We performed a comparison between Meraki MS Switches and Ubiquiti Unifi Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ubiquiti UniFi Switches finish slightly ahead of Meraki MS Switches in this comparison. Ubiquiti provides great flexibility with configurations and has excellent throughput. Some Meraki MS Switches users feel that traffic reporting needs to improve and that the switches can be a bit buggy.
"Meraki MS Switches have a very user-friendly dashboard and the policies are straightforward for sending them to the devices and blocking sites."
"The dashboard and the interface, in general, are good features."
"The solution has been very stable so far."
"Meraki MS Switches are amazing. Whoever built it is a genius. I like that it's a plug-and-play solution."
"The technical support is very good. They offer some of the best support on the market."
"These switches are not expensive and their configuration is very easy. You can provision them on the dashboard, then you just connect them to everything."
"Setting up a switch can be performed prior to having your hands on the device. Once you purchase a Meraki switch you will get an email from Meraki with a code to add to your dashboard and then you can start setting up your switch so when it arrives it will download its configuration and be all setup."
"You can connect from the dashboard itself. It is very easy to operate."
"I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high."
"The central management is provided by the UniFi management system. You can manage everything from a single interface. The SDN mode that the entire unified system uses is a software-defined network format."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is the graphic user interface for monitoring, where you can see the status of the device in real-time. I use those features across the campus. I use the APs as my beacons to tell me whether the area of the school of the network is down or not. Those will be the first to alert me that there is a problem with the network or a device. They provide me with more than only monitoring themselves, I use them in order to monitor all the devices."
"These switches are very simple to use and the GUI is very nice."
"The two most valuable features are the remote access user and the side-to-side connection."
"The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is that once you buy them, you own them."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its reliability."
"The licensing model needs to be improved."
"The MS Switches are incapable of doing trunking."
"It might be perceived as more of a niche product, partly due to its name, as it's still not entirely recognized by the market."
"This solution is too simple for some cases, and there should be more configuration options."
"The solution needs to improve its ability to back up the auto-configuration."
"The switch capacity needs to be improved."
"Some people would have some reservations about the yearly subscription. Maybe they could offer an option of having a one-off or perpetual license to let people test it and see how it goes."
"At times, we didn't know whether the switch was operating or not so we have to take the console and we have to do some troubleshooting."
"It's difficult to manage the WiFi on the edge switches in the same console."
"I had some initial problems with the configuration that necessitated contacting technical support."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches need to add DNS lookup features."
"There is currently an issue with supply of switches which needs to be sorted out."
"They can improve the visibility of networks to match Meraki switches, which have good visibility tools to go through the network. In a Meraki device, you get a clear picture when using the bug interface. You can also see its neighbors and have a clear picture of all connected devices. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches do not have such features that Meraki switches provide."
"The VPN technology in Ubiquiti products is really difficult for beginners who do not have the right skills."
"The solution needs to improve its documentation because it is quite poor."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches’s pricing could be less expensive."
Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is ranked 3rd in Ethernet Switches with 46 reviews. Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4, while Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches writes "Offers a good controller, seamless design and easy to deploy ". Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, NETGEAR Switches and Arista Networks Platform, whereas Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Aruba Switches, MikroTik Routers and Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches. See our Meraki MS Switches vs. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches report.
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