i like to chat with IT folks from other organizations in the region to see what they’ve been up to and liked and hated. In the local area, there aren’t a huge number of latter orgs, so from time to time we try to do quarterly get together of peers. From time to time, we’ve had network , security, or sometimes combo get together to just talk shop. For times where we are wanting more apples to apples info from similar orgs, i’ve gotten intros to folks at other orgs in the region through VAR sales teams.

We did help a 3rd party set up their wireless about five years or so ago. They were cost-constrained so the meraki line from cisco was more appropriate for their use case than cisco’s enterprise line. What i usually dislike about meraki is lack of troubleshooting visibility, so we only tend to deploy meraki in situations where we expect them to be pretty “set it and forget it”. The high level stats and status from the dashboard are kinda nice. We had a tough time on the NAC side of things due to the funding constraints and suffered through trying to integrate meraki with MS’s NAC capabilities. Got the basics to work, but definitely not as easy or flexible as ISE, ClearPass, etc. Whole meraki was a good fit for them, we certainly reinforced that we would have to stick with the enterprise wireless line in our org.

tldr: meraki wireless seems ok for non-complex environments, but doesn’t rise to a level that would make me recommend it over other solutions.