Meraki technology offers customers Wi-Fi, switching, security and mobile device management centrally managed from the cloud.
Meraki solutions support BYOD, guest networking, application control, WAN optimization, application firewall and other advanced networking services.
Meraki's services, targeted at mid-sized businesses, are used by more than 10, 000 companies.
Meraki offers services that help firms to manage their networks using the internet.
Cisco has also announced the acquisition of Meraki, a smaller networking firm that provides multiple cloud-based services to small and mid-sized companies.
Meraki combines a high-velocity software development methodology with a tightly linked inside sales and channel model that will form the new Cloud Networking Group.
Meraki founders Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket and Hans Robertson were Ph.
Meraki also developed technology to enable IT professionals to manage WiFi networks from the cloud, so they do not have to physically be in their offices to troubleshoot a problem.
"Meraki's solution was built from the ground up optimized for cloud, with tremendous scale, and is already in use by thousands of customers to manage hundreds of thousands of devices, " he added.
Or a company like Meraki, where we did the Series A investment and (went) through four generations of business plans and met every week until we finally hit on a business plan that worked.
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In the meantime Meraki will help Cisco compete more effectively in areas such as Wi-Fi equipment and cloud-based LAN solutions where a company such as Aruba Networks is considered the gold standard within the sector.
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"The acquisition of Meraki enables Cisco to make simple, secure, cloud managed networks available to our global customer base of mid-sized businesses and enterprises, " Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group said in a statement.
It looks like Meraki's latest move may be having a few repercussions the company hadn't foreseen, with GigaOm now reporting that a number of customers are feeling irked that some folks will now have to pay a premium price for the once bargain-priced mesh networking gear.
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