Design guide for Small , medium, Large and extended campus sites

[Prabhueee35]

Hello team,

Please note we are working on recommending Meraki equipment to our customers 

I had searched the entire Meraki network documentation and couldn't find any design guide / scaling guide which provides reference designs and recommends the Meraki switch and wireless device models for sites of different sizes such as small, medium , large and extended campus sites

Can you please guide me to such reference materials which contains reference designs and sizing information SD Campus LAN /WLAN 

Thanks,

Prabhu

[DarrenOC]

Hi @Prabhueee35 , I would advise looking at the data sheets for each of the switch models.  From here you can make informed decisions about which switch models fit your site/business requirements 

[DarrenOC]

Plenty of design guide’s available 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Meraki_Campus_LAN%3B_Planning%2C_Design_Guidelines_and_Best_Prac...

[DarrenOC]

https://meraki.cisco.com/product-collateral/meraki-campus-deployment-guide/?file

[Prabhueee35]

Hello Darren,

Thanks for sharing the design materials 

I had a look at the documents which you have mentioned in the above post

I could see that the one below gives best practices 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Meraki_Campus_LAN%3B_Planning%2C_Design_Guidelines_and_Best_Prac...

Whereas this one below gives campus design that too specific to switches

https://meraki.cisco.com/product-collateral/meraki-campus-deployment-guide/?file

Whereas I am actually in need of validated Software defined (LAN/WLAN )design guides for 

1. Small sites ,

2. Medium sites,

3. Large campus sites and

4. Extended campus sites.

I could see that such reference material is available for Cisco DNA - SD Access.

If you have such similar materials in Meraki, could you please share it in this post.

Thanks,

Prabhu

[DarrenOC]

hi @Prabhueee35 - there are no Meraki CVD's for small, medium, large sites etc.  I would look at the switch model datasheets and build your solutions out from there:

meraki_datasheet_ms_family.pdf (cisco.com)

[Brash]

As far as I know these don't exist.

However you might find some additional information in the partner portal (if you're a Cisco partner)

https://www.merakipartners.com/ 

https://salesconnect.cisco.com/ 

Otherwise if you're investigating this on behalf of a specific client, grab your Cisco rep as they should be able to organize resources to help make suggestions around the most appropriate equipment choices.

[Teinvoley]

Jumping in on this older post because I’ve seen more people asking similar questions lately. I’ve had good luck using Meraki’s sizing tool inside the dashboard partner portal, but for public docs, the closest thing is the Meraki Validated Designs. Have you tried mapping site types to the MVD campus designs and adjusting switch tiers based on port count and uplink needs? Curious how you’re approaching it now.

[Teinvoley]

I’ve had to solve the same puzzle, and I ended up building my own quick-reference sheets based on real installs. I map site size to rough client counts, then match MX models, switch tiers, and AP density from Meraki’s product sheets. It’s not perfect, but it keeps proposals sane. Funny enough, I do something similar with web designer Tacoma for my web projects, just building from real needs instead of hunting for a magic chart.