Meraki Cloud

Maximizing Business Potential

Meraki brings the benefits of the cloud to edge and branch networks, delivering easy-to-manage wireless, switching, and security solutions that enable customers to seize new business opportunities and reduce operational cost. Whether securing iPads in an enterprise or blanketing a campus with WiFi, Meraki networks simply work.

Meraki was built from the ground up for cloud networking. Meraki offers a complete cloud managed product family including wireless LAN, Ethernet switches, security appliances, and mobile device management, all built to simplify the challenges of modern, device and application-centric networks. Meraki is trusted by over 10,000 customers worldwide.

One of the most important attributes a business can have today is flexibility. Whether it’s the ability to adapt to changing markets, competitive pressures, customer demands or regulatory requirements, you need to be ready for just about anything. Today, the answer to those challenges is cloud networking. Powerful Networking Where And When You Want It Cloud networking is a wireless networking solution that provides centralized management, visibility, and control without the cost and complexity of controller appliances or overlay management software. Cloud Connectiv now offers a complete cloud managed network solution through Cisco Meraki.

Connected Globally, Quickly, Securely

Built from the ground up for cloud management, Meraki products come out of the box with centralized management, layer 7 device and application visibility, real time web-based diagnostics, monitoring and reporting. Cisco Meraki is easy to deploy and requires no training or proprietary command line interfaces. When you have Cloud Connectiv design and deploy a Cisco Meraki system, you get: n Plug-and-play wireless access points (APs), switches and security appliances that are optimized for both office and small or remote site locations n Single pane-of-glass visibility and control over WLAN, LAN, security, guest WiFi and mobile devices n Scalable, cost-effective Ethernet switches that are ultra reliable and easy to manage n Secure VPN connections between distributed sites n An intuitive cloud-based management dashboard that can be deployed in minutes without training or on-site staff n Dramatically reduced total cost of ownership

Sustaining Your Infrastructure

The Secret Is In The System The Cisco Meraki product portfolio is a system of APs, switches, appliances and software that are designed to be centrally managed from the cloud. The feature-rich, easy-to-use Meraki cloud architecture can enable you to solve new business problems as they arise while reducing operating costs. Wireless LAN Meraki APs are built from the highest-grade components and carefully optimized for a seamless user experience. Meraki APs provide deep network insight enabling smarter network management. The Cisco Meraki dashboard gives visibility into the network users, their devices and their applications. Armed with rich analytics, administrators can quickly create access control and application usage policies, optimizing both the end-user experience and network security. The outcome: faster connections, greater user capacity, more coverage, enhanced security and fewer support calls. Switches Meraki switches combine the benefits of cloud-based centralized management with a powerful, reliable access platform. With cloud management, thousands of switch ports can be configured and monitored instantly, over the web. Meraki switches feature virtual stacking — an industry first — that allows management of thousands of switch ports as one, without requiring a physical connection between switches. You can quickly find and configure switch ports across your entire network, even those in geographically-distributed locations. Meraki also allows you to configure ports for access devices, assign voice VLANs, control PoE, and more, with a few simple clicks.

Location, Location, Location

Choosing a colocation provider away from a city or data center hub with optimal connectivity options – both to the capital, Europe and further afield – means having the advantages of all central data centers with the added benefits of having attractive power capabilities and the security of being away from centrally targeted terrorist activity. Out-of-town colocation providers allow businesses to take full advantage of the capital’s infrastructure without the premium costs associated with it.

A colocation solution provides companies with a variety of opportunities, with exceptional SLAs and having data secured off-site, providing organizations with added levels of risk management and the chance to invest in better equipment and state-of-the-art servers. This can enable IT teams the possibility to explore options such as virtualization and condense the amount of racks and servers required.
Colocation providers are able to meet business requirements at a lower cost than if the service was kept in-house. Data centers and colocation providers have the ability to have businesses up and running within hours, as well as provide the flexibility to grow alongside your organization. Colocation space, power, bandwidth and connection speeds can all be increased where required to ensure that all sizes of colocation clients can be catered to.

1 Scalability
Did your computing needs shoot up overnight? Or did they drop drastically during your slow season? Instead of having to hire — or fire — new staff or purchase more equipment to handle it yourself, you can just make a call to your colocation provider and scale your service up or down as needed.

2 Connectivity
Colocation providers keep your servers in climate-controlled data centers, with high bandwidth speeds, and excellent redundancy for network connections. You won’t have to pay the costs to purchase and maintain this kind of IT infrastructure in your own offices, and your internal IT staff can focus on other business operations.

3 Security
Quality colocation providers house your servers in secure data centers, with security measures that include biometric scanners, closed circuit cameras, on-site security, coded access, alarm systems, and more. And with colocation, you

don’t have to hire or purchase any of these security measures yourself — it’s all included in your service plan.

4 Stability
If you have to move offices, or are hit with a power outage, or suffer a natural disaster, you won’t have to worry about your data or services going down. A colocation provider will have multiple backup generators and contingencies in place to ensure that there is never an interruption in service, for you, or for your customers.

5 Predictability
Not only does using a colocation provider often save money, but it also turns unpredictable capital outlays into predictable monthly expenses.  You only pay for your own equipment, not a whole datacenter.  Your company will be able to budget for IT needs and allocate existing resources more efficiently.