I think there is a difference if you've never managed the firewalls and/or are coming from something besides Meraki. The way I'm reading OPs post is they already have Meraki in their own org and do day to day management and will still be doing day to day management and may actually own the hardware and/or licenses.   I presume Spectrum is offering some sort of MSSP type services and hence requiring they be in Spectrum's managed dash for integration reasons, but if you are in the scenario I think they are in, I don't know how that doesn't just make things harder for them. ... View more