice  Mearki emergency loaner kit !!!! 

[jasjones415]

@Jack

Thanks for sharing - that is an awesome kit.  I'm guessing these units are under a single license pool so there isn't an on-boarding process to register new licenses; you can go right to testing, service restoration,etc. Curious if you have any best practices to share to assure the loan process - such as storage of the kit to make sure everything is operational ready,  asset tracking.

I work for Telaid, a services company that supports customers operating their own Meraki networks. We provide field services so this is interesting to me.

Thanks - J

[Jack]

Hi Jasjones415,

You are right. I create this emergency kit on its own organization and its mostly configured ready to go. Most of our smaller managed site offices does not have or cannot afford redundancy equipment. If 1 equipment fail we can quickly deploy a loaner to keep the site up and running ASAP so that we have some time dealing with RMA / replacement.  Few weeks ago a contractor accidentally cut a copper phone line while digging the road on one of our property and it will takes few days for the copper line to be repair by the phone company. We immediately deploy our MC phones and forward all call  from the site phone number to the MC number  and they are up and running within hours. The site are so happy with the fancy touch screen  Meraki MC phones they end up converting their old legacy phone system to Meraki MC.

[Danny_Huberdeau]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Danny Huberdeau and I am an Senior Account Executive at Bell.

CMNO #: 002273

[DavidT]

I'm David Thomason and I own a company that resells Cisco Meraki and Firepower. I was a very early employee at Sourcefire and I've owned Thomason Technologies for 10 years providing products and services all over the US.

[RodrigoC]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Rodrigo and I am one of the San Francisco based Support Managers! 

I'm thrilled to see how many awesome people have already become active members of this community! = )

[SolutionsMaxElg]

I'm Max Elg from "Solutions", Inc. (Partner in Spencer, IA).

[net-techguy]

Hello all-

My name is Alex and I work at Manhattan Tech Support in New York City. I am one of 2 Senior network engineers at our organization where we install Meraki on a regular basis.

We are currently managing approximately 65 Meraki organizations varying from a single network of 10-20 users to organizations with 10+ networks and a few thousand regular users while repaidly growing in deployments.  We are always looking for new clients to take on and strongly recommend Meraki as part of our full managed services solution so feel free to reach out.

-Alex

[glantz]

Hi everyone,
I'm Gregg from Upstate New York. I own a small MSP and have been working with and selling Meraki products for three years. Good to see everyone joining the community.

[EmiliKrush]

Hi All,

Im Emili K , product manager for Cisco Meraki in Israel.

Love the product & Technology !

Hope i can use this community as well 🙂

Nice to meet you all 🙂

[NHBrit]

Hi there, my name is Sue and I work at RTM Communications Inc, we are a long time Cisco and now Meraki VAR - Recently put in a Meraki wireless network for a customer and my engineer said it was there first time he'd seen someone so excited about new equipment - pretty cool !

[Cloudbreaker]

Hi, 

Excited to join in the fun. 

We are building a Next Gen MSP on Meraki Tech. Will be sharing 

[TninjaK]

Hello! My name is Thomas and I represent GlobalMac IT. We do Managed IT Services for Apple based law firms across the country. We only deploy the MX series Routers and I have been in love with them since the day I started working with them. Meraki is actually what got me interested in networking and I look forward to the wealth of knowledge in this community and interacting with like minded individuals.

[BallaBooyeah]

Hi all,

Andrew from Ricoh IT Services in Melbourne Australia. I have been selling Meraki for several years and love the products and so do my customers.  I'm joining the community to learn about more experiences with SD WAN using the MX devices and losing the routing needed in traditional networks.

[SimonB]

Hi All, 

I'm Simon, i work for a Systems Integrator and Managed Service provider... 

I've made some comments/suggestions via the portal and have never really heard anything back so maybe this is the ideal place to discuss where i see improvements can be made.

