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Cisco’s Meraki Offering is Cheaper BUT Less Intelligent

• By default, load balancing of traffic on the Meraki is

disabled by default

• When load balancing is enabled, load distribution is

not bi-directional but only uses download speeds

• Traffic is divvied out on a per connection basis based

upon a ratio of link bandwidths, not latency/loss/jitter

• Meraki looks at all connections as being equal, so a

slower link can get saturated by two high bandwidth

connections

• Meraki does not recommend using WAN links with

different bandwidths

• Uses DNS, ICMP and ARP on the uplink to determine

the availability the WAN links – failover times will be

up to 5 minutes

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