Just set up a Meraki AP for one of my clients and it's the ----!

http://meraki.com/

 

Looks gross. You have to have an internet connection and have it speak to their servers based on what I was reading on their site....Ya no thanks. How about you let me host my own cloud network management server with your software so that my network is more secure and private.

Oh wait, ever other major network infrastructure company already provides this sort of solution. FAIL

Looks like it probably costs less than CISCO and the other big boys because no one has ever heard of it, but this can't be ran without exposing your entire infrastructure to the internet. Plus you have to trust that their storage is secure enough to never get hacked and someone steal everything having to do with your network, including IPs, MACs, ------- location data, etc... And we know how secure major companies keep our data (cough... not very.... cough)

If I was running a flower shop or something maybe. MAYBE, I would host my VOIP network on it. As long as it is completely separate from my LAN with servers, workstations. Otherwise no thanks, opens me up to all kinds of corp espionage and other bad stuff.

 

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