"If you choose not to renew, your Meraki systems will cease to provide network access on February 28, 2015."
I find that interesting as it is my understanding (confirmed by Meraki documents the last I knew) the Meraki Cloud's functionality is carried out on the control domain & does not have any involvement in packet forwarding(my limited testing with Meraki equipment confirmed this). I knew that access to change configuration might disappear but, I was not aware that the data plane could be interrupted as well. That is a excellent item for me to investigate further as I have investigated Meraki as a solution in the past. On a side note, those of you in this situation described below-you may want to take a peek at this: https://meraki.cisco.com/support/#policies:gpl . Does not provide an "enterprise" solution but never the less may get you out of a jam if needed until replacement equipment can be purchased etc. Mitchell T. Lewis mle...@techcompute.net <mailto:mle...@itgeekdom.net> LinkedIn Profile:www.linkedin.com/in/mlewisitg <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlewisitg> Mobile: (203)816-0371 A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. ~Joseph Weizenbaum On 02/01/2015 08:51 PM, Eric C. Miller wrote: > That's it. Step 1, buy the equipment at full price. Step 2, pay for the cloud > management license, yearly. Step 3, no extended warranty option, so pay full > price if equipment from step one fails. > > We just dumped our meraki deployment because of it: > > ---- > >> Dear Helpdesk, >> Thank you for being a valued Meraki customer. Our records show that your >> Meraki Cloud license has expired. >> >> If you wish to continue using your Meraki networks, you must renew your >> license immediately. If you choose not to renew, your Meraki systems will >> cease to provide network access on February 28, 2015. If you have recently >> made a Meraki purchase, please add your >license key to your Dashboard >> account. > ---- > > > > > Eric Miller, CCNP > Network Engineering Consultant > (407) 257-5115 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:55 AM > To: NANOG > Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office > > I try to avoid anything that Cisco has touched. > > Also not a fan of their stop paying our recurring fee and the device becomes > a brick policy. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dennis Bohn" <b...@adelphi.edu> > To: "Eric C. Miller" <e...@ericheather.com> > Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 8:41:52 AM > Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office > > We are substantially larger and use Aruba, but I am wondering why no one has > mentioned Meraki (now cisco-meraki). We tried one of their give-away aps and > it seemed fine, with the 'cloud management.' I am not advocating Meraki, just > curious. > best, > > > Dennis Bohn > Manager of Network and Systems > Adelphi University > b...@adelphi.edu > 5168773327 > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Eric C. Miller <e...@ericheather.com> > wrote: > >> +1 Xirrus, especially for the multi radio arrays. Crowded common areas >> benefit from sector antennas attached to individual radios. Also, >> there XMS server is really useful for managing a large cluster. >> Ubiquiti UniFi is good for smaller installations, but I wouldn't trust >> them for enterprise level reliability. >> >> >> >> Eric Miller, CCNP >> Network Engineering Consultant >> (407) 257-5115 >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lyon >> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:17 AM >> To: Manuel Marín >> Cc: NANOG >> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office >> >> Check out Xirrus >> On Jan 28, 2015 9:08 PM, "Manuel Marín" <m...@transtelco.net> wrote: >> >>> Dear nanog community >>> >>> I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs >>> that you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend >>> recommended me Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share >>> your experience with Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience >>> with ubiquity for this type of requirement was not that good. >>> >>> Thank you and have a great day >>>