[CONTEST CLOSED] Happy New Year! What are your Networking Resolutions?

[AmyReyes]

🎆🎩🍾✨ Happy New Year!! ✨🍾🎩🎆

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who shared their goals for the new year with us! Congratulations to our 3 randomly selected winners: @Pond @Brian212 and @Viewmax!!! 🎉

It’s 2025, which means it’s time for our annual resolutions contest!

In last year’s Network Resolutions contest, the community resolved (among many things) to become ECMS certified, renew CCNA or CCIE certifications, and explore blockchain's potential! You can tell the spirit of continuous learning is thriving in the Meraki Community.

Tell us, how did those 2024 resolutions go? What do you resolve to do in 2025? You never know… some of our members here may have some great advice for you to help achieve your goals.

By sharing your resolutions here, you may just inspire some fellow networking enthusiasts. And of course, there is the chance to receive some fun Meraki swag!

How to enter

Tell us your Network Resolutions in a comment on this blog post before 10:59am ET on Thursday, January 16th.

How to win

Once submissions close at 10:59am EST on January 16th, we select three entries at random to win a pair of Cisco Meraki blue light glasses.

Good Luck!

The Fine Print

• Limit one entry per community member
• Submission period: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 at 11am EST through Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 10:59am EST
• Complete rules and eligibility can be found here.
  

[Jayman-SCI]

Get our budget approved to replace a number of our devices, replace the approved devices, find the time to finish tweaking our wireless settings to improve performance and reliability, and if workload permits this year to get my certification finally.

[RR-THE-IT-GUY]

Lot's of Meraki deployments and use of built in troubleshooting for remote network management, came in handy today to diagnose an intermittent line fault

[Chris345]

My goal this year is to go to another Cisco Live this year, now that I know most of the things are there for. This time I'd like to take a CCNP test while there, which I forwent last year.

[AMyers2025]

My goal is refamiliarize myself with the Meraki product line (additional basic sales training) and continue to grow our business clients with these solutions!

[GH2023]

this 2025 I hope I can implement some of these projects or at least study more about them

Network Automation with AI and ML

Use tools like Cisco DNA Center, Ansible, or SolarWinds for network automation.

Upgrade to Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)

Evaluate current wireless infrastructure and replace outdated access points.

Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA)

Implement identity-based authentication for every user and device.

[mario.salverredy]

I think the main one will be to finally start the course to get a CCNP certification and deepen my knowledge in Meraki management through APIs, I think it is a great opportunity to develop a better professional profile. Kudos for all!!!

[jochoi]

In 2024, I successfully installed over 200 Meraki devices across multiple sites. Moving forward, I anticipate deploying more than 100 additional units and managing a substantial number of devices in the network.

[HPMsys]

Finish my network restructuring project with zero downtime!

[HarounSlimani1]

My goal in 2025 is to survive as one of the community members highlighted ! Than get my CCNA and ECMS.

[liam-close]

Automate Meraki firmware upgrades with a Service Now change management workflow

[Dylan.Statzer]

My 2025 resolution is to finally take and pass my 350-801 CLCOR exam 😀

[DanD1]

We hope to finish our Secure Connect deployment between our Azure environment and our 3 offices here in the next couple of weeks. We are also planning a network upgrade for our main office, which would eliminate 3 Catalyst 6500s and replace them with 3 Meraki MX stacks and a bunch of MRs to go full wireless throughout.

[oscar.campusmana]

Hi everyone!! In 2024 I became a Cisco partner again, participated in several trainings especially BlackBelt and I hope this 2025 to finally take my CCNA exam. Let's go for much more!

[jclm1rt]

¡Feliz Año Nuevo, comunidad Meraki! 🎉Mi resolución para 2025 es integrar inteligencia artificial en la gestión de redes bancarias, automatizando la detección de anomalías y optimizando el rendimiento en tiempo real. 🤖🌐 La IA es el futuro, y estoy emocionado por explorar todo su potencial. 🚀¡Listo para aprender y compartir ideas con ustedes este año! 😊

[eyoung]

Not to make the news because of a security incident.