As a managed service provider the reporting function from Meraki is fantastic... although skewed and sometimes difficult to extrapolate.  What i'd really like to see is a report that provides downtime of AP's or a what AP's are of a concern either by too many clients attached or excessive throughput etc... (this is where someone tells me its possible)  

[PizzaNet]

Hi,

My name is Jeff Wright, I'm a Pre-sales Engineer working for Presidio in Grand Rapids, Michigan we are a Cisco Meraki partner and integrator. Currently have the full Meraki network stack deployed at home. I've helped Education, Healthcare, and Retail customers design and deploy successful Meraki solutions since the Cisco acquisition of Meraki.

[enaknitsuj]

I FOUND THE GNOME

[CarolineS]

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@enaknitsuj wrote:

I FOUND THE GNOME

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Nice work, @enaknitsuj - but unfortunately, that's not the right gnome! Our gnome is wearing a yellow jacket.

[cara_forsman]

Hi Merki-ites!  

My name is Cara Forsman and I am an Account Executive at CADABLE.  We are a CISCO Meraki partner and I take pride in helping IT professionals and organizations help solve their network infrastructure and connectivity headaches.  Basically, I help people sleep at night.  I also enjoy sleeping at night, so I already have something in common with our customers.  

We are a locally owned business in Washington State and personally see to the successful migration to cloud in many forms.  We are an AWS partner, in addition to Autodesk, Bluebeam, Macrium and others.  You will always get a live person on the phone.  We are NOT a volume reseller, we are a Value Added Reseller and specialize in working with AEC and Manufacturing customers, though we can work with any number of different types of customers.  We love the Pacific Northwest!  Go Seahawks!  You can reach me at cara@cadable.com

[Bob-AleziaTech]

Hi, I'm from Alezia Technologies up in Quebec, Canada !

Mainly french speakin but versatile in writing 🙂

We are a consulting /integrators firm mainly involved with Meraki for almost 3 years now to provide managed services to our clients.

Looking forward to share in this community.

[Ben]

Hi all!

My name is Ben and I am a System Engineer for Cogetix in Belgium.
We work in the area of small to mid sized business, non-profit at the moment.

I have my CMNA since this year and been working with Cisco Meraki for several years now.

Quite exited about this community hoping to learn a bit more and share my experience with the community!

Cheers,

Ben

[Fruju]

Hi, I'm "Fruju".

I work out of Brisbane, Australia (mostly), have worked with Meraki products for around 5 years now and have enjoyed watching the product range expand and grow.

I mostly deal with site surveys and then implementing the meraki rollout to airports, shopping centres and hotels, offices etc.

Flick me a message if you want to chat 

[american_nisei]

Hey y'all!!

My name is Doug and I am a partner with Big Fish Technology in Georgia. We work in the area of small to mid sized business and have a number of Meraki installations under management.  Very exited about this community and am hoping to learn a bit more and share my experience with the community!

When not working at Big Fish, I enjoy spending time with my family and good friends, working on DIY projects around the house, and spending time outdoors.

~Doug

[Tastesen]

Thanks, happy to join.

Have been working with Meraki products for 6 months now. We have just replaced our cisco classic network with Meraki - so now Firewalls, swithces and AP's is all Meraki. 

IT is very easy to manage also over long distances 🙂

[DraganR]

Hi Everyone,

I am IT professional for last 17 years and Cisco Certified for last 14 years but I am new Cisco-Meraki consumer who try to get familiar with Meraki as much is possible.

Sincerely,

Dragan Rajevic

[BeachBum]

My name is Bill and I'm an IT Manager in central PA. Almost my entire network of 4 sites is Meraki, and what isn't will be replaced by Meraki gear next year. While my title has "manager" in it, I'm a single point of failure...

[Enrico_Romero]

Hi Guys!

Enrico here! Systems Engineer here from a Distributor in the Philippines.

This is the first time that I'll be handling Meraki. Mainly I'm handling Cisco's Security Solution.

Hobbies are swimming, eating, cooking and sleeping. 😄

Currently into planting Capsicum chinense. Still a Newbie when it comes to planting.

