Cisco acquired Meraki at the end of 2012. I have heard a lot about Meraki and I recently tried to dig deep into what they do. This blog is a result of that.
What does Meraki do?
Meraki does cloud managed access devices for the edge market. Their primary focus is small/medium enterprises. Meraki now has Wireless access points, access switches, security devices. In addition to this, Meraki also provides a mobile management application to remotely monitor and manage mobile devices. All Meraki’s devices have a management connectivity to their backend data center and the devices can be managed remotely. Following picture from Meraki shows the high level data plane/management plane model for all their devices. There is a management connectivity from each device to the backend data center and all centralized management is done from there. Even if the management connectivity is lost, data plane does not get affected.
What are Meraki’s differentiators?
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