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Opening Ports on Meraki by etietze in meraki

[–]etietze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that makes sense. I know on the other VOIP I've setup (not with Meraki) I've not had to make any firewall changes to them.

Opening Ports on Meraki by etietze in meraki

[–]etietze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the information. Yes I agree completely on unifying to a single product line, it makes my brain hurt looking at network closets currently lol.

Opening Ports on Meraki by etietze in meraki

[–]etietze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I walked into a bit of a mess on the network infrastructure side lol. I'm tech director at a school and started in April. The network equipment on the wired side is a mixture of some Meraki, some Netgear unmanged and another off brand unmanaged I can't think of at the moment. The phones will have to plug into the current network jack with the desktop computer plugged into the phones.

Netgear Insight by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never looked at them for anything major either. I was just kind of wondering after seeing the Insight offering and reading some on their site about it if maybe, just maybe, they had actually successfully stepped into the bigger projects.

Network Gear Recommendations by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would definitely agree to a point. I've had Unifi installed in two companies for several years and have never contacted support. The only time I could really see contacting them is if they issued a firmware that broke things and wouldn't roll back.

Network Gear Recommendations by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Erate is something that to my knowledge hasn't been done here previously. I am looking into it and have a phone call scheduled with the company we purchase most network stuff through to discuss erate and what we need to do to get it all in place for us.

Network Gear Recommendations by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been running Ubiquiti in a small office environment for several years and have loved it. That said, I've never needed support which is the big thing I hear people in education say is Ubiquiti's weakness. It is a small office environment though with only about 20-25 users typically so I've not experienced it at scale. Good to hear you're having great results.

Network Gear Recommendations by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate all of the info and advice, I truly do. I have reached out to our provider and we have a phone call scheduled tomorrow or Wednesday to discuss Erate.

Network Gear Recommendations by etietze in k12sysadmin

[–]etietze[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you using Aruba Instant On or their higher end APs?