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Free Meraki MX64 for IT Professionals (Worth around $1900)

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Free Meraki MX64 for IT Professionals (Worth around $1900)
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airzone on 29/11/2017 - 17:13 meraki.cisco.com (643 clicks)
Last edited 29/11/2017 - 18:46 by 1 other user

Meraki are doing another webinar where selected IT professionals will be able to sacrifice an hour of their time for a shiny new firewall. It comes with a 3 year license.

Webinar is on Wed 13 Dec @ 12pm Sydney time.

To be eligible, you will need to meet the following:
- Use a company email address, and a company shipping address
- Company and yourself may not have claimed a free MX before (n.b. having a free Meraki AP doesn't count)
- Be an IT professional
- Talk to the sales guy.

You can look at the restrictions here: http://meraki.cisco.com/freemx

They typically come up in an Aussie timezone every month or so.

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  • tromboc on 29/11/2017 - 17:36
    +1

    I don't think anything can really be "worth around $1900" if it's regularly given away each month for "free" as you say.

    • airzone on 29/11/2017 - 17:38
      +9

      It's bait on a hook. I've spent about $80k on their gear.

      • tromboc on 29/11/2017 - 17:40

        I can't work out if you're saying that positively or otherwise.

        • airzone on 29/11/2017 - 17:44

          Lol. I like their gear. It has it's faults, and a truly massive catch (i.e. the licensing). But compared to similar Cisco gear, with a smartnet contract for a similar term, I found the price to be comparable and it's so quick and easy to do 95% of what you need to do.. But that 5% is a real headache (and all network gear that I have used has their frustrating bits)..

      • magic8ballgag on 29/11/2017 - 18:27

        Personally or professionally?

    • camshandez on 29/11/2017 - 17:43
      +1

      We have similar at my work from Dell, given free $6000 computers, in hope we'll upgrade our fleet to better PC's to match performance of the $6000 seed PC. Plant a seed and hope it grows into more for them.

      • khued on 29/11/2017 - 17:51
        +4

        So how does my company get on Dell's radar to get free $6K computer?

        • coxymla on 29/11/2017 - 18:47
          +6

          Buy a million bucks of PCs from HP or Lenobo every year.

        • khued on 30/11/2017 - 14:23

          @camshandez @coxymla: psst, I have some Dell PCs worth billions but will sell at millions. Ordered wrong model. My loss, your gain. Would you be interested?

  • sanmigueelbeer on 29/11/2017 - 17:42

    The equipment they hand out for free has a 1-year license. When that year is up the gear stops working.

    • airzone on 29/11/2017 - 17:44
      +4

      3 yr

      • eDust on 29/11/2017 - 21:41

        Any idea if the whole device stops working, or just certain premium features?

        • fredk1000 on 29/11/2017 - 22:54
          +2

          Device stops working.

  • vociferate on 29/11/2017 - 17:44

    Seems the next webinar is Jan 31

    https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars/signup/2773/introduction-t…

  • baaz on 29/11/2017 - 18:05
    +1

    I had(still having) bad experience with the similar deal 2 years back. Ever since I registered myself with company email address, not only I haven't received the said device, I started getting junk emails to office email address.. the sender is always different so I can't even block it.

    • P3aker on 29/11/2017 - 18:48
      +1

      I might create myself a new account at work, [email protected]

      Helpfully that works.

      • MorriJ on 29/11/2017 - 19:47
        +1

        There was a mob doing wifi access points for free on a similar deal. The guy running the sessions would claim people updated their address after the session finished, hence never receiving them.

        I complained to their senior management, trainer was let go as he was sending them to parcel lockers all over australia and having friends pick them up.

        Moral of the story: If you are going to be dodgy, dont use your real name (was using his name for the addresses).

    • mangolassi on 29/11/2017 - 20:10

      Why don't you blacklist their domain?

      • baaz on 29/11/2017 - 20:36

        The emails are from different domains too. Most of them are related to corporate trainings, seminars etc.
        I receive at least 3-4 emails a week.

        • mangolassi on 29/11/2017 - 21:06

          If you are not able to unsubscribe or they don't unsubscribe you after making the request you should report it to ACMA

    • magic8ballgag on 30/11/2017 - 08:58

      I experienced the same, signed up to one of their webinars last year and have been getting emails regarding training that I never subscribed to ever since.

  • wiipantz on 30/11/2017 - 16:01

    Basic question. What stops one from on selling the hardware after receiving it?

    • twobit on 30/11/2017 - 21:32

      It and the license are pre-linked to your email. Which you can change.

      Basically not much but they do tend to disable the systems from what I have heard/read online.

      I use the gear at a NFP, work and my home office. Renewal is pretty high so good for 3years then move along.

      Their Wireless and Switch is also normally free too.

    • airzone on 01/12/2017 - 08:11

      I buy these for work. I would never buy one (or any other production gear) from an unofficial channel.

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