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
TypeDivision
IndustryNetworking, IT
Founded2006
FounderSanjit Biswas, John Bicket, Hans Robertson
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
,
U.S.
Key people
Chris Stori (SVP, GM), Bret Hull (CTO)
ParentCisco Systems
Websitemeraki.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 End of Support
MR11 Aug 30, 2017
MR12 2x2:2 802.11n (2.4GHz) Gigabit MIPS Atheros (AR7242/7241) 400MHz Macronix 16MB 64MD AR9283-AL1A
MR14 Aug 30, 2017
MR16 2x2:2 802.11n Gigabit MIPS Atheros AR7161-BC1A 680MHz Macronix 16MiB 64MB AR9283-AL1A
MR18 2x2:2 802.11n Gigabit MIPS Qualcomm QCA9557-AT4A 720 Hynix 128MiB (NAND) 128MB SoC AR9550 + 2x Atheros AR9582-AR1A
MR24 3x3:3 802.11n Gigabit
MR32 2x2:2 802.11ac Gigabit
MR33 2x2:2 802.11ac Wave 2 Gigabit ARMv7 Qualcomm IPQ4029 716MHz Spansion S34ML01G200TFV00 128MiB 256MB Qualcomm QCA9887
MR34 3x3:3 802.11ac Wave 2 Gigabit
MR36 2x2:2 802.11ax Gigabit
MR42 3x3:3 802.11ac Wave 2 Gigabit
MR45 4x4:4 802.11ax 2.5Gig
MR46 4x4:4 802.11ax 2.5Gig
MR53 4x4:4 802.11ac Wave 2 2.5Gig+Gigabit
MR55 8x8:8 802.11ax 5Gig
MR56 8x8:8 802.11ax 5Gig
MR58 Oct 30, 2017
MR66 2x2:2 802.11n Jun 9, 2024

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

References
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  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.
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  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.
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