Meraki’s resilient out-of-band cloud management
We recently had a great discussion with the networking gurus from wireless field day about our cloud managed architecture, and how it works under the covers. There was a lot of interest in our out-of-band cloud management: which parts of the network require connectivity to Meraki’s cloud, how customer networks are affected during a WAN failure, [...]

It’s Almost Time for Wireless Field Day 2
We’re really excited to take part in this year’s Wireless Field Day by hosting a session at Meraki’s San Francisco headquarters on Thursday, January 26 at 4PM Pacific Time. We’re looking forward to a lively and interactive session with some of the thought leaders of the wireless networking industry. Most importantly, we can’t wait to [...]

Introducing 100% Cloud Managed Switching & Security
Less than three weeks into the new year, we’re incredibly excited to kick off 2012 with two major new product introductions: Meraki MS Cloud Managed Switches Meraki MX Cloud Managed Security Appliances Together with our award-winning cloud managed wireless LAN, these products enable enterprises to deploy 100% cloud managed networks, adding visibility and control while [...]

A Look at Mobile Devices in the Workplace
Is your organization seeing a dramatic increase in the number of iPads and mobile devices being brought to the office?  That’s what happened at Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister LLP.  Brian Clayton, the Director of Information Systems, had to respond – and in his article “More WiFi, Less Hardware,” featured in the newest issue of Peer [...]

Cloud Managed WiFi — on a Massive Scale
Alongside Accor North America (ANA), we’re excited to announce the completion of a nationwide WiFi deployment across all of ANA’s Motel 6 and Studio 6 properties. With nearly 10,000 access points spanning 620 properties and covering over 70,000 rooms, the deployment represents one of the world’s largest WiFi installations and is the largest cloud managed [...]

Is Your WLAN PCI Compliant? Check.
PCI DSS 2.0 Compliance Reports are now available on Enterprise dashboards! You can check your network settings such as firewall rules and password policies against PCI WLAN requirements, and receive a summary report that can be archived or printed out. If something’s out of compliance, the report provides guidance on how to fix things. Centrally [...]

Granting Wireless Wishes this Holiday Season
What did you wish for this holiday season? Perhaps some shiny new Meraki WLAN features such as PCI reports, WIPS enhancements, group policies by device type, or Teleworker VPN split tunnels? If so, you’re in luck because our engineering elves have been hard at work. There’s something for everyone including retail, enterprise, education, and remote workers. Even [...]

Meraki: Level 1 PCI DSS Certified
Retailers rely on us to provide a wireless solution that helps them meet PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) compliance requirements, and the feedback on some of our security features such as two-factor authentication has been very positive. Meraki has passed a level 1 PCI DSS v2 audit and earned the corresponding Report [...]

Real Cost Savings Through WAN Virtualization
As showed in a previous blog post, site to site connectivity can be greatly simplified using the MX router’s built-in, self-configuring VPN. The MX can also significantly lower branch connectivity costs and make sure your branch prioritizes bandwidth for critical applications, thus virtualizing the WAN into a high performance service while reducing cost at the [...]

A Simple, Secure Way to Connect Your Branches
Customers who have deployed Meraki MX cloud-managed routers have really benefited from its ability to centrally manage secure multi-site networks. Using built-in site-to-site VPN capability and the link aggregation and failover of the MX70, secure multi-site networks can be deployed while reducing configuration complexity and lowering branch connectivity costs. This is best illustrated through a [...]