Meraki in the News
Distributor Brings On-Demand Cloud ‘Pen-Testing’ to the UK But the potential for this emerging area of cloud-based services could be far bigger, as well as complementary to his firm’s success in distributing Meraki’s cloud-based wireless network systems. 10/26/2011
Frieze Art Fair Shows How Much Demand For Event WiFi is Growing The statistics retrieved from the Meraki Dashboard show the nearly 5,000 devices were connected to the WiFi network over the course of the event. 10/25/2011
Cloud Distribution to Diversify Vendor Base Cloud Distribution has unveiled iViZ Security as the first of several planned strategic vendor signings as it looks to grow beyond its roots as a Meraki ally. 10/24/2011
Aruba Shares Look Beached Emerging WiFi start-ups with Meraki let companies manage their WiFi networks over the Web, instead of with expensive “controllers” that manage the networks. 10/11/2011
Track and Monitor Your Wi-Fi Network Monitoring tools are essential for identifying issues quickly and resolving them,” says Pablo Estrada, solutions architect at Meraki. He also says that some networking solutions have these tools built right in, so the cost doesn’t have to be overwhelming. 10/7/2011
Group Aims To Bring Free Wi-Fi to Downtown At Create Fayetteville’s Wednesday meeting, Ric Cavender, executive director of Charleston’s East End Main Street (EEMS) organization, spoke to members about his experience starting the first free, public Wi-Fi network in Kanawha County. Cavender’s organization purchased equipment manufactured by Meraki. 10/6/2011
Monterey Jazz Festival Uses Meraki’s Outdoor Network Monterey Jazz Festival in California, US, has completed its Wi-Fi-enabled music festival using cloud-based wireless networking company Meraki’s outdoor 802.11n network. 10/5/2011
4 Tips For Setting Up Special Event Wi-Fi Luis Alvarez of Alvarez Technology Group used Meraki’s MR16 indoor access point and MR58 outdoor access point. 10/4/2011
Newton Hopes Free Wi-Fi Enlivens Downtown Jason Clay developed a Wi-Fi distribution system using equipment from two California networking companies – Meraki and Ubiquiti – and by buying direct. 9/25/2011
How to Avoid the Wi-Fi Blues in Academia Five best practices that school network administrators should follow when deploying Wi-Fi, by John Bicket, CTO at Meraki. 9/20/2011
Renton Selects Meraki For Wi-Fi Access US-based Renton School District has selected cloud-based wireless networking company Meraki’s MR24 cloud controlled wireless access points to provide Wi-Fi access to Renton’s 16,000 students, faculty and staff. 9/16/2011
10 Great Cloud Services For Small Business Small businesses may not have the resources for an on-site IT staff. Meraki Wi-Fi Stumbler is an online wireless network analyzer that’s simple enough for anyone at your business to use. 9/14/2011
Wireless to the nth Degree Ease of use was eventually the deciding factor for Bartlett and his team [of Bremerton School District], which chose Meraki for the district’s wireless technology. The Meraki access point/cloud-based control solution incorporates a couple of security features that are especially useful in a school setting. 9/13/2011
Branch Networking: Comparing Branch Office Routers Meraki specializes in distributed wireless LAN infrastructure and industrial environments with high levels of ambient radio frequency interference. Several towns and cities provide Wi-Fi access to their citizens and restaurant chains to their customers using Meraki products. 9/7/2011
BYOD Trends Puts Pressure on Corporate Networks – Mobile and Wireless Meraki’s Client Fingerprinting technology can identify devices that connect to the networks, identify the device’s operating system, make and model, and client information such as the NetBios name and MAC address. 9/5/2011
Meraki Introduces MR62 and MR66 Wireless Access Points In a bid to modernize outdoor wireless networks, the well known cloud networking company Meraki announced the launch of its two new outdoor 802.11n cloud controlled wireless access points (APs) – the Meraki MR62 and MR66. 8/25/11
Meraki Adds Outdoor AP Duo The single-radio Meraki MR62 and dual-radio MR66 are designed for high client density, bandwidth-intensive applications and rugged conditions. 8/23/11
Meraki Expands Cloud Networking with NAC Networking vendor Meraki is updating both its software and hardware this week expanding security and performance. 8/23/11
