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Replacing a Network -- Advice on Implementation (Meraki)

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I need some advice on replacing an entire office network, 1 firewall, 2 switches and 2 AP's. We have about 60 users. We will be buying Meraki equipment. 1 MX80, 2 MS42's and 2 MR16's.

My idea is to do the implementation over a weekend. Start on a Saturday morning, end on a Sunday. It's not a lot to replace either. We need to do a little bit of additional work because we need to un-daisychain the computers from the phones. Gives you 2 weekend days to get everything situated. I know for a fact that large universities (including my alma mater, the University at Albany) have done these types of things with more hardware in less time.

My boss on the other hand believes that we should run the networks in parallel and add people to the new equipment in groups. I don't see the necessity in this. In fact, it makes things more complicated because of network and share drive access. I think he's worried the equipment isn't going to work or be configured right. He says I'm too optimistic about the situation. My case is that I can't find a bad experience that someone's had with Meraki and I would definitely test the hardware first with a couple computers and verify that all is well before deploying it.

We have 2 WAN connections. A breeze to setup on Meraki. A site-to-site VPN with our datacenter, again another breeze to setup with Meraki. It can definitely be done in a weekend, especially with Meraki. I can even configure everything in the dashboard before the equipment even arrives and then it's plug and play.

I need some advice from people who have done these types of installs/replacements before. I'm a young IT professional who has only done this for a small 10 person office before. I have worked in a larger corporation but we never did a complete network overhaul, just replaced piece by piece.


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