When you get a call from a wireless user complaining about connectivity problems, what is one of the first questions you might ask?  ”Where are you exactly?”  Knowing precisely where a user is located can be immensely helpful in diagnosing and troubleshooting issues.  What AP are they associated to?  Are they behind a pillar that [...]

Meraki’s AutoRF technology performs automatic cloud-based, system-wide network optimization to ensure peak network performance in any environment.  Each AP on a Meraki network continually monitors its environment for interference from other APs and feeds this information back to the Cloud Controller.  Last month we added Spectrum Analysis, mitigating interference from non-WiFi devices like microwave ovens [...]

Last month we announced our new Traffic Shaper feature and gave administrators unprecedented visibility into the wireless traffic on their network, providing the ability to see what might be bogging down their network, be it YouTube, BitTorrent or too many users uploading pictures to Facebook.  Now, with the new Traffic Shaper page in Dashboard, administrators [...]

This week, we made 3 big announcements: Meraki Traffic Shaper, Spectrum Analysis, and 3 new free cloud-based WiFi tools. Meraki Traffic Shaper is the first cloud-based application traffic shaper, and the first intelligent traffic shaper to be built directly into a wireless solution. Our engineers have been working very hard on this for quite some [...]

Over one in 100 people carried an iPad at TED Global 2010 in Oxford. Read on for more on how the British Telecom and Meraki teams supported this prestigious event.

One of the most challenging aspects of managing large distributed networks is troubleshooting issues when the client is across town (or maybe even across the country!).  Having on-site IT personnel 24/7 at even small satellite branch offices can require a very large IT staff and is too expensive for most organizations.  Meraki networks offer a [...]