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CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] vs Meraki Dashboard comparison

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CA Application Delivery Ana...
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
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Meraki Dashboard
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
86
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reviewer1237194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved
My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.
Kieran Wallace - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineering Manager at Nutrien Ag Solutions Australia
Centralized management has transformed global branch operations but templates and APIs still need work
I am disappointed that Meraki Sensors feature is leaving Meraki Dashboard because we use Meraki Sensors heavily across our Australian retail branches for a number of different use cases, and Meraki has discontinued the MT sensor product range, which will be getting sunset at some point. We are disappointed about that. I do not know yet if they are replacing it with something else, but I believe it may be going out to third-party manufacturers to offer that as a service that integrates. If I could improve the product in any way, I want to add that there are a number of functions in Meraki Dashboard that you can only do from the dashboard that are not available to us in the API. My role focuses heavily on automation, and that is a real pain point for us as new features come out. We really want to push Meraki to have API parity with every aspect of Meraki Dashboard. Configuration templates influence policy consistency across my distributed branches and are a big pain point for us with local site exceptions. If something needs to change for a local site requirement, then we end up having to break that site out of the template and manage it separately. The number of sites that we have had to do that for in the last couple of years has increased, which dramatically increases the management overhead for those broken-out networks, and it is slowly eroding the value that we get from templates. That is why we are looking to transition to more Terraform automation-driven configuration management and get rid of templates. I rate Meraki Dashboard a seven and not higher because templates cause us a lot of grief, and the lack of API parity is a real challenge for us. We would really appreciate seeing the API rate limit increased as well.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
"Meraki Dashboard's AI agent has helped my team investigate or resolve issues faster, as previously when we identified an issue, it used to take us time to go with that IP and look at the switchboard, but now we can provide that IP to the AI, and it will tell us which switch it is plugged into, which port, and what VLAN it is."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"This product saves me time and I am very happy using it."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"It can analyze the traffic that it is picking up from what may be a rogue access point, and it is able to identify those and send relevant notifications."
"When we went to Meraki Dashboard, we were so happy we were jumping up and down."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
 

Cons

"The user interface needs improvement."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
"Upgrades can be quite complex."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"My experience with Cisco support has been inconsistent and depends on which tech I reach."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"There is a need for price reductions in developing countries, as the cost of Meraki is quite high."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
"The accuracy and reliability of Meraki Dashboard's AI capabilities are not fantastic. The AI repeatedly does not do what I ask it to do; I have to be really specific."
"Regarding Meraki Dashboard, I would suggest improvements to Cisco ISE integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Typically, the license model is for one, three, and five years. They can just be a bit more flexible around it and look into providing an option for 24 months."
"The Meraki Dashboard has more competitive pricing."
"The licensing fees are $180 USD, per AP, for three years."
"Licensing is around under 1000 pounds. The licensing is either one year, three years, five years or ten years and during the licensing, we can choose to renew it per year or per every three years. We've got a license for three years. It's about 160 or about 200 pounds each."
"Licensing for Meraki Dashboard is paid every year, and it's on a per-device model that costs roughly $300 to $400 per device, but that comes with full support and troubleshooting, etc. Compared to similar products, Meraki Dashboard is quite high-end, but the costs you pay are all-in."
"The pricing for a small setup is only a few hundred dollars a year. The fee is subscription-based."
"It is said to be expensive."
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Meraki Dashboard?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Meraki Dashboard was pretty straightforward just because we have Cisco devices already in the organization. We didn't face any such pri...
What needs improvement with Meraki Dashboard?
I don't see any such requirement of improvement for Meraki Dashboard, but since artificial intelligence is in the market, maybe with some kind of summary or some kind of notification with integ...
What is your primary use case for Meraki Dashboard?
Our main use case for Meraki Dashboard is to monitor the network environment. We monitor our local data center and network devices using the dashboard, and when there is a certain issue, Meraki Das...
 

Also Known As

CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent
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