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The Fastest WiFi: Now on Desktops

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A few weeks ago we featured several laptops from leading vendors that have integrated triple-stream 3×3 MIMO. This means that road warriors and lightweight computing gurus can zip along using WiFi at up to 450 Mbps, provided they connect to an access point such as the Meraki MR24. But laptop users don’t get all the [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

How Many iPads Are On Your Wireless Network?

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Do you know what impact iPads are having on your wireless network? Meraki’s Client Fingerprinting automatically recognizes and categorizes Apple iPads. Network administrators can see the iPads on their network and, just like with all other client devices, can see how much bandwidth they consume and what applications they are using. To see those iPads, [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Meraki Live! The power of client visibility just got better.

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Meraki customers know the power of client visibility. We provide great granularity into your network to make identifying clients or devices simple – and we want to continue to WOW you! Starting today, Enterprise users will get live status information when viewing the list of connected clients. You will see information such as a real [...]

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Posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Cisco’s New Flex 7500 Series Controller

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This week at Interop in Las Vegas, Cisco announced their new controller, the Cisco Flex 7500 Series, which they call a cloud controller. Clearly, Cisco agrees that cloud architectures and approaches are here to stay, and customer demand for cloud networking is simply too great to ignore. We must admit it’s flattering to see Cisco [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Going Native (Active Directory, that is)

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Active Directory has become the industry standard authentication server for most enterprise network deployments today. Meraki cloud-managed APs have always been able to integrate with Active Directory using RADIUS, by enabling Microsoft Network Policy Server (or Internet Authentication Service, depending on which version of Windows Server you are running). This satisfies the needs of most [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Is Your Laptop Ready for the Fastest WiFi?

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Earlier this year we introduced the Meraki MR24 access point. Clocking in with a 900 Mbit/s aggregate data rate, it’s an unbeatable AP for high-performance and high-density deployments. Each radio can reach up to 450 Mbit/s. Naturally, connecting to the AP at this rate requires a client device that is also capable of handling triple-stream [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011