Hi all,     Joe from the Chattanooga TN area.  I have a breath of experience in different platforms.  Use Meraki products with many of our customers here and want to be able to discuss use cases for Meraki gear.  When it is a great fit and when ...well, it is not a good fit.  We use Cisco products SMB to enterprise, Sonicwall, HP switching in SMB areas.  Dell/HP/Cisco compute side - IBM/HP/EMC/Nimble for storage. From our wireless side we use Meraki and Ruckus as well as some Cisco - run into Ubiquiti at allot of customers.  For telco its Mitel / Cisco.  We looked a the MC but ... MTF on that if asked.  We are a reseller but presales - post sales and installing this gear really separates the "Marketing Claims" from the "No kidding - this is what it does and does not do"  Finally, have a customer that is using MXs MRs  and MSs throughout the network.  Pretty large and am learning some of the great things Meraki brings to the table first hand and also some of the shortcomings.   Here to help and learn - will not blow smoke.  Seen that too much. ... View more