iPads Are Wi-Fi Data Pigs A study earlier this summer by wireless vendor Meraki reveals some starting information based on the data collected across their customers’ networks. Apple’s iPad users are piggy when it comes to their data consumption, averaging close to 200 MB monthly, compared to an average smartphone user of about 40 MB. 8/22/11
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools To Cloud-Based Controller Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis. The tools exploit the packet processing engine embedded on each Meraki access point, and are accessed via a Web browser. 8/11/11
Two Different Worlds, Two Different Wireless Networks We opted for Meraki’s cloud-managed wireless and wired networking after doing an eval and comparing cost and complexity versus features and ease of use for different options. Though it’s too early to say that Meraki was a slam-dunk for us in this case, all indications and feedback so far have me feeling quite good about how we proceeded. 8/9/11
Wireless to the Nth Degree Ease of use was eventually the deciding factor for Bartlett and his team, which chose Meraki for the district’s wireless technology. Contributing to that sense of ease is a cloud-based control solution that hosts functions customarily managed by a controller, a device that sits on the network and connects to the access points.”It’s all done through a secure web browser, so an IT administrator can deploy the network with the appropriate security and guest access policy and access control without having specialized training and wireless certifications,” explains Kiren Sekar, director of marketing at Meraki. 8/8/11
WLAN Management Takes to the CloudMerkai was one of the firms that originated the concept of cloud-based deployment, and all of its access point products are provisioned via its cloud-based Cloud Controller service. 8/2/11
Update: Aerohive and Meraki’s Latest Announcements Meraki announced the MX60 Cloud Managed Router. As one can surmise from the products name, Meraki is extending their cloud management platform reviewed in the Network World article to a little brother to the firm’s MX70. 7/20/11
Meraki’s Latest Cloud Rumblings Meraki is also upping its street credibility as trustworthy enterprise solution with a few different measures. Now, Meraki has partnered with McAfee to conduct running penetration tests of its cloud control environment.7/15/11
WLANÂaus der Cloud (Praxistest)Die Redaktion schaute doch recht unglaübig, als das kalifornische Startup-Unternehmen Meraki uns eine solche Lösung vorstellen wollte. 7/15/11
Meraki MX60 Router Meraki this week announced the MX60 Cloud Managed Router. Their MX line, introduced in January, is not equipped with WiFi. It is a small router designed for small branches that need security, such as retail chains, clinics, and other enterprises. 7/15/11
Praxistest WLAN aus der Cloud Die Redaktion schaute doche recht ungläubig als das kalifornische Startup-Unternehmen Meraki uns eine solche Lösung vorstellen wollte. 7/14/11
Report: iPads Use More Wi-Fi Data Than ÂOther Devices To compile its data, Meraki said that it anonymously surveyed over 100,000 random devices accessing public and educational Wi-Fi networks. The company examined both bandwidth and mobile operating systems and compared usage between the first half of 2011 and the first half of 2010. 6/23/11
47% Of The Devices On Burger King’s Wi-FI Networks Run iOS According to a report released Wednesday by Meraki, a San Francisco-based company that provides wireless networking 17,000 small and medium-sized organizations, from MIT and UVA to Starbucks and Burger King, 2011 was the year that mobile devices overtook PPCs as the major sonsumers of Wi-Fi Data. 6/22/11
Mobile Devices Overtake Computers On Wi-Fi Networks Meraki said for the most recent study, it surveyed more than 100,000 devices accessing general use, public and educational Wi-Fi networks accross the U.S., looking at usage and operating systems from 2010 to 2011. 6/21/11
In Den Bergen Auf Den Funkwellen Surfen Meraki unter anderem mit der automatischen Meshing-Funktion der einzelnen Access Points einen entscheidenden Vorteil bietet. 6/8/11
InfoWorld Review: Meraki Enterprise Cloud Controller Meraki’s friendly, cloud-managed wireless LAN solution is a fantastic option for small businesses, distributed networks, and overworked admins. 6/1/11
Avenda Collaborates With Meraki to Offer Path for Advanced Network Access Policy Services Meraki’s cloud-based high performance wireless networks and easy-to-use deployment and management features complement Avenda’s model of easy-to-deploy policy services. 5/24/11
