Shut the revenue stream down.  You will see some action.   ... View more

We will have to see how this pans out. All we need is a customer with a $1M deal to ask for the enhancement. (I have one in mind).   You will be surprised how quickly Cisco will make it happen. ... View more

The next time you make a Meraki purchase tell the sales team you will only buy Cisco Meraki if you can manage your legacy Cisco (pick one device that you have the most of) with it.   Ask them for a roadmap as to when it's going to get done and when the rest of the portfolio will be included.   This is not a technical issue it is a political issue.     My prediction The "Meraki Child" will end up eating the Cisco parent.   This is and excerpt from "Growth by Acquisition: The Case of Cisco Systems" https://www.strategy-business.com/article/15617?gko=3ec0c   JOHN CHAMBERS:   We have a philosophy that we will eat our own young before somebody else does. In Internet years, things change at a much faster pace than you realize and we get surprised periodically. Here's an example. We acquired a company called Lightstream in 1995 for its high-end A.T.M. [asynchronous transfer mode] capability. When we acquired it, it had only about $1.5 million in hardware revenue. We paid $120 million for it. One year later, its run rate was $45 million. It was well on the path to being a success, perhaps even a home run. But then we began to notice that wide area networking and local area networking were coming together more rapidly than we had thought. Customers were telling us they were going to make buying decisions that were going to be implemented in the next year or two based on technology that was available today. In essence, they were telling us that while they liked our direction with Lightstream and liked our next-generation product, we were not going to have the market share that they needed to feel comfortable with in the next 12 to 18 months. So even though Lightstream was on a tremendously successful run rate, we literally ate our own young and acquired StrataCom for $4.5 billion -- getting a much bigger player in the A.T.M. business -- because the market changed quicker than we thought.   ... View more

Thank you CJ!    Don’t take me the wrong way.  I enjoy working with Meraki products.  You get the best feedback from customers that are passionate about your product.   😁 ... View more

I feel if you expose more people to a good product it gets a wider exceptence and use. If everyone used it to manage there home or small business devices they would use it in work as the paid version. Just my two cents. ... View more

Oh, so you where the one!  (just kidding) ... View more

    Any volunteers to help with this one?  I have a couple dozen to clean up by July. 🙂     ... View more

We could call it the coffee shop! ... View more

Trials end.  😞       A couple of years ago Meraki was giving away the first 100 users.  I like the model because it you could get your feet wet and get hooked on the dashboard.  Maybe 100 was too generous.   25 sounds about right.   🙂   @PhilipDAth wrote: You can sign up for a free trial. https://meraki.cisco.com/form/systems-manager-signup   ... View more

Grasshopper, that is just because Cisco has not allowed you to replace IOS with Meraki OS.   We need to ask Cisco for this capability and it will happen.  Cisco will listen to it's customer base.    🙂     We just need to keep asking.   Ask your salesman before you place an order, ask them when they call on you to sell you more gear.  Meraki OS could run on any white box gear.  You just need to ask, and when they say no, ask again.   The hardware is a commodity, the software is the key to the future.  🙂     If Meraki doesn't do it, then open source or another company will.     https://www.cio.com/article/3040853/software/4-principles-that-will-shape-the-future-of-it.html @PhilipDAth wrote: You can't manage "classic" or "enterprise" Cisco devices from the dashboard.  You can only manage devices that have a "Meraki" badge on them. Your best bet would be as hardware comes up for replacement to replace them with Meraki badged kit. Also note "Meraki OS" is not a replacement of IOS (which is in itself being replaced by IOS-XE).   ... View more

When the child goes to school the and the geo mapping welcomes the child, the school could take management control of the devices when trusted by the parent.   Hmm,  kind of like a "it take a village". ... View more

thanks, I will look into that for the lab, but for the great good of mankind....Just think, a parent could add all the devices that his or her family has and could keep an eye on them.  If they were lost, they could be wiped.   🙂    ... View more