That's all!

[route_map]

Greetings, My name is Lucky i am a Pre-Sales engineer for all Cisco Products for a distribution company,

I am here to learn and share

[Samir]

I've been working with Meraki products shortly after they introduced the Indoor and Outdoor (OD2) pro products. While more expensive than other wireless deployments at the time, our hotel deployments were absolutely thrilled with the reliability of the products and the wifi. Even when an AP or gateway failed, the only way we even knew was because the dashboard told us so--the site never knew of the failure.

The Meraki products were one of a kind at one point, but now the competition has caught up to a certain extent. I still recommend the Indoor and Outdoor products to smaller networks that need more management than bandwidth.

Little known fact--the Outdoor OD2s can use a wired backhaul when they are the only devices on a LAN and their mesh will be based on the wired link vs the wireless one. Bandwidth via this wired backhaul was limited to 11Mbps, even with 100Mbps switches, but was better than a purely wireless mesh.

[BrandonS]

Brandon at Team One Solutions here.  We are a Cisco partner in the San Francisco Bay Area.  We specialize in SMB Networks, Voice and Cable.  Just here to learn and help.  I also follow Meraki on Reddit and Spiceworks.

[PacketHauler]

I'm a little late to the party! I'm Nils, and I'm the lead network and voice engineer for BioScrip. We have about 70 pharmacies and infusion suites across the country and 95% of them are using the full Meraki stack now. In about a month we'll be at 100%!

[Ryan-Zimmerle]

Hello Everyone, 

Ryan Zimmerle here from Forrest M. Bird Charter Schools, we are a small school located in Sandpoint, Idaho.  We are a full stack customer if you will and I look forward to being a part of this community.  Thank you Cisco Meraki.  

Ryan 

[CBM]

Good morning,

First I apologize for my english, I'm studying english currently, sorry if I write something wrong.

Currently I'm working in Equipo IVI, head quarter of IVI, it is an Assisted Reproduction group with more than 70 clinics in 13 countries.

I like networking and security, and worried about them : ) The last news about cracking WPA2 it's a shock for me : ( Also like travel, I have been in several countries in Europe, and EEUU and Japan. Japan culture is amazing for me.

[JosePla]

Hi everyone. My name is Jose and I've been selling and installing Meraki equipment since before it was adquiere by Cisco. I'm sure this community will help to answer doubts and help other people with our experience.

[DougieChef]

Hey folks, my name is Doug and I'm new here and just got MX65 along with MR33.  Looking for pearls of wisdom as I get my network up and running.  

I'll start searching the boards to see how I set up my MX65  to handle the DHCP services from my second location.

[CBM]

Hi DougieChef, to implement a DHCP relay it is easy, in menu Security Appliance in DHCP in Client Addressing select "Relay DHCP to another server" option, and in the box below you write your DHCP server IP.

P.d.: apologize for my english, I'm spanish and I'm learnig english lenguage : )

[BHEEM]

Its a privilege to be part of this excellent, fast innovating appliance community, and as a part of 200 + network devices in my organization I'm sure I would serve and being active in this community for guiding people who has doubts about the products which we have handled so far..!!!!!!!!!!

technology excites me, that spark drives me through out the all the stages in my career...

[Andrew-nedwos]

Good afternoon one and all ..

My name is Andrew and ... oh, wrong meeting.

I'm a principal within nedwos and we help SME's with all of the "back office" type work in a complete managed way. eg all their IT, comms, software etc along with processing accounts, paperwork, monthly accounts and such.

All this is tied-up with best-of-breed technology that most SME's don't know about or cannot access because of licence counts/fees because they are too "expensive" for the bigger service providers to support. We are the middle-men, and provide exceptional first-line support for our clients, building upon the experience of all our clients.

This allows SME's access to the best enterprise security, data protection, voice/voip comms, workflow automation, marketing and systems.

We ARE your office, allowing you time to do your business.

