Last Thursday, Meraki participated in a great event: the Ingram Micro Partner Connections Summit in Denver, Colorado. The most remarkable observation that could be made was the clear presence of a sense of optimism throughout the conference after a year of apprehension.   We spoke to a good portion of the 225 resellers at the event, [...]

The Meraki MR58 is one of the industry’s first 802.11n outdoor access points and also one of the only economical multi-radio solutions.   It is a unique product, and we get a lot of questions from customers about how best to deploy it to take full advantage of its capabilities.  With 3 high speed 802.11n MIMO [...]

On Thursday, September 17, Meraki hosted a very successful Enterprise Customer Summit (ECS) at our headquarters in San Francisco.  The goal of ECS is to get direct, unfiltered feedback on our products from some of our key customers.  While these customers tend to be our biggest advocates, they are also our harshest critics!  We began [...]

Administrators can now identify which operating system their wireless clients are running without requiring any client software. This information can be useful when trying to debug a network or get a sense of what kind of clients are using a network. Meraki APs identify clients using a technique called OS fingerprinting. Each OS, and sometimes [...]

One of the main advantages of using multi-band access points like the MR14 or MR58 is that they can increase the total bandwidth available for clients on the network (e.g., 20MHz on 2.4 GHz and 40 MHz on 5 GHz). However, some devices that are 5 GHz capable (i.e. 802.11a/n clients) will connect with a [...]

Many Meraki users rely on the Cloud Controller for various aspects of the user authentication process. For example, some networks use 802.1x (WPA-Enterprise) to authenticate against a hosted user database. Others rely on Meraki to host a splash page that must be viewed before login. There may be times when a network cannot communicate with [...]