Mr. Perkin and his team managed the deployment in stages -- starting with the MX400 security appliance, followed by switches and wireless access points.
The deployment of Meraki was remarkably easy compared to other vendors. Using the Meraki cloud-based dashboard, Mr. Perkin and his team configured the switches and access points even before they arrived in Vietnam. With only three IT technicians at a distributed campus, the ease of deployment definitely helped the team. “Once they received the shipment, all the team needed to do was push the configuration they had set in the cloud, plug the switch and access point in to the Internet, and it would download the configurations”, explained Mr. Perkin. This allowed the SSIS team to have a speedy deployment process.
Mr. Perkin noted that it was the physical aspect of the deployment that took the most time. “The hardest thing about putting the wireless access points up was the physical installation, such as mounting it to the wall. Once that’s done -- the setup itself is rather easy thanks to the Meraki dashboard,” said Mr. Perkin.
Currently, SSIS has 1 MX400 security appliance, 26 MS switches, and 140+ MR indoor and outdoor access points.
With easy deployment of Meraki, the 3 IT technicians were able to connect the entire distributed campus
