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Aquatoes

Aquatoes

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Member since Jun 29, 2022

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Re: Meraki Go Hardware in Meraki

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
a month ago
While yes they are potentially giving up a small amount of revenue as existing partners may gravitate to a slightly less expensive option. But what you miss is that this would open up additional revenue and scalable opportunities to be converted to Meraki who may not fully understand what it is. Additionally it would allow them to gain thousands of partners who don’t need the current higher tiers today that are with Ubiquiti, Engenius, Fortinet due to price.  I was recently at a conference with over 200 MSPs and 95% of them are using Ubiquiti for majority of their clients solely due to the ability for to get more affordable hardware. Meraki Go is already trying to go after this market and from what I hear on forums and other places it’s falling drastically short simply because the dashboard is not up to par for an MSP to be able to manage multiple organizations as well as Meraki Enterprise.  ... View more

Re: Any new Small Business Switches rumored?

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
a month ago
That would be a nice addition as well.  ... View more

Re: Meraki Go Hardware in Meraki

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
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Hey @PhilipDAth so to use a business case from my own examples as reference and other MSPs may have drastically different quantities then us. We install about 8 new sites / clients per month. 75% or 6/8 of those are smaller businesses with a UDM-Pro priced the same as the Meraki GX50 roughly around $370. Let’s just used public CDW pricing as reference an MX67 maybe be around $500 plus a yearly $200 ish license. If they rolled the GX50 at the same existing price point into Meraki Enterprise and then charged say a $100 a year license I would definitely flip over every single client. That would net them an additional couple thousand a month in hardware sales and another $100 per year in residual income on a device they are already selling today for this space.  today I am not buying any Meraki switches due to pricing and install about 8 switches per month. If they had Meraki go switches in Meraki enterprise at current hardware pricing plus say a $50 year license I would be spending an additional $2k-$3k plus an additional roughly $400 a year in residual license income.  access points we currently do UniFi which cost about the same as Meraki go access points. If they brought these into Meraki enterprise I would be installing about 10-15 more devices per month. Let’s say a $20 per year license per ap that’s about $2k a month in hardware sales plus about $200 a year in residual licenses.  if you quantify this by our average per month over a year just us being 1 msp would net them about 75k-100k in hardware sales a year they are not getting today plus about 14.5k a year in residual licensing growth that will just keep growing year over year.  Now think if they rolled this out and 8000 msps that are probably using Ubiquitous or other similar manufacturers rolled their business over for small businesses as well.  their opportunity in the SMB space is huge and they are drastically missing the mark and letting companies like Ubiquiti fill that void.  ... View more

Re: Meraki Go Hardware in Meraki

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
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I know there is 2 separate forums, but I created a post here because I am trying to show that people want to be able to use the Meraki Go Hardware inside the normal Meraki. I know we can't be the only one and hoping that this gets some upvotes here to show them what we need. ... View more

Any new Small Business Switches rumored?

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
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Has anyone heard any rumblings of new small business switches coming out? Recently they rolled out the new Wifi 6 AP on both Meraki Go and Meraki Enterprise that was more geared for small businesses. I would love to see some lower cost Switches that compare in price to the Meraki Go Switches for smaller clients but allow management in the Meraki Enterprise Dashboard.   Also we haven't seen a new MS120 range device since 2017 which seems quite a while to go without seeing any revisions. ... View more

Meraki Go Hardware in Meraki

by Aquatoes in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
a month ago
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Meraki Go seems to be  trying to compete with the Ubiquiti/Unifi's of the world. Their price points and equipment is decent and we have many clients asking us if we can manage and support the Meraki Go Line in the small business space. We are an MSP / Service Provider and have over 100 organizations in our Meraki Dashboard and we are losing a lot of small business customers who cannot afford the premium price tag of the Meraki Enterprise line of equipment. It would be awesome to get some Small business priced hardware in the range of what Meraki Go costs but add a license fee to manage it in the Meraki Dashboard.   This would allow us to bring on significantly more clients and manage them under 1 umbrella versus using other vendors like Meraki Go and Unifi to fill that void. ... View more

Meraki Go Equipment in Meraki ENT Dashboard

by Aquatoes in Make-a-Wish (Feature Requests)
a month ago
a month ago
It would be nice if we could purchase Meraki Go Equipment and pay a license fee to manage it in the Meraki ENT Dashboard.   Some of the Meraki Go Hardware is perfect for our smaller clients and the price point is much more appealing. However having to jump into different dashboards to manage different clients is a pain for a service provider like us. ... View more

Create super admin

by Aquatoes in Make-a-Wish (Feature Requests)
a month ago
a month ago
As an MSP it is nice they added the feature to manage multiple companies from 1 login, however the issue still is that I cannot easily onboard a new support staff member and give them access to all companies at once. In regular Meraki we have SAML capability through Microsoft Azure to quickly add or delete staff access. Is Meraki Go planning to add this functionality? ... View more

Re: Allow one account for Go and Enterprise

by Aquatoes in Make-a-Wish (Feature Requests)
a month ago
a month ago
This would be so helpful. We haven’t rolled out any meraki go because simple managing multiple sites and having so many different dashboards and logins is hectic for an MSP. It would be so nice to be able to manage Meraki go equipment in the regular Meraki dashboard.  ... View more

Re: Introducing the Meraki Go Router Firewall Plus

by Aquatoes in Announcements
‎06-29-2022 09:38 AM
‎06-29-2022 09:38 AM
Hello does the new GX50 support QoS. Also as an MSP we would be looking at these for some of our smaller clients. Is there an easy way to add new sites and adopt new devices for multi site management? ... View more
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