Cisco Meraki

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Cisco Meraki
Company typeDivision
IndustryNetworking, IT
Founded2006; 20 years ago (2006) in Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founders
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people
Lawrence Huang (SVP, GM)
ParentCisco Systems
Websitemeraki.cisco.com

Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides wireless, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2012.[1]

History

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Meraki was founded by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket, along with Hans Robertson.[citation needed] The company was based in part on the MIT Roofnet project, an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[citation needed]

Meraki was funded by Google and Sequoia Capital.[citation needed] The organization started in Mountain View, California, in 2006, before relocating to San Francisco.[citation needed] Meraki employed people who worked on the MIT Roofnet project.[2][3][4]

On November 18, 2012, Cisco Systems announced it would acquire Meraki for an estimated $1.2 billion.[1]

Customer data loss incident

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On August 3, 2017, the engineering team made changes to the North American object storage service; the change caused some deletion of customer data. Cisco stated that the change was due to the application of "an erroneous policy". The data loss mostly affected media files uploaded by customers. Lost data included:

  • Systems Manager – Custom enterprise apps and contact images.
  • Meraki Communications – IVR audio files, hold music, contact images and VM greetings.
  • Wireless Device Dashboard – Custom floor plans, device placement photos, custom logos used for interface branding and reports and custom splash themes.

On August 7 Meraki announced that some data on the cache service could be recovered. On August 9 customers were informed that recovery efforts were still underway but that they "do not expect to be able to recover most assets".[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Products

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Switches (MS)

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Series[11] Deployment type Interfaces Uplinks PoE capabilities Power configuration Stacking capabilities Routing capabilities Models
MS225 Branch & small campus 24 / 48 x 1GbE RJ45 4 x SFP+

Fixed

370W (LP model)

740W (FP model)

Internal Yes, 80G physical + virtual DHCP Relay MS225-24-HW

MS225-24P-HW MS225-48-HW MS225-48LP-HW MS225-48FP-HW

MS450 10G fiber aggregation 12x 40GbE QSFP+ 2 x 100GbE QSFP28 N/A Modular

Redundant PSU optional (sold

separately)

Front-port 160G + virtual Static + Dynamic

DHCP Server + Relay

Warm spare (VRRP)

MS450-12-HW

Security Appliances (MX)

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Table of Meraki MX Security Appliances
Model Wifi Model Interfaces Stateful Firewall Throughput Architecture CPU Speed End of Sale End of support
Z1[12] Yes 5 x GbE 50 Mbit/s
Z3[13] Yes 5 x GbE 100 Mbit/s
Z4[14] Yes WAN: 1 x GbE RJ45

LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45 (1 x PoE)

500 Mbit/s
MX60[15] MX60W 5 x GbE 100 Mbit/s
MX64[16] MX64W WAN: 1 x GbE RJ45

LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45

250 Mbit/s July 26, 2022 July 26, 2027

See also

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References

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