FAQs

Cisco offers cloud-managed Meraki access points (MR), switches (MS), and security appliances (MX). Cisco Meraki products come out of the box with centralized cloud management, layer 7 device and application visibility, real time web-based diagnostics, monitoring, reporting, and much, much more. Cisco Meraki deploys quickly and easily, without training or proprietary command line interfaces.

Key Features:

• Easy to set up: all drop-down menus in an easy to use interface with enterprise functionality.
• Easy to access: configure and monitor the network from anywhere you can access your browser.
• Easy to use: manage entire network from a single dashboard.
• Easy to scale: ship Meraki hardware anywhere and add it to your network just by entering the serial number into the dashboard.
• Fully protected: provided with secure (PCI and HIPAA-compliant) cloud infrastructure.
• Suits all organizational sizes – scales from small sites to million-user deployments.

No. Cisco Meraki uses an out of band management architecture, meaning that only management data flows through the Meraki cloud infrastructure. No user traffic passes through Meraki's datacenters, and your data stays on your network.

The local area network (LAN) will stay up and running and you will still be able to access shared printers, files, etc. Configuration changes will just be queued until connection is restored.

Meraki provides firmware updates via seamless, over-the-web upgrades. Each Quarter, Cisco Meraki releases updates that contain new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements. Firmware upgrades are delivered securely over the web, which you can reschedule or cancel at any time.

Cloud based infrastructure provides cost advantages in small, mid-sized and large networks, and the Cisco Meraki cloud infrastructure scales seamlessly from small branches to large campus environments and distributed networks. Besides, The Cisco Meraki cloud architecture can be easily used by IT generalists without training.

For Many reasons:

• First, customers can have all the benefits of a mesh network without the cost of purchasing a controller for environments with just a few access points.
• Second, with the trending of both BYOD (bring your own device) and faster devices, Cisco Meraki meets the changing demands that are causing issues on consumer grade networks.
• Third, not only does Meraki solution allow you to monitor and limit the bandwidth on applications and devices, but the ability for Meraki to add features to the dashboard with the changing market gives customers the peace of mind that they are “future-proofing” their investment.