And remember that no AP license is ever tied to any actual piece of hardware.  So if you end up with 5 AP licenses, or whatever quantity, that simply is how many can be active in your Dashboard at any time.  Regardless of which models might be mixed and matched.  No Meraki license is ever tied to a serial number, only an "instance" of that piece of equipment.  Also note that there is a licensing calculator that might prove useful.  https://dashboard.meraki.com/manage/dashboard/license_calculator   Run this past your local Meraki sales team as well, because as you indicated, sometimes USAC/eRate rules can make this a bit tricky, and could require a little licensing gymnastics on the back end.   ... View more

Hey @Butters,    I would recommend using traffic shaping and quality of service as much as possible. That way you can have granularity over what traffic is going to receive what portion of bandwidth.    Regarding the impact, I agree with the guys above and would normally expect encrypted traffic to chew up double the bandwidth normally used. The overhead for VPN is not that much, but the process of encrypting and decrypting traffic can be quite time consuming.    Thanks! Giacomo ... View more