Their Meraki dashboard is so easy to use. I can manage all our branch offices from my phone while I’m grabbing coffee. It makes being a 'team of one' IT person actually possible.

The setup can be incredibly complex. If you aren't 'Cisco certified,' you're going to have a hard time getting the advanced security features running correctly. It’s not really a 'plug-and-play' brand.

We use Cisco for our office network and it’s basically bulletproof. We haven't had a major outage in years. It’s definitely more expensive than the consumer stuff, but for a business, you can't beat that level of uptime.

The technical support is top-tier. Whenever we have a weird configuration issue, their engineers are on it immediately. You're not just buying a router; you're buying a global support network.

Networking standard. Expensive.