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Meraki Licences Explained

The Meraki brand is valuable to businesses and organizations that rely heavily on virtual and online-based infrastructure to carry out their daily operations, whether internally or client-facing.  Cisco Meraki is a cloud solution that provides users with a centralized...
Cisco Meraki

What Is Cisco Meraki?

If you’ve been in the tech and IT industry long enough, you’ll recognize the brand name Cisco and its logo that resembles the Golden Gate Bridge, with two taller lines symbolizing the towers. So what is Meraki? Meraki is a mesh networking startup that designed its...
How To Replace An Existing Meraki MX Device

How To Replace An Existing Meraki MX Device

Like any electronic device, there comes a time when you may have to replace a Cisco Meraki MX hardware. If the warranty still applies, you may request a replacement unit from Cisco Meraki (you may be asked to return the broken device at the company’s expense within 45...
Wireless Access Points

What Does an Access Point Do?

You know that one department on the second floor always complains about poor WiFi signals? How about that dead spot in your office you avoid at all costs? These are common wireless troubles that many organizations deal with daily. Using wireless access points can be a...
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Cisco Meraki Licensing Benefits

Companies trying to find a new, enterprise-grade networking solution have likely heard of Cisco Meraki. They make industry-leading switches, access points, firewalls, and camera solutions for businesses of every size.  Cisco Meraki has been all about simplifying the...
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Top 3 Benefits of Meraki Switches: Why Your Business Needs Them

As companies grow in size and complexity, so do their networking needs. Switches are foundational devices to an organization’s network, and upgrading them often comes with a significant technological and financial commitment. If your current switches cannot grow with...
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Top 3 Meraki Firewall Benefits: Why You Should Deploy the Meraki MX

Many IT professionals are running up against the same problem—standard host- and port-based security options no longer meet their needs. The narrative is the same whether you’re trying to find a solution for a small business or a global enterprise. The rise of modern...
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Why Cisco Meraki: Top 4 Advantages of Investing in Meraki Products

As businesses grow and scale, their need for advanced solutions increases. While you may be more concerned with scaling your sales department than your IT team, it’s essential to consider how crucial technology and your network are to your organization's daily...
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How to Determine Which Meraki Products You Need

Cisco Meraki embodies ingenuity, security, and functionality. They’re an IT industry leader. This cloud-managed enterprise networking solution uses out-of-band cloud architecture, allowing companies to deploy highly scalable networks. Not to mention, Meraki provides...
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Your Step-By-Step Guide to the Cisco Meraki Setup Process

There’s nothing quite like the day you receive a box of fresh Cisco Meraki devices. Their sleek appearance, clean lines, and glossy surfaces are exciting and a little bit thrilling. Still, the Cisco Meraki setup is notoriously daunting. If you’re not an IT...
Top 3 Benefits of Meraki Switches: Why Your Business Needs Them

Top 3 Benefits of Meraki Switches: Why Your Business Needs Them

As companies grow in size and complexity, so do their networking needs. Switches are foundational devices to an organization’s network, and upgrading them often comes with a significant technological and financial commitment. If your current switches cannot grow with...

How to Get a Free Meraki License for One Year

How to Get a Free Meraki License for One Year

Cisco Meraki brings advanced security features and industry-leading network speeds, all managed from a centralized web-interface called the Meraki Dashboard. This cloud networking solution allows admins to deliver enterprise-grade performance to their network, with...

Why Meraki Management Is the Best Cloud-Based Network Solution

Why Meraki Management Is the Best Cloud-Based Network Solution

As the need for company connectivity grows, so does the need for more devices, cloud environments, bandwidth-heavy applications, etc. Fortunately, cloud network management allows businesses to easily scale and optimize their network.  But not all network management...

Cisco Meraki New Products and Features: Meraki MV32

Cisco Meraki New Products and Features: Meraki MV32

Whether your business needs security cameras to help prevent theft, provide a reliable record of visitors or to more generally help ensure the overall safety of your stores or offices, you need cameras that you can trust. That includes being able to record quality...

Cisco Meraki New Products and Features: WiFi 6

Cisco Meraki New Products and Features: WiFi 6

Having strong WiFi throughout your office is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity. With the increasing number of devices connecting to your network and performance requirements on the rise, cloud computing is taking up significant bandwidth. Employees and customers...

Meraki MX Security Device Defends Against the WannaCry Outbreak

Meraki MX Security Device Defends Against the WannaCry Outbreak

I'm just now hearing about this myself, though the product team at Meraki just released an interesting piece about the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. For those who are unfamiliar, ransomware is a malicious software that takes all the data on your computer and encrypts...

There Are Over Now 1,000,000 Active Meraki Networks Worldwide

There Are Over Now 1,000,000 Active Meraki Networks Worldwide

It's so crazy to think that just 10 years ago when the first Meraki access point shipped from a basement in Mountain View California, that Meraki as an organization would have come this far. When I was an Account Executive at Meraki just a couple years ago, there was...

Meraki Systems Manager is a MUST for Any Digital Classroom

Meraki Systems Manager is a MUST for Any Digital Classroom

This is a subject dear to my heart as I have personally sold Systems Manager into K-12 and Higher Education. With so much responsibility on IT (and the teachers themselves) to make sure that devices or provisioned correctly and safe for students to use, it's crucial...

The 5 Immediate Benefits of Cloud Networking

The 5 Immediate Benefits of Cloud Networking

Perfectly to-the-point blog post from Meraki this morning showing the 5 biggest reasons why cloud networking is taking over enterprise IT. The key to reaping the benefits of cloud managed networking is thinking of how these features could play out in YOUR environment.

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