Yeah that is always a good plan. I have a 9300-48U stack in my lab that I am going to try this out on. I sent in the request yesterday to Cisco that allows me to convert the Cisco DNA license over to Meraki's MS cloud license and then I was going to test the modified IOS XE version on this stack and compare features both good and bad before we decide. We are planning our 5 year refresh this year and I am going to engage Meraki on the refresh as they now have aggregate models comparible to the Nexus platform which is what we use for our backbone. 5 Years ago they didn't really have the aggregate uplink capabilities that Nexus did so we went with all Cisco. The new generation of engineers I work with seem to like a GUI as they probably have less console experience so I believe with Cisco and Meraki are closer to being one company now than every before we're going to be moving in that direction with them. As a matter of fact the new high end aggregate backbone switches Meraki offer's have the Cisco logo on them.
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