[JoelKelley]

Hi there Community.  My name is Joel and I work for a managed network an security service provider SageNet based in Tulsa, OK with offices also in Reston, VA, Marietta, GA, Chicago, IL, and Philadelphia, PA.  I've been an avid Meraki fan, user and champion since 2011.  I'm in our sales engineering team so I work closely with our sales teams, customers, and our network engineering team to design solutions for customers and of course, I see most things through green colored glasses so to speak.  The majority of our customers are multi-site, distributed C-Store, restaurant and retail chains. And I was honored to have attended the March 2017 Meraki Masters session.  Cheers!

[Daniel]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Daniel Jean-Toussaint and I am a Network Administrator and IT Manager for a private school in the Greater New York City Area.  I am excited to be a part of this brilliant community and look forward to sharing my knowledge and learning from you all.

[MerakiDave]

Hello Meraki Community! 

I'm MerakiDave (no, not the guy in this video, but yes, my name really is Dave).

I'm a Pre-Sales Meraki Systems Engineer based in the US on the east coast.

Thrilled to see Meraki Community off to an excellent start the last couple months, and excited to be a part of it!

[MRCUR]

@MerakiDave Are you Dave S. who works with Matt S.? 

[Terry015]

Hi: I am Terry Howard with PCM. We currently support approx. 10 customers who are utilizing meraki ap's security appliances and switches.

[CarolineS]

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@Terry015 wrote:

Hi: I am Terry Howard with PCM. We currently support approx. 10 customers who are utilizing meraki ap's security appliances and switches.

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Welcome, @Terry015! If you have any questions as you support your customers, do feel free to post in the relevant Product & Technology board.

[CarlosRu]

Hi all,

My name is Carlos Ruiz. I am wireless engineer & Cisco Meraki specialist at Lennar Corp, a nationwide homebuilder with a massive Meraki network. I moved from the San Francisco bay area to the sunny Florida state where I live with my wife and baby boy. I am an ex-Meraki SE. I am very excited about joining this community to continue learning from Meraki engineers and users as well as share what I know.

Happy networking!

[AugieV]

Hello Everyone

My name is Augusto Venegas I am the IT Administrator at a private High School in Miami Florida. We have been using Meraki AP's for 6 years and recently upgraded our switches to Meraki. Looking forward to contributing. 

[jared_f]

Hi All! I guess I never formally introduced myself to the community. I am sixteen and into all things technology - networking, 3D printing, builds, and much more. Over the past two years, I have taught myself the MDM framework of Apple (both iOS and Mac) using several providers: Jamf, AirWatch, Meraki (my personal favorite), Simple MDM, and MobileIron (to name a few). I do part-time IT consulting for 1:1 deployment, network builds, and blog about my experiences. Currently, I am working on training myself on Windows Server and AD implementation at a large scale. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on Meraki MDM, I am also very active in that specific "sub" community here. . . so if you ask, I may respond to your post!

[Andreas-B]

I'ma big fan Meraki. any first time with Meraki is 5 years ago. I'm a big Fan from Techno Music and I love they Nature One Festival. I love myJob, my Friends and 30 years my wife.....and live your Life

[JamesGPS]

hello

[felipeteixeiram]

Olá, Sou Felipe Teixeira, sou Analista de Ti no Cartório 6º Oficio de Notas.

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[Chintan425]

Hi ,

I am Chintan , a Network engineer by profession and currently employed In FTD Inc Systems engineer (networking).

From India and I am fine cook as well.Playing classical musical instruments is my another hobby.

I love Meraki access points.....!!!!!!!

[NVLady]

Hello,

My name is Beth and I work for the State of Nevada.  We are starting to roll out Meraki as a guest solution for visitors.  I look forward to learning more from this community. 

[Vineet]

Hello Everyone !!

This is Vineet from Dimension Data. I have just started exploring with Meraki products from past few months.

Completed CMNO and CMNA certifications.

Looking forward to learn this technology.

