Meraki is the leader in cloud-based wireless networking, delivering feature parity with the industry's top solutions providers while leaving heavyweight controllers out of the picture.
Instead of wireless switches that provide the intelligence behind the contemporary wireless network, Meraki hosts this typically expensive and often maintenance-heavy building block in the cloud, greatly simplifying the components needed to pull off a top-notch WLAN.
The beauty of this model is that all firmware upgrades and feature adds are Meraki's problem, saving admins significant time and grief. Another nice bonus to Meraki's approach is that customers benefit from new features added to the Cloud Controller automatically--with no new licensing fees--and the new Traffic Shaper and Auto RF Tools will provide valuable functionality to existing Meraki 802.11n environments, making the competition take note.
The Cloud Controller
Dashboard is the point of control and monitoring
for Traffic Control, and the powerful new
capability fits well with the other dashboard
elements. Meraki's Traffic Control is
competitive in that it delivers a frequently
updated, signature-based traffic classification
and control mechanism without the added cost of
a Palo Alto or BlueCoat appliance.
This amounts to not only a tremendous cost
savings, but it eliminates the complexity of
traffic-shaping in distributed environments
where a given organisation may have wireless in
a number of branch offices or distributed sites
all manged by the Cloud Controller. As with any
traffic control tool, Meraki's Traffic Control
demystifies what traffic types are traversing
the network and allows for customized, granular
control that preserves bandwidth for priority
applications and users.
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Enterprise Wireless LAN wins PC Mag's
Editor's Choice"The integration of Meraki's APs with its Cloud Controller creates an intuitive and quick way to setup a mesh-based wireless LAN for a business or campus." |
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