Cisco Meraki

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

Cisco Meraki

Type	Division
Industry	Networking, IT
Founded	2006
Founder	Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket, Hans Robertson
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA , U.S.
Key people	Chris Stori (SVP, GM), Bret Hull (CTO)
Parent	Cisco Systems
Website	meraki.cisco.com

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.[2][3][4]

In 2007, Meraki selected San Francisco for their community-based Free the Net campaign. They started putting gateway devices in the Lower Haight neighborhood to provide Internet access and giving away repeaters. In the first year of the project, the growth of the network was primarily in the Mission District. By October 2007, they estimated 20,000 distinct users connected and about 5 terabytes of data transferred in this network. In July 2008, Meraki said 100,000 people in San Francisco used its "Free the Net" service. Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet.

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

Products

Access Points (MR)

Table of Meraki MR Access Points

Model	Wifi Capablity	Ethernet	Architecture	System-on-Chip	CPU Speed	Flash-Chip	Flash Size	Ram Size	Wireless chip
MR12	2x2:2 802.11n (2.4GHz)	1Gig	MIPS	Atheros (AR7242/7241)	400MHz	Macronix	16MB	64MD	AR9283-AL1A
MR16	2x2:2 802.11n	1Gig	MIPS	Atheros AR7161-BC1A	680MHz	Macronix	16MiB	64MB	AR9283-AL1A
MR18	2x2:2 802.11n	1Gig
MR24	3x3:3 802.11n	1Gig
MR32	2x2:2 802.11ac	1Gig
MR33	2x2:2 802.11ac Wave 2	1Gig	ARMv7	Qualcomm IPQ4029	716MHz	Spansion S34ML01G200TFV00	128MiB	256MB	Qualcomm QCA9887
MR34	3x3:3 802.11ac Wave 2	1Gig
MR36	2x2:2 802.11ax	1Gig
MR42	3x3:3 802.11ac Wave 2	1Gig
MR45	4x4:4 802.11ax	2.5Gig
MR46	4x4:4 802.11ax	2.5Gig
MR53	4x4:4 802.11ac Wave 2	2.5Gig+1Gig
MR55	8x8:8 802.11ax	5Gig
MR56	8x8:8 802.11ax	5Gig

Switches (MS)

Security Appliances (MX)

Table of Meraki MX Security Appliances

Model	Wifi Model	Interfaces	Stateful Firewall Throughput	Architecture	CPU Speed
Z1[5]	Yes	5 x GbE	50 Mbit/s
Z3[6]	Yes	5 x GbE	100 Mbit/s
MX60[7]	MX60W	5 x GbE	100 Mbit/s
MX64[8]	MX64W	WAN: 1 x GbE RJ45 LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45	250 Mbit/s
MX65	MX65W
MX67	MX67W
MX68	MX68W
MX80	N/A	5 x GbE	250 Mbit/s
MX84	N/A	5 x GbE	500 Mbit/s
MX90	N/A	9 x GbE, 2 x GbE (SFP)	500 Mbit/s
MX100	N/A	9 x GbE, 2 x GbE (SFP)	750 Mbit/s
MX250	N/A	WAN: 2 x 10GbE (SFP+) LAN: 8 x GbE (RJ45), 8 x GbE (SFP), 8 x 10GbE (SFP+)	4 Gbit/s
MX400	N/A	8 x GbE (RJ45), 8 GbE (SFP), 4 x 10GbE (SFP+)	1 Gbit/s
MX450	N/A		6 Gbit/s
MX600	N/A	8 x GbE (RJ45), 8 GbE (SFP), 4 x 10GbE (SFP+)	2 Gbit/s

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".[9][10][11][12][13]

See also

• Cisco Systems
• List of networking hardware vendors

References

1. Constine, Josh. "Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
2. "Sequoia – Companies". Sequoia Capital. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
3. Fehrenbacher, Katie (2006-08-02). "Meraki Cooks Up Wireless Mesh Router". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
4. Goodin, Dan (15 August 2007). "Google-Funded startup to offer free WiFi in San Francisco". The Register. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
5. Cisco Meraki (PDF). Cisco Meraki https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_z1.pdf. Retrieved 23 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Cisco Meraki (PDF). Cisco Meraki https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_z_series.pdf. Retrieved 23 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. Cisco Meraki (PDF). Cisco Meraki https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_MX90.pdf. Retrieved 23 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. Cisco Meraki (PDF). Cisco Meraki https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_mx.pdf. Retrieved 23 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
9. "North American Object Storage Service Impact". Cisco Meraki. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
10. "Cisco Meraki suffers data loss caused by human error". The Stack. 7 August 2017. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2019 – via Techerati.
11. Marzouk, Zach (7 August 2017). "Cisco Meraki loses customer data in engineering gaffe". CloudPro. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
12. Hardcastle, Jessica Lyons (7 August 2017). "Cisco Meraki Data Loss Reveals Need for Oversight". SDX Central. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
13. Sharwood, Simon (6 August 2017). "Cisco loses customer data in Meraki cloud muckup". The Register. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

External links

• Official website