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.
"The management is cloud-based so you do not have to be on-premises to work with it."
"It is easy to configure and provides complete visibility of the graphic end point."
"The initial setup is simple."
"With Meraki, there is the advantage that you have dashboard access via the internet and you can work on it from anywhere."
"The dashboard and the interface, in general, are good features."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the ease of stacking. The configuration on the MS Switches is very good, as well as its ability to assign the LANs."
"Its cloud feature and cloud management are great. They are the most valuable aspects."
"I like the portal, it's really interesting."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is a stable solution."
"Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its reliability."
"Great information on the graphical interface."
"I like the control one has with this 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."
"It offers very good control."
"The two most valuable features are the remote access user and the side-to-side connection."
"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."
"They tend to have some weird issues with fiber uplinks."
"Doesn't enable a local configuration without internet access."
"This product depends on a cloud connection in order to function. If you have an unstable internet connection or other connectivity issues the product will not function as expected."
"The MS Switches are incapable of doing trunking."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The reporting could be improved and could be more granular."
"The VPN technology in Ubiquiti products is really difficult for beginners who do not have the right skills."
"We have been having issues with non-homogeneity."
"Ubiquiti UniFi Switches’s pricing could be less expensive."
"It would be helpful to have better visibility into exactly what is going on in the network."
"It's difficult to manage the WiFi on the edge switches in the same console."
"In terms of improvement, sometimes we have bugs."
"New products don't integrate well with their management platform. Sometimes you have to go directly to the box or the switch to do the management."
"I would like to see the pricing improved."
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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