[cmiarshvac]

Hello, my name is Chad, I am using the Dashboard to manage a mobile first, cloud first workforce. I have experience with the MX products as well.  I am here to get some help with new (to me) features and to give back in whatever way I can. 

[BruceW]

Hello Merakifiers!  

I am new to the community, but not new to Meraki. 

I look forward to sharing information with you now and in the future!

I wok in in the aerospace industry and have been in IT too many years, anyone remember thickwire ethernet?

 10base2

Bruce Winters

Linkedin profile 

[cmiarshvac]

My first networking experience was with a peer-to-peer run over Coax.  If I remember correctly, it seemed to be pretty reliable but had issues with collisions...and obviously bandwidth. 

[PhilipDAth]

@cmiarshvac - except for when someone unplugged the coax cable from their machine - anywhere on the network - taking the whole coax segment down.  I always had that happening when people were moving machines around.

[BruceW]

The caption on the picture should read 10base5 not 10base2  ( I am getting old)

The DEC transceivers where added to the coax with a "vampire" tap,   We used to have to drill a hole in the coax and be careful not to short the shielding out with the center conductor.

The good old days!  🙂

[JohnStephen]

YES!  I used to work on the network group at Digital.  I remember the first coax and taps and I worked on the first ethernet bridge and then terminal server management (TSM) software.

[BruceW]

I worked with a former DEC field service engineer in the PDP 11 days.  He was quite a character.  His DEC employee number was quite low in the 100's I think.

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YES!  I used to work on the network group at Digital.  I remember the first coax and taps and I worked on the first ethernet bridge and then terminal server management (TSM) software.

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[maddmikk]

New to Meraki.  From Mississauga Ontario.

[General]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Jesse Mendiola and I am the Senior Network Engineer for SBCTC ((Higher Education) Cisco Meraki.

[Peter]

Hi,

My name is Peter. Meraki is the best since sliced bread! Makes my job so much easier! #swagplease

[General]

Hi,

My name is Jesse Mendiola. Meraki is the greatest!

#swagplease

[Perryt]

Good morning everyone, I'm Perry.   I am the Director of IT at a small medical device company in Seattle.   I have been using Meraki for a few years now and love the suite of products.   I currently have about 40 networks up and running external to the company HQ and the full stack of gear running internal. 

#swagplease

[Perryt]

swagplease

[Tdufford]

Hello!  My name is Tyler and I'm currently a network administrator of the Northeast's largest furniture retailer.  We are currently considering a Meraki deployment and I look forward to using these boards for help as we go!

[Ensposito]

Hello, I am Steve Ens from Winnipeg and a long time Meraki admin.  Love the product and the staff.  The integration with Cisco is paying dividends in some of the new features.  Love it.  

[PabloMojica]

Hello, 

My Name is Pablo Mojica working as a Systems Administrator in Eastern PA for a University. We currently just deployed about 350 Access points on our campus. The vast majority being MR30H's. I am hoping to get involved in this community group in order to understand and fully utilize every feature our of the Meraki hardware and cloud infrastructure.

In my spare time, I play with my daughters and go drive in my mustang. 

[Miles]

Hello! I'm Miles, I've been using Meraki products for the last 5 years. From troubleshooting to setting up I've done a lot, I still have a lot to learn, but I might be able to help guide someone to something that took me some time to learn!

[pmac299]

Hello, my name is Phil.  I've been using Meraki here at work (and at home) for 3 years now.  I love the visibility and ease of deployment!  But like Miles, I still have a lot to learn!  Thanks. 

[WJenness]

Hi there!

My name is Wayne, over the past couple of years, we have started using Meraki Access points and Firewalls, it's been a great experience so far, and I look forward to seeing what this community will bring.

Thanks!

-w

#swagplease

[Razor_John]

Hello Everyone,

I am John. I am a Network Solutions Engineer for Razor Technology and the primary for our Meraki practice. I look forward to learning a lot here and meeting some great people.

