Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki

Company type	Division
Industry	Networking, IT
Founded	2006;19 years ago (2006) in Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founders	Sanjit Biswas John Bicket Hans Robertson
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people	Lawrence Huang (SVP, GM)
Parent	Cisco Systems
Website	meraki.cisco.com

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. ^[1]

History

Meraki was founded by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket, along with Hans Robertson.^{[ citation needed ]} 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Meraki was funded by Google and Sequoia Capital.^{[ citation needed ]} The organization started in Mountain View, California, in 2006, before relocating to San Francisco.^{[ citation needed ]} Meraki employed people who worked on the MIT Roofnet project. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

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

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". ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Products

Switches (MS)

Series [11]	Deployment type	Interfaces	Uplinks	PoE capabilities	Power configuration	Stacking capabilities	Routing capabilities	Models
MS225	Branch & small campus	24 / 48 x 1GbE RJ45	4 x SFP+ Fixed	370W (LP model) 740W (FP model)	Internal	Yes, 80G physical + virtual	DHCP Relay	MS225-24-HW MS225-24P-HW MS225-48-HW MS225-48LP-HW MS225-48FP-HW
MS450	10G fiber aggregation	12x 40GbE QSFP+	2 x 100GbE QSFP28	N/A	Modular Redundant PSU optional (sold separately)	Front-port 160G + virtual	Static + Dynamic DHCP Server + Relay Warm spare (VRRP)	MS450-12-HW

Security Appliances (MX)

Table of Meraki MX Security Appliances

Model	Wifi Model	Interfaces	Stateful Firewall Throughput	Architecture	CPU Speed	End of Sale	End of support
Z1 [12]	Yes	5 x GbE	50 Mbit/s
Z3 [13]	Yes	5 x GbE	100 Mbit/s
Z4 [14]	Yes	WAN: 1 x GbE RJ45 LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45 (1 x PoE)	500 Mbit/s
MX60 [15]	MX60W	5 x GbE	100 Mbit/s
MX64 [16]	MX64W	WAN: 1 x GbE RJ45 LAN: 4 x GbE RJ45	250 Mbit/s			July 26, 2022	July 26, 2027

See also

• Cisco Systems
• List of networking hardware vendors

References

1. Constine, Josh (18 November 2012). "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. Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. 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. "North American Object Storage Service Impact". Cisco Meraki. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
6. "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.
7. Marzouk, Zach (7 August 2017). "Cisco Meraki loses customer data in engineering gaffe". CloudPro. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
8. Hardcastle, Jessica Lyons (7 August 2017). "Cisco Meraki Data Loss Reveals Need for Oversight". SDX Central. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
9. Sharwood, Simon (6 August 2017). "Cisco loses customer data in Meraki cloud muckup". The Register. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
10. "North American Object Storage Service Impact (8-4-2017)". Cisco Meraki Documentation. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
11. "Meraki MS Series Switches Family Datasheet". Meraki MS Series Switches Family Datasheet. 17 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
12. "Cisco Meraki Z1 Datasheet" (PDF). Cisco Meraki. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
13. "Meraki Z-Series Datasheet" (PDF). Cisco Meraki. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
14. "Z4 Datasheet". Cisco Meraki. Retrieved 11 Feb 2025.
15. "MX Cloud Managed Security Appliance Series Datasheet" (PDF). Cisco Meraki. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
16. "Meraki MX Cloud-Managed Security and SD-WAN Datasheet" (PDF). Cisco Meraki. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

External links

• Official website