What I find that is almost bizarre if not unprecedented, that since 2007 when I started using Meraki, I had never experienced a total dashboard outage that completely affected the operational integrity of a Meraki network until last week when there was an ISP issue in Europe that for about 2 hours we lost dashboards which also impacted on VPN access (I guess because the Meraki RADIUS db is hosted within the dashboard platform). And then this has happened again today all be it in the USA However, both outages caused by ISP's with BGP issues. Ironically, one of the key features of BGP is to prevent this type of thing, I would hope (r) hope that some of the top network gurus in Meraki are re-assessing the peering and upstream connectivity and trying to understand why in one week there have been two ISP BGP issues that have taken down significant chunks of Dashboards. I reiterate personally I have never seen this before in the history of Meraki - one would question if someone has made some changes recently to the network access and peering policies within Meraki (Cisco) that has exposed their network to a higher risk.
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