[riarqui]

Hello my name is Ricardo

I'm the system admin for two small cities in the Chicago suburbs; We use Meraki Waps in all our locations

[Mikanator]

Hello Everyone, 

Miguel here.

Currently wifi lead and network engineer at my company.

Greatly enjoy the Meraki solutions and ease of management for our locations.

Enjoy mountain biking, pokemon hunting with my nieces and nephews, and great hole in the wall places with good drinks.  Suggestions for any of them is greatly welcome (:

[SRoberts]

Hello!

I'm Steve Roberts and I'm a network engineer/sales engineer for Specialized Computer Solutions (SCS) in Grand Rapids, MI. We have worked with Meraki since about 2009 - pretty early on and definitely pre-acquisition! I just completed CMNA and look forward to the ever expanding depths that Meraki has to offer!!!

Thanks!

[bktexan87]

Hello,

Clint here.  I am the IT Manager for Flight Club NY Ltd.  We are a physical/online retailer with 6 facilities running various Meraki equipment.

[Joel]

Hi everyone! I'm Joel with the Orvis Company and I help manage our growing Meraki network.

[free_electron]

Hello there peeps,

nice to join this community. Looking forward to it.

F.E.

[free_electron]

Hello there peeps,

nice to join this community. Looking forward to it.

F.E.

[kjwolf326]

Hello!

My name is Kevin Wolf and I've been using the Meraki family for 4 years now.  Started with just APs and now have a full stack of switches and newly purchased Cameras.  Love the ease of use and support.  

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[scsideath]

From Toronto! Cisco certified engineer and now excited about Meraki with my first MX64

[kaztech]

Hi my name is Roy Kasenchak and I am a Senior Network Administrator for company on Long Island NY.  I have been in the IT field for over 20yrs.

Spoiler

“swagplease”*

[cdalton]

Hi Everyone! I am Cindy from Fort Collins Colorado! I really love all of our Meraki products! Hope to win some swagplease!

🙂

[GDBJNC]

Hello.  Network Engineer here.  I've been working with Meraki before they were purchased by Cisco and have worked with Cisco devices since 1996.  Big fan of Meraki and have convinced my current company to use Meraki as the new Wi-Fi standard as well as using the smaller switches for small remote sites.

#swagplease

[AndrewPokha]

Good afternoon, my name is Andrew with Storcom Inc., a Solutions Provider in the Greater Chicago Area.

I'm a huge fan of the Meraki gear and have deployed Meraki at a few client sites over the last year.

Got on the Meraki in a way of a special use case scenario.

Had a need to run a VPN tunnel to a PC and a few PoE cameras at multiple remote sites behind customer router/firewall and with minimal intervention.

Each site was identical, so templates were used.

The Z1 teleworker appliances were great for the above purpose.

Even did a deployment of the MC Phones, they are pretty slick!

Only thing I have not touched yet are the security cameras.

[EagleTech]

Hello Guys  My name is Eduard and Im with Eagle Tech Corp  we love Meraki and we are  cisco meraki embassadors in Washington DC Metro Area

[COSavvy]

Hello - Mike Olson with Computer Savvy

Specialize in small business MSP administration. Looking for more in depth information to help my clients have the best Meraki experience. 

[ChrisK]

Hey ChrisK here, Telecommunications Manager expired CCNA.  Love the Meraki devices a ton.

[PeterO]

Hello. My name is Peter and I work as a Network Analyst at a large hospital in Dothan, Alabama. We have deployed Meraki MX devices and APs to all of our external clinics and a few Z1 teleworker devices as well. 

[GMHS]

Hi there!

I'm Tyler Fisher, CIO at Gordon Memorial Health Services.  We run all Meraki with the exception of our core switches (which we'll replace with Meraki soon) and our phone system.

I actually wrote a little blog post a while back about our experience with Meraki, you can read it here if you're into that kind of thing.

Can't wait to "network" (yep, pun intended) with you all 

#swagplease

[Coupe2112]

I'm so happy to have received the email about the Community page!  This is something I was asking about from the first when we decided to deploy Meraki.  We're a fashion company with about 70 retail locations.  Installing Meraki has been an absolute life saver as we get into the holiday season!

