Alternatives to Meraki? I work for a small college. We normally lease our networking equipment so that we don't have a HUGE budget year the really taxes our finances. We're currently using Meraki for everything; about 35-40 switches and a firewall, and about 30 APs. We had our meeting with Cisco about renewals and replacements and the total cost of a 1:1 replacement came back at like a good $700,000+. Which.... yeah. No one's happy about. So we're exploring some alternatives. Ubiquiti is one of the main ones; we don't have any really complex networking setups, just basically connect everything together, prioritize our IP Phones, and that's about all. And my boss is of the opinion even if a Ubiquiti switch goes down and support isn't great, it's cheap enough to just buy another or have one or two on hand to just slot in and be done with it. His idea is really to keep the Meraki Firewall for it's features and then just Ubiquiti switches as the backbone. Which isn't too bad of an idea in my opinion.…