MS250 or MS350 what would be the "best" choice!?

[YoinkZ]

Hi all,

I am about to purchase new switches for one of my offices and I was initially offered some C9200L units, which I have running in some other offices. Meanwhile we started to migrate to Meraki, both Firewalls and also Wireless. So I thought I would give a Meraki switch a try, but I don't want to make any "downgrades", compared to the C9200L which has been rock solid and performed very well.

I was mainly looking at the MS250 model, to get the layer 3 feature (compared to MS220) which would be needed in some cases. But then I also started to look at the MS350 model.

Now I'm confused, which model would you prefer and why?

Does the MS350 have the same horsepower as the MS250 or is there a difference of how much it can switch internally, stack speed etc.?

What about features, are they the exact same as well?

Thank you 🙂

[alemabrahao]

Edited....

There are some small differences, one of which is that the MS 250 supports 80Gb  stack while the 350 supports 160Gb.

Take a look at the datasheet and see what suits you best.

https://meraki.cisco.com/product-collateral/ms-family-datasheet/

[YoinkZ]

Hey,

Thanks for the link, but it says physical + virtual on both, when I look at stacking capabilities?

Nevertheless, am I right that the C9200L stacking bandwidth support is 80 Gbps, like the MS250 while the MS350 is 160 Gbps?

[alemabrahao]

 

[YoinkZ]

But how is that divided on the MS250 and MS350 then?

[alemabrahao]

I don't understand your question but this is a decision you must make, I would go with the 250, but it's up to you to decide.

[alemabrahao]

Here is a little more information.

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Layer_3_Switching/MS_Layer_3_Switching_and_Routing

[YoinkZ]

I'm sorry, I don't know how I can ask in a better way. I was just curious if the bandwidth got divided if x amount was stacked or something like that. But overall it seems that they are pretty equivalent.

But thank you for your help and suggestion :).

[ww]

What office uses that kind of bandwidths. Unless you have lots of servers onsite(in a office?). But nowedays most services you get from the cloud. 

[ww]

250 can stack.

[alemabrahao]

👍

[meraki-user]

The data sheet does say that, but it also says that both models have the same stacking hardware. which is two 40g ports. Switch vendors sometimes list bandwidth numbers in their marketing as doubled, for example, counting each 10g port as 20g, because it is full duplex, and 10g in each direction is 20g. It seems that they are doing that for the MS350, counting the two 40g ports as 80g each, for a total of 160g. Is this the case, or is there some other way that the MS350 can provide 160g of stacking with two 40g ports?

[Inderdeep]

@YoinkZ 

[YoinkZ]

So basically you get more stacking power and then there is something about the maximum routing clients. Is that really it. Is the MS250 and MS350 running on the same hardware as C9200L?

[alemabrahao]

We don't have that kind of detail. In this case, it would be a good idea to consult your Meraki sales representative.

[RWelch]

[RWelch]

MS350 has more robust routing specs than the MS250

[alemabrahao]

There aren't that big of differences.

I think that in his case the 250 would work very well.

[PhilipDAth · Accepted solution]

I've been tending to go with the MS250 - because it is cheaper.

[Inderdeep]

The only thing is cheaper and stable with more customer in their environment @YoinkZ