Breakthrough WAN Technologies That Will Change Your Company’s Network Now that Meraki has moved its hardware controller into the cloud while also extending its wireless model out into the WAN, the vendor can give enterprises control across cloud wireless LAN and WAN environments.Â5/18/11
Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011 Sanjit Biswas founded Meraki in May 2006 while he was a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wanted to create something that would let anyone deploy a large-scale wireless network within minutes.Â5/17/11
Winning The Wireless Wars Meraki tries to help out by making wireless infrastructure as easy to deploy as possible, and make it really simple and integrated. “The way we do that is to put the intelligence of the network in the cloud.” 5/4/11
Shoppers Deserve Free Wi-Fi “At Meraki, we’ve seen such retailers as United Colors of Benetton deploy networks in just a few hours-and end up serving 1,000 shoppers a day.” 5/2/11
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Meraki’s Momentum Meraki has just released it’s Q1 2011 results which show that the cloud-based networking company is making significant gains in the industry. 4/26/11
Consumer Wireless in a Corporate Environment “Even if they have some kind of password on it, it might not be at the level of security standards that your enterprise is looking for,” says Kiren Sekar, director of marketing at Meraki. 4/22/11
Meraki Hunts Wireless Novices Meraki is hoping to ramp up UK reseller numbers by embarking on a recruitment drive with partner Cloud Distribution. Â4/6/11
What Do Spark Plugs And WLAN Solutions Have In Common? A cloud-based vendor, Meraki, offers a compelling value proposition. 3/30/11
Top 5 Best Ways to Speed up Your Broadband Connection In Just Five Minutes Use a tool like Meraki’s Wi-fi stumbler or inSSIDer to find the least busy channels. 3/28/11
Are Home Networks Destined for Cloud-Based Networking?Meraki, For instance, might build great hardware, but in the end, it’s web-based management of devices and the network is what makes it an attractive proposition. 3/23/11
The Rise of Cloud Managed Objects Meraki centralized servers could analyze thousands of devices’ data and automatically change the wireless channel and strength from a remote user router to ensure best reception. 3/20/11
Cloud-Based Networking Hardware: Coming to a Wiring Closet Near You? Meraki has introduced a pair of homegrown routers that are managed through the same cloud that manages the vendor’s wireless LAN access points. 3/16/11
Wireless Access Point Market Grew 30 Percent over Previous Year: In-Stat Because of growing demands from employees for flexible workplace environments, IT departments are under pressure to incorporate Wi-Fi access and functionality into their set of network features. 3/16/11
Some Hard Facts About Wi-Fi and Its Future Applications such as these, not to mention our desire to check out tweets, Facebook friends, watch YouTube videos and occasionally even do work, has doubled the network traffic on the wireless networks since last year. These networks use gear from companies such as San Francisco-based wireless gear maker, Meraki. 3/15/11
Aruba Latest to Turn WLAN Inside-Out Meraki has taken more dramatic steps, the former shifting all control functions into its APs, and the latter to a cloud based service. 3/15/11
Research: Strong Growth in Wireless Access Point Market Companies such as AeroHive and Meraki Networks are giving access points enhanced hardware features and also moving the controller to the cloud to make network management more seamless. 3/14/11
WLAN Innovation Continues Meraki Networks is giving access points enhanced hardware features and moving the controller functions to the cloud, a change designed to ease network management challenges for businesses. 3/14/11
HP Access Points Go to 3 The Meraki MR24 introduced triple-stream, 802.11n access point last month. It also features 900 Mb/sec speeds and features a built in Network Access Control for one-click network security and cloud controlled management, rather than local hardware. 3/1/11
Meraki Expands Cloud Networking With NAC Networking vendor Meraki is updating both its software and hardware this week expanding security and performance. Meraki develops cloud managed network routers and Wi-Fi access points. 2/24/11
Meraki Adds to Cloud Networking Lineup A high-speed access point, integrated network access control, and a plug-and-play VPN device are intended to bolster security, especially for SMBs and companies with remote and mobile workers. 2/24/11
