re: Corporate IT Survey

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No way, unless you are a Juniper partner or you got refurbed switches. Juniper is just as expensive as Cisco until you are a partner. Retail values:

EX2200-48P-4G
$4,495.00

EX2200-24P-4G
$2,595.00

EX2200-C-12P-2G
$1,895.00

I love Junos, so I'm glad the company I work for is a Juniper partner and we're rolling more and more with Juniper.

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All brand new. I got them from CDW at the time. Newegg even sells EX2200-24P switches for under $1000 now.

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Yea, we're not buying in any kind of serious volume.

I agree that Junos is sweet, especially for someone coming from a dev background.

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- firewall?
- switching?
- servers?
- storage?
- wifi?

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SonicWall
Cisco
Dell
Compellent (ie: Dell)
Linksys in our meeting rooms here in the office building (pw-protected as it's only for business meetings) & Tropos for our outdoor/rec areas.

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and Meraki seems to be the shiz.

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I've never setup Meraki, so I can't really say much, but I'll tell you this.

I had a site with Unifis, and had no problems. The company's corporate demanded that they switch to a Meraki system so that they could track how long customers were on the lots. They sent their own people and put APs all over the place.

Since then, the employees complain to me every time they see me that their wireless connections drop all the time, especially trying to stream audio.

Maybe that's by design, or maybe they put up too many APs and they're interfering with each other. I don't know, but that's been my only experience with Merakis.

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Palo Alto yes

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I've said it already, but I can't reiterate enough how awesome of a product a PAN firewall is. Being able to see how many and what type of attacks are attempted on your firewall and blocked is awesome.

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Maybe that's by design, or maybe they put up too many APs and they're interfering with each other. I don't know, but that's been my only experience with Merakis.

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I think you can kill certain types of Apps/traffic on meraki.

I haven't heard that from anybody that went that route either. I don't think saturation should be an issue. They're pretty smart at using clean air technology and load balancing connected clients.

I'd ask them to come back and maybe do a scoping, because that's not consistent with what my customers tell me (I don't sell wireless) and I haven't met anybody unhappy with it.

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