I agree. If we had required faster uplinks, we would have replaced the Meraki's with another firewall. Fortunately we don't need the extra bandwidth, so it doesn't matter for our use case. But the companies that make their own chips are able to offload some CPU intensive things to ASIC chips. That is the way that all manufacturers should be headed and hopefully Cisco will instead of trying to cram everything into an intel system on a chip. Hardware $ for $ Meraki is far from competitive. But the software is what makes us stick around. Too bad the software stack can't run on another large brand's hardware, then we could FortiMeraki or MerakiGate.... UnifiMeraki....
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