Meraki Unveils Three Products for Enterprise Wireless LANs Cloud-based wireless networking company Meraki has introduced three products that provide capacity, enhanced security and reach for enterprise wireless LANs. These products extend Meraki’s portfolio of wireless and wired networking features and deliver a complete networking service for providing secure network access. 2/24/11
Meraki MR-24: 3×3 MIMO WiFi vendor Meraki, which makes easy to use and manage WiFi systems for individuals and enterprises, today announced three new additions to their wireless product portfolio that provide greater capacity, increased security and broader reach for enterprise wireless LANs. 2/23/11
More Features and Products from Meraki Meraki is at that weird stage in a tech start-up’s life where it becomes hugely critical to grow sales, differentiate the products, and gain greater industry recognition. They seem to be meeting that challenge in stride with what seems like an unending series of new hardware and software product announcements. 2/23/11
Meraki Enhances Wireless Line Meraki has carved out a growing niche by offering businesses cloud based wireless network services. To maintain its momentum, the vendor added three items to its product line. The enhancements offer customers greater capacity, increased security, and more flexibility. 2/23/11
Meraki Adds Three-Stream N AP Meraki has introduced three additions to its cloud-managed enterprise wireless 
Meraki Adds Three-Stream N AP Meraki has introduced three additions to its cloud-managed enterprise wireless product portfolio. The Meraki MR24 is billed as the first “cloud-managed” three-stream access point. It’s a dual-radio AP using transmit beamforming and enhanced receiver sensitivity.2/23/11
Meraki Announces A $15 Million Round of Funding A $15 million round of funding has been announced by Meraki, a somewhat new Company in the cloud networking arena. Considered to be Company’s Series C, this round was reportedly led by Sequoia Capital. 2/9/11
Cloud Networking Startup Meraki Raises $15M From Sequoia Meraki, a relatively new company in the cloud networking arena, has just announced a $15 million round of funding. This is the company’s Series C. The round was led by Sequoia Capital. 2/8/11
Meraki Raises $15M in 3rd Round Cloud networking company Meraki Inc. said Tuesday it raised $15 million in a third round of funding and ended 2010 with more than 17,000 networks deployed worldwide. 2/8/11
$15M For Meraki Meraki, a San Francisco startup that makes wireless access points and routers that owners can manage via cloud connections, said today that it has raised $15 million in new capital in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The series C round brings the company’s total venture financing to $40 million. 2/8/11
Meraki Raises $15M Led By Sequoia Capital San Francisco-based Meraki, which provides hardware and software for building large-scale wireless networks that are employed by businesses, schools and other organisations, raised $15m. The funding was led by Sequoia Capital, which creates a total funding of $40m. 2/8/11
Wireless Networking Firm Meraki Gets $15M Meraki Inc. has raised $15 million in a third round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, TechCrunch reports. 2/8/11
The Daily Start-Up: The Hippeau-Lerer Hour Cloud networking company Meraki Networks Inc. wasn’t particularly looking for funding, but Sequoia Capital approached it with an offer that was too good to refuse. From there it was just a short time to a Sequoia-led $15 million round at a sizable valuation. 2/8/11
Cloud Networking Co. Meraki Scores $15M On $150M-Plus Valuation Cloud networking company Meraki Inc. has scored $15 million on a valuation north of $150 million to expand its team around the globe. 2/8/11
Sequoia Leads $15 Million Round In Wireless Networking Company Meraki Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia Capital. This brings Meraki’s total funding to $40 million. Previous investors include Google, DAG Ventures and Northgate Capital. 2/8/11
2 Wi-Fi vendors adding cloud-based networking Meraki has unveiled a family of wireline network routers. Like Meraki’s Wi-Fi access points, the routers will be managed and secured by a cloud-based set of services accessed via a Web interface. Enterprise customers will be able buy and adjust a network infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go basis for an annual fee. 1/18/11
