Stock Levels

[Sanderan]

Anyone else having issues with timelines for Meraki Firewall Appliances? Just got a 47 week lead time on a Meraki MX-85...

[Ryan_Miles]

Some products do have very extended lead times. This has been an issue for many months now and not just for Cisco, but many companies. Cars are in high demand/short supply, months long backorder on refrigerators and dishwashers, etc.

That said it's not impacting all models. I show the MX95 &105 being readily available. Perhaps work with your reseller and see if a MX95 would meet the needs/can be negotiated to a reasonable price for you. If it has to be the 85 unfortunately there's no getting around the delay.

[Sanderan]

I have asked our reseller to provide pricing on the MX-95. There is however a huge price jump between the two models.

[DarrenOC]

Hi @Sanderan , I would also involve your Meraki AM at this point to see if you can have further discount applied to the MX95. Worth a shot.

[Sanderan]

Hello @DarrenOC. I have reached out and awaiting feedback. Hopefully they come to the party

Thank you 🙂

[PhilipDAth]

I'm telling my customers as they order things now to expect lead times of around 6 months - and that is a guess because of the global issues.  It might turn up earlier, it might turn up later.

[NiSystems]

I also order an MX85 for my customer.  Could not replace the old unit under warranty as it was a lightning strike. I have ordered a new one and the customer have to wait until November for a new one. We are going to lose Meraki customers. Don't know if I should continue to promote Meraki to my customers.  Also, the customer has purchased a licence that he can't utilize. Very unhappy customer.

[PhilipDAth]

This might be a good opportunity to talk about redundancy.  Sell them a second MX85.  They only need to buy the hardware (no licence) when used as a warm spare.

The cost of the extra MX85 will seem like cheap insurance now.

[NiSystems]

No MX85 stock is available in South Africa. The customer placed the order for the second MX I cannot deliver. Luckily I sold him a second MX in January. The only thing now is he has no failover.

[BlakeRichardson]

Same issue with all Vendors although I seem to be able to get stock of Apple laptops pretty easily although being a priority customer helps. 

[RumorConsumer]

Wanting to buy an MX75 and it’s saying almost a whole year lead time…