-Coupe2112

[BruceW]

Welcome to the Meraki Family!

[garretl]

Hi all!  I'm Garret, from FPI Management in California.  I've been in IT for the past 18 years.  Among other things, I'm currently monitoring our deployed Meraki APs, which is now sitting at around 12 sites throughout CA.  I'm looking forward to learning valuable tips and tricks here in the forums.

[Wireless-Seeker]

Hi!

[RSD-Craig]

My name is Craig and I am the Technology Director at Randolph School District, Wisconsin. I oversee and manage all things technology, wired and wireless infrastructure, classroom technology, building technology, phones, access control, printing, teacher/student/administration devices. Basically, if it plugs into a wall outlet or a network jack, I get called. We have a Meraki Wireless system and love it. 

[SalmanK]

Hi Everyone,

Systems Admin here! using Meraki products (APs and Firewalls) from last one year, absolutely love it! Looking forward to get and provide help.

[JesseSunday]

Hi All!

IT Director - Meraki Fan - Martini Lover.

Sarasota, Florida.

MX100, MX80, MR34s, Z1s

[furicle]

Hi All,

I'm furicle,   sysadmin / fixer of anything that plugs into the wall for a small auto parts jobber chain in Ontario, Canada.

We've got a couple of branches using Meraki wireless, and enjoy the simple management.

[furicle]

Oooops - almost missed it. #swagplease 🙂

[Michael_M]

In IT since 1980, using Meraki to simplify my life and the business world of my customers

[btd1967]

Hello all,

     System admin  in Cincinnati Ohio, I work for a MSP and we just started to use Meraki.

[kenco8801]

I've been using MR, MS, MX, MDM and now MV products for about 4 years in total.

Absolutely love the meraki products and very glad I chose Meraki as our platform compared to Aerohive.

[brad1]

Hi,

My name is Brad and I manage the systems for a small manufacturing company in Minneapolis, Mn.

[theFixer]

Hello Everyone, I am Justin.  I am the IT Director for Sevier Heights Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN.  We are almost complete with our switch from Catalyst equipment to Meraki at our Main Campus, 3 more switches to go.  We are utilizing Meraki switches, access points, Systems Manager, and MX devices.

[Kujoh]

Greetings,

My name is Kurt and I am a Systems and Network Administrator for the Yuma District Hospital in eastern Colorado. We are a 12 bed rural hospitl and associated clinic with an IT staff of 3. Our responsibilities include everything low voltage, hardware support and software support.

We finished a transition to Meraki switches in June from Cisco switches. I am enjoying learning about the Meraki system and the comparative ease to Cisco for programming. The web interface is such a change from what I am used to.

I am excited to share knowledge with other folks here in the community.

[munanz]

Hello Meraki Fam!

Martin here, Sys Admin for door hardware company based in NY with 6 other branches all on Meraki. Need me some swagplease!

[SteveBeckerle]

Hi, 
I'm Steve Beckerle and work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.  We've been using Meraki AP's for close to 4 years.

[Scott_Windham]

Howdy!  Its good to be here.

[GSanchez006]

Hello everyone!  My name is Gabriel.  I am the Director of Managed Services at Unified Technologies in Miami, FL and a CMNA.  I am happy to be a part of this beta community and ready to learn and share info about the wonderful world of Meraki! 

[RLEWIS]

Hello,

[hd]

Hi, I'm Heather and I am the Network and Telecom Supervisor at a manufacturing company that uses various Meraki products in PA.

#swagplease

[Tammy]

I am the network admin for Williams County in North Dakota.  I love Meraki products and am very excited to see this forum!

[Announcer]

Hi I'm Greg, user of Meraki services.  Hope to learn more from here, and excited

[jonesr1]

Hello,

My name is Randy Jones, I work at University of Chicago and we've recently deployed some Meraki equipment for remote sites and so far everything is going great!