2 Wi-Fi vendors adding cloud-based networking “The Meraki routers combine four distinct functions traditionally handled by separate appliances: routing, application firewall, site-to-site VPN, and network monitoring. In addition, customers that have been relying on leased lines or similar WAN arrangements will be able to substitute for redundant cable modem or DSL connections for still more operational savings…” 1/18/11
Cloudy, With A Chance Of Networking “With one of my favorite Web-based management views and ridiculously attractive pricing options, Meraki’s new MX series of routers delivers an all-inclusive feature set that consolidates network services under one hood.” 1/18/11
Meraki Debuts Networking as a Service Pricing Program “Networking as a Service provides various advantages to the users when compared to the traditional capex models. Enhanced with the help of cloud computing, this is the ideal way to pay for IT expenses in the modern world.” 1/17/11
Meraki adds routing to Wi-Fi cloud portfolio“Cloud networking is taking off and could help enterprises unify their wireless and wired network operations in new, economical and convenient ways.” 1/14/11
Meraki Takes Wired Network Routers to the Cloud “The traditional enterprise network pays for routers that are then typically managed via the corporate LAN or VPN. Wi-Fi networking vendor Meraki is now aiming to challenge the traditional model of management and acquisition of wired routers with a new cloud-based subscription service for router management and hardware.” 1/13/11
Meraki Enters Wired Market, Introduces Network as a Service Pricing “Meraki is taking Cisco head-on and entering the wired networking gear space with the release of two new routers intended for branch deployment.” 1/13/11
Meraki Enters Network-As-A-Service Market “Meraki has carved out a viable business by delivering cloud based wireless network products, so the vendor is now extending its reach into the wired network equipment marketplace.” 1/13/11
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Meraki Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-Managed Router “Meraki today announced the release of a networking first: cloud-managed routers.” 1/13/11
Meraki Adds Wired Routers & Subscription Service “Today Meraki, a cloud-based wireless networking company known for its inexpensive and easy to manage WiFi gear, announced their Meraki MX series cloud-managed routers, integrating web-based centralized management to non-WiFi routers. Meraki also introduced Networking as a Service pricing, a new subscription service that eliminates upfront hardware costs.” 1/13/11
Meraki Releases Cloud-managed Router, Introduces NaaS Program “The key features of the MX series include cloud-based centralized management, layer 7 application firewall and traffic shaper, site to site VPN, routing, DHCP, and a firewall. Additionally, the new hardware devices are able to automatically detect and monitor printers while tracking and showing printer ink levels across remote divisions.” 1/13/11
2010 in Wi-Fi: the Year in Review “‘Expect much greater cloud involvement–Meraki and PowerCloud are pointing the way here and I think [cloud approaches] will become very popular indeed. Virtualization and cost-cutting in general will remain hot topics in 2011 and beyond,’” 12/21/10
New Networking Technology for 2011 “‘In addition to the cost piece, there’s the reality that many SMBs favor the convenience of ‘webifying’ their networks and of taking the server out of the data center.’” 12/19/10
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 3) “I had one person who knew how to manage the wireless environment before because of the sophistication of the tool. In terms of the complexity, these new cloud-based tools are, if you are to look at them, a Google map. … We have now ten or eleven people who are capable of regularly checking the health and state of the wireless network due to the simplicity of the interface, which distributes that management across a wider range of people because it is cloud based.” 11/17/10
Meraki MR16 Raises WiFi Bar While Lowering Price “The new Meraki MR16 802.11n access point delivers improved performance at a much lower price point than its previous models, while seamlessly supporting all the WiFi features offered via Meraki’s Cloud Controller.” 11/22/10
Meraki Challenges The WLAN Market to Do More With (And For) Less “With their latest access point offerings, Meraki goes beyond hosting their clients’ central system control functions by shrinking both the size of their primary access point offerings and their costs. The changes may not seem like a big deal at first blush, but they may well be a barometer of where the WLAN market is going.” 11/23/10
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Meraki Unveils Sleeker, More Streamlined Access Points “Both APs are being touted as the industry’s “slimmest” measuring less than one-inch thin. They also feature 4th generation, 2×2 MIMO chipsets capable of delivering speeds up to 300 mbit/sec for the MR12 and 600 mbit/sec for the MR16.” 11/12/10
Meraki Enterprise Hotspots Go to 11n “Bingo. No software to download. No wires to plug in. No problems. They just work.” 11/11/10
Meraki Delivers New 802.11n Access Points at Much Lower Price “Meraki Networks today unveiled a pair of new access points designed to serve high-density deployments, delivering sleeker, better performing units at a much more attractive price point.” 11/11/10
Meraki releases enhanced enterprise 802.11n access points “The APs’ small footprint, and internal antennas enable mounting in high traffic environments such as lobbies and conference rooms.” 11/11/10
Meraki Unveils Two New Access Points “The products feature a one inch thin design, so they can be mounted in high traffic areas, such as lobbies and conference rooms.” 11/11/10
Preparing Wi-Fi Networks For The iPad Invasion “Meraki is betting big on Layer 7 visibility, building signature-based traffic shaping into its network — allowing administrators to throttle Netflix viewing while allowing WebEx video conferencing, for instance — which has proved pretty useful from what I’ve seen so far.” 11/2/10
Program Will Bring Wireless To Schools “The five-year program will provide wireless Internet access to computers and other devices in all schools… through Meraki, a company out of San Francisco.”Â11/2/10
DIY Wireless Networks Could Rattle Industry “MerakiÂis in the thick of this market, offering a line of high-end, low-cost, enterprise-grade [APs].” 10/21/10
Enterprise Networking: Meraki Cloud WiFi Gets App Smart “Application visibility proved accessible and easy to use to enforce effective and intelligent traffic shaping rules.” 10/15/10
How Far We’ve Come Since Netstumbler “Meraki also provides a superb update to the basic stumbling model with its browser-based Wi-Fi Stumbler and Wi-Fi Mapper tools, again, at no cost and with killer feature sets.” 10/13/10
Meraki Aims for Enterprise “New application and content insight into wireless traffic grants Meraki the ability to fine-tune network performance by shaping traffic usage on specific networks, while Auto RF gives the network some self-healing capabilities with the ability to compensate against both WiFi and non-WiFi interferers.” 10/13/10
Alvin schools select Meraki’s cloud controlled WLAN “Alvin Independent School District has selected cloud-based wireless networking company Meraki’s cloud controlled WLAN to serve its 16,000 students and over 2,000 staff members.” 9/21/10
Top 10 Android Business Apps “Android Stumbler – This is a smartphone version of Meraki’s popular browser-based WiFi survey tool, WiFi Stumbler.” 8/23/10
New Traffic Shaping Feature Offers Simple Wireless QoS “Now, Meraki is using deep packet inspection to apply application and content-aware traffic shaping to the wireless LAN.” 8/19/10
QoS: Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi “Meanwhile, Meraki has added a new wireless QoS twist at the higher layers.” 8/17/10
Sag Harbor Goes Wireless “The hardware is produced by Meraki, a California company that developed wireless networks for Harvard and M.I.T.” 8/19/10
Seeing Integrated Network Management Nirvana “To whet your appetite: WLAN cloud company Meraki has added a new level of QoS — traffic shaping — to Wi-Fi networks.” 8/13/10
Meraki: Traffic Shaping, Spectral Analysis, and Cool (and Free) Tools “The WLAN cloud-management leader adds significant improvements, and gives away some software you might want to take a look at.” 8/12/10
Meraki: More Features for WiFi Cloud “Meraki today announced new management tools for its meshed network Wi-Fi products that enable, fast, reliable connectivity.” 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools to Cloud-Based Controller “Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis.” 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools to Cloud-Based Controller “Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis.” 8/11/10
Meraki’s New Features: A 1-2-3 Punch “..I was pleasantly surprised by the 1-2-3 punch of news Meraki released this morning.” 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools “Meraki has announced new cloud-based management features and tools for use with Meraki Access Points.”
Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools “Meraki’s free HeatMapper, Wi-Fi Stumbler, and Client Insight tools can help IT plan, improve and troubleshoot WLAN coverage, and diagnose Wi-Fi problems for local and remote Windows, Mac users.” 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools to Cloud-Based Controller “Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis.” 8/11/10
Meraki Boosts Cloud-Based WLAN With Traffic Control, Other New Features “Meraki has long been at the tip of the spear in cloud-based wireless networking, delivering feature parity with the industry’s top solutions providers while leaving heavyweight controllers out of the picture.” 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools to Cloud-Based Controller “Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis.” 8/11/10
Meraki Launches Traffic Shaper, Adds Auto RF to Wi-Fi Optimization Suite PC Magazine wrote about Meraki’s launch of Traffic Shaper. 8/11/10
Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools to Cloud-Based Controller “Meraki this week unveiled new management tools for its cloud-based Wi-Fi product, adding bandwidth controls, diagnostic tools and spectrum analysis.” 8/11/10
Remington College Deploys WiFi with Cloud-Based Control “After an evaluation of systems from various vendors, Meraki was chosen.” 8/9/10
Free Wi-Fi Stumbling and Surveying Tools “Here are several more Wi-Fi stumblers you might want to check out: NetSurveyor, Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector, the web-based Meraki WiFi Stumbler, and KisMAC for Apple fans.” 8/4/10
TechTalk: Wi-Fi means no ISP to pay 7/29/10
Innovating in the Cloud: Exploring Cloud Computing to Solve IT Challenges “The largest project in the I3 quadrant was our deployment of a cloud-managed 802.11n wireless network with cloud-based networking company Meraki.” Vol. 33, No. 2, 2010
iPad Guzzles Network Capacity “Meraki touts its Network Insight technology for providing network administrators with a forensics tool to analyze network activity as an aid in troubleshooting.” 6/7/10
Meraki Network Insight Technology Now Fingerprints Apple iPads “Assisting wireless network administrators in analyzing and supporting their networks, Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, has announced that its Network Insight technology now fingerprints Apple iPads.” 6/3/10
Meraki’s Network Insight Technology Now FingerPrints iPads PC Magazine writes about Meraki’s ability to distinguish Apple iPads on its networks. 6/2/10
Meraki’s Enterprise Cloud Controller offsets remote access, wireless network hardware costs “Meraki combines its business-grade 802.11n access points with a cloud-hosted controller solution, offering small and midsized businesses an enterprise-class wireless LAN (WLAN) solution without much upfront wireless network hardware and setup cost.” 5/28/10
Cloud Distribution gets into WLAN with Meraki deal “Cloud Distribution has burst into the wireless LAN (WLAN) space by signing up vendor Meraki.” 5/26/10
Meraki: Control Wi-Fi APs via the cloud 5/26/10
WiFi Stumbler Scans Local Wi-Fi to Find an Interference-Free Channel “If you’ve been having trouble with your wireless signal the culprit might be interference from other wireless routers in the area. Free web-based tool WiFi Stumbler will show you which channel is least likely to cause interference.” 5/14/10
Top Ten Free Wi-Fi Security Test Tools “Free WLAN discovery tools exist for nearly every OS, from the infamous Win32 NetStumbler to Meraki’s Java Cloud Stumbler.” 5/10/10
PC Mall Sales, Inc. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript “We also saw some strength with emerging technologies in Q1 2010 including some entries in the cloud world like Meraki a manufacturer that provides networking solutions for the cloud.” 5/6/10
How To Deploy An Open Area With Wireless “A free tool like Meraki’s WiFi Stumbler will help any environment size up neighboring wireless networks that need to be worked around by showing adjacent network names, channels in use and how strong they are being felt in your space.” 4/30/10
Apple iPad Networking Problems: Are Routers The Culprit? PC Magazine uses Meraki’s free WiFi Stumbler tool to test iPad wireless connectivity. 4/28/10
Meraki’s Free Web-Based Wi-Fi Stumbler – Pretty Cool “You can’t beat the convenience.” 4/14/10
The Best Free Software of 2010 PC Magazine lists Meraki’s WiFi Stumbler as one of the best free software tools. 3/30/10
Mesh Wi-Fi Routers for SMBs: Meraki vs. Ruckus PC Magazine compares Meraki’s WLAN solution with that of Ruckus. 3/23/10
Meraki Enhances Wireless Cloud Service Security “Meraki, which has been delivering wireless cloud services, beefed up the security features found with its Cloud Controller.” 3/10/10
15 Windows Utilities You Can’t Live Without PC Magazine lists our free WiFi Stumbler tool. 3/8/10
CSAIL upgrades wireless network to 802.11n “Wireless internet in [MIT's] CSAIL is experiencing a boost this week as 80 new Meraki 802.11n access points are being installed. The new wireless network runs at 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than it was before the upgrade.” 2/26/10
MIT Ramps Up WiFi in CSAIL Facility “Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is moving to Meraki wireless gear in its Stata Center. The Cambridge, MA institution will deploy 80 Meraki MR14 access points in “Building 32,” a simultaneously angular and curving 720,000-square foot structure that houses the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), along with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.” 2/23/10
Meraki WiFi Stumbler PC Magazine reviews our free WiFi Stumbler tool. 2/18/10
Meraki Wireless LAN Reviewed “The Cloud Controller is great for folks who don’t want to be bothered with the details and hassle of running a multi-node wireless network. Getting APs up and running really couldn’t be much easier.” 2/17/10
Meraki Brings Wi-Fi Scanning to the Browser PC Magazine writes about the launch of our new free tool, Meraki WiFi Stumbler . 2/12/10
Meraki Offers Browser-Based Wi-Fi Sniffer “The Meraki WiFi Stumbler is a browser-based tool for using your computer’s 802.11 adapter to scan the air around you and report the SSID, MAC address (BSSID), 802.11 standard (g, n, etc.), channel, signal strength, maker (if known from MAC address), and security standards used. This is the first browser-based tool that I’ve seen that replicates the functionality needed to make channel selection and siting choices.” 2/12/10
WiFi Stumbler: Runs in a Browser “Meraki has launched a new free tool, the Meraki WiFi Stumbler. It provides detailed, real-time and continuously updated information about nearby wireless networks (even those with hidden SSIDs).” 2/11/10
Manage Your WLAN from the Cloud “Meraki offers solutions for two different markets: the enterprise private network and the public network or hotspot arenas. Not only does it offer a custom cloud-based service tailored for each, but a whole hardware set as well. The Meraki OS provides the brains for the mesh networking and dynamic channel optimization, virtual network isolation, captive portal, and other network functionality.” 2/11/10
Meritorious Meraki: A Review “The Meraki slogan is ‘Wireless Networks that Simply Work,