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.
History Meraki was founded by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket, along with Hans Robertson. 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.
Meraki was funded by Google and Sequoia Capital. The organization started in Mountain View, California, in 2006, before relocating to San Francisco. Meraki employed people who worked on the MIT Roofnet project.
On November 18, 2012, Cisco Systems announced it would acquire Meraki for an estimated $1.2 billion.
Customer data loss incident 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".
Products Switches (MS) +SeriesDeployment typeInterfacesUplinksPoE capabilitiesPower configurationStacking capabilitiesRouting capabilitiesModelsMS225Branch & small campus 24 / 48 x 1GbE RJ454 x SFP+ Fixed370W (LP model) 740W (FP model)InternalYes, 80G physical + virtual DHCP RelayMS225-24-HW MS225-24P-HW MS225-48-HW MS225-48LP-HW MS225-48FP-HWMS45010G fiber aggregation12x 40GbE QSFP+2 x 100GbE QSFP28N/AModular Redundant PSU optional (sold
separately)Front-port 160G + virtualStatic + Dynamic DHCP Server + Relay
Warm spare (VRRP)MS450-12-HW
Security Appliances (MX) +Table of Meraki MX Security AppliancesModelWifi ModelInterfacesStateful Firewall ThroughputArchitectureCPU SpeedEnd of SaleEnd of supportZ1Yes5 x GbE50 Mbit/sZ3Yes5 x GbE100 Mbit/sZ4YesWAN: 1 x GbE RJ45 LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45 (1 x PoE)500 Mbit/sMX60MX60W5 x GbE100 Mbit/sMX64MX64WWAN: 1 x GbE RJ45 LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45250 Mbit/sJuly 26, 2022July 26, 2027
See also Cisco Systems List of networking hardware vendors
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