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Cloud Managed Wireless

Pushing up as many applications and services to the Cloud makes financial and operational sense. Why deploy boxes on your client’s networks when you can provision, manage and control them from the Cloud? Wireless LAN solutions are traditionally sold with controllers on premise which adds cost, complexity and inflexibility to the dynamic Wi-Fi environment. Meraki changes this forever by delivering a true Cloud Wireless platform.

The Meraki Enterprise Cloud Controller powers a premium-featured Enterprise Wireless LAN without the cost or complexity of traditional solutions. Designed to provide wireless access to the corporate LAN for offices of any size, industrial firms, retailers, educational institutions and multi-site locations.

Platform Features and Benefits

Cloud Controller: no need to deploy switches on site
Wide range of AP’s: suitable for indoor and outdoor and long distance line of site deployments
Rogue AP Detection: essential for PCI/DSS comes free with the Enterprise Cloud Controller
Up to 900Mbps per AP: and up to 12 miles reach with directional antennas
Real-time Monitoring: from any internet connection
Cost Effective: much less expensive than traditional solutions
Public Access & Billing: Landing Pages, Pre-Pay Billing and Toolbars all available for free within the controller

Scalable Coverage

Scalable Coverage Creates large-scale networks capable of serving thousands of simultaneous 802.11a/b/g/n devices, while providing a single seamless network experience. Meraki’s architecture ensures that there are no bottlenecks or single points of failure in the network.

Meraki Mesh

Meraki Mesh Extends network coverage to areas without wired Ethernet connections. Meraki’s industry-leading wireless routing algorithms choose the fastest, most reliable paths through single-radio, multi-radio, and mixed-radio mesh networks.

Dynamic RF Optimization

Dynamic RF Optimization Adapt to changing interference conditions and utilize the maximum available wireless spectrum. System-wide channel optimization maximizes client performance and client density throughout the network.

Virtual Network Isolation

Virtual Network Isolation Operate multiple fully isolated virtual wireless networks, each with its own policies and VLAN-tagged traffic, on a single physical network.

Encryption

Encryption Prevents eavesdropping on the wireless network with strong, standards-based encryption methods including WEP, WPA2, and AES.

Rogue AP Detection and PCI/DSS Compliance

Rogue AP Detection is an increasingly important element to any publicly accessible Wireless network and Meraki’s Enterprise Cloud Controller includes a fully compliant Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) free of charge. Detect and negate unauthorized access to the network from the cloud.

Hosted Directory Services

Hosted Directory Services use best practice WPA2-Enterprise (802.1x) authentication with Meraki’s built-in hosted directory service, or integrate with existing RADIUS servers, such as Microsoft Active Directory.

L7 Packet Monitoring and Shaping

L7 Packet Monitoring and Shaping has long been popular on the LAN and WAN to ensure critical application take priority over non-critical apps such as peer to peer, facebook etc. Now Meraki is able to extend that capability to the wireless world. Managed controlled and optimised in the Cloud, for free, as part of your Meraki cloud Controller subscription.

Access Point Options

Meraki 802.11n APs are faster than most wired networks, and up to 6 times faster than traditional 802.11b/g devices.

Meraki APs configure with the Cloud Controller over the web almost instantly, they are literally plug and play.

Backed by award-winning mesh and other technologies, Meraki APs provide resilient coverage you can count on.

Outdoor, Public Access Wireless

Mesh routing technology covers large indoor and outdoor areas at a minimal cost. Meraki systems shrink your initial investment, and with phenomenal reliability, your total cost of ownership. From hospitality to MDUs, hotspots to outdoor spaces, Meraki can connect 20 people or 20,000.

Multi-Site Wireless LAN’s

Your organization may have many sites, nearby or all over the world, that all require wireless, but you lack to the IT resources to manage each network onsite, individually. You may also need to provide employees with wireless in their homes, without committing to all the cost and complexity of managing multiple devices from different vendors.

Meraki’s intuitive browser-based management dashboard enables administrators to setup, monitor and manage networks across multiple sites from one central location.

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