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Imagine that network devices are a bunch people of several different job roles in a big room talking.  Imagine the noise- it’s hard to hear and people have to repeat themselves often in order to be heard.  Worst of all, when someone is looking for a specific person that they haven’t yet met, everyone in the room has to stop talking and listen to the announcement: “John D- please raise your hand so that Jane C can find you.”.   Now - imagine that the huge group of people is separated out in a logical, orderly fashion- accountants here, engineers there, etc.  Then soundproof rooms are installed for each group.  Each room has just one single door.  Each person in each room is assigned to a specific spot in the room.  And each room has an assigned room attendant.   Now- when one accountant wants to talk another they know exactly where to go in the room and they can do so directly without having to speak over the engineers.   If however an accountant needs to send a message to someone in HR, it is much easier now for the accountant to figure out that the person they need to talk to isn’t in the room.  The accountant will simply hand the message off to their room attendant.   The room attendant knows how to reach every other group, so he will deliver the message to HR’s room attendant who will deliver the message to the specific person in HR.   The soundproof rooms are VLANs.  The assigned spots in each room are switch ports.  And the room attendants are routers. ... View more

Hi there Community.  My name is Joel and I work for a managed network an security service provider SageNet based in Tulsa, OK with offices also in Reston, VA, Marietta, GA, Chicago, IL, and Philadelphia, PA.  I've been an avid Meraki fan, user and champion since 2011.  I'm in our sales engineering team so I work closely with our sales teams, customers, and our network engineering team to design solutions for customers and of course, I see most things through green colored glasses so to speak.  The majority of our customers are multi-site, distributed C-Store, restaurant and retail chains. And I was honored to have attended the March 2017 Meraki Masters session.  Cheers! ... View more

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