What did you wish for this holiday season? Perhaps some shiny new Meraki WLAN features such as PCI reports, WIPS enhancements, group policies by device type, or Teleworker VPN split tunnels? If so, you’re in luck because our engineering elves have been hard at work. There’s something for everyone including retail, enterprise, education, and remote workers. Even [...]

Retailers rely on us to provide a wireless solution that helps them meet PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) compliance requirements, and the feedback on some of our security features such as two-factor authentication has been very positive. Meraki has passed a level 1 PCI DSS v2 audit and earned the corresponding Report [...]

As showed in a previous blog post, site to site connectivity can be greatly simplified using the MX router’s built-in, self-configuring VPN. The MX can also significantly lower branch connectivity costs and make sure your branch prioritizes bandwidth for critical applications, thus virtualizing the WAN into a high performance service while reducing cost at the [...]

Customers who have deployed Meraki MX cloud-managed routers have really benefited from its ability to centrally manage secure multi-site networks. Using built-in site-to-site VPN capability and the link aggregation and failover of the MX70, secure multi-site networks can be deployed while reducing configuration complexity and lowering branch connectivity costs. This is best illustrated through a [...]

Security concerns are so often top of mind for networking and cloud services in general. We’ve built our cloud-based networks with a focus on security since the beginning, and recently Gartner rated Meraki as “Promising” in the 2011 MarketScope for Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems: This MarketScope analyzes the performance of vendors that have focused [...]

We’re incredibly excited to be sponsoring the Monterey Jazz Festival, which starts this weekend. Meraki will be providing free WiFi to thousands of jazz fans, using our brand-new MR66 outdoor 802.11n APs. We wanted to celebrate the combining of two of our passions, music and wireless, with a fun contest and a Jambox for a lucky [...]