Hi, I am struggling with a decision on whether to purchase MS125-24P or MS225-24P (or even MS250s) switches. The decision is between these models for sure. They would be used solely as L2 switches. We do router on a stick. I am basing this strictly in terms of switch performance/capacity/speed/horsepower. Basically, can the MS125 handle the load, and is it as fast as the MS225. I’m running several high density WiFi APs on them, with basic guest WiFi (2-5 Mbps per guest) and some Square POS. Nothing too taxing. No datacenter. All cloud. Meraki’s product page comparison has MS125 switch performance stats that are identical to the much more expensive MS250! The switching capacity is the same. The forwarding rate is the same. The MAC entries allowed is the same. It can also do 10Gb SFPs. These are going into IDFs (only one per IDF, so I won’t be stacking). I don’t need advanced features like dual PSUs, Layer 3, stacking, management port and broadcast storm control. Meraki’s documentation makes it sound like they are identical performance-wise, so long as you don’t care about all those other features. But then they go on to say that MS125 is recommended for “SMBs” while the MS225 is for “branch and small campus deployments”. MS250s are for “medium campus deployments”. Am I missing something? Is there a difference in CPU, memory, backplane, etc. that I’m not considering? I don’t want to buy these MS125s and have them underperform (or worse, fail). It's important to mote that we do have MS225s and MS250s deployed already, and they handle our WiFi needs just fine. So the MS2xx series works fine. Will this? Thanks
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