We had Meraki for 3 years and switched to FortiNet, and we still have home offices on Meraki. There is a learning curve as those things are 10x more capable and feature rich, but also more complex. They do have cloud mnagement as well, but if a device comes with gig ports, it's pushing  gig. I've been pushing ~300  clients through 2x 1gig uplinks with a FortiGate 60F (~$1000) without any problems. ... View more

Please, in the link below is mandatory a one-armed concentrator to establish a EBGP connection in the  DC side? Is it not possible to establish a EBGP connection between the L3 switch and the MX?   https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Networks_and_Routing/BGP ... View more

if you don't replace the 400, we might be interested in purchasing the rail mount kit(s). ... View more

We use a barracuda v300 for our on-premise email. Runs as a vm (2vcpu/8g ram) in vsphere. Does a great job at blocking almost all spam. Interface is kinda klunky, but you get use to it.  ... View more

I am curious as well.  This may be way out of line if so i apologize in advance.   Apparently you can run openwrt on the Meraki AP's such as the MR18. Now i am wondering after looking at the Meraki Support Site why the following is posted https://meraki.cisco.com/support/#policies:gpl Then if you click on the Meraki Linux Files http://dl.meraki.net/linux/index.html towards the bottom you do see the Meraki-operwrt. also there are meraki-firmware-sources as well.  does this mean you could spin up a VM ? or run it in GNS 3? or potentially run the firmware on a switch that you have let lapse for maintenance? .   ... View more

there's also a 128 rule limit placed on switches, so if you decide to use l3 routing with completely granular ACLs, be careful.  ... View more

I was able to call Meraki and get a replacement as long as I had a valid license. Have you tried calling Meraki 4159376671? What did they say? They may have SKU to purchase the proper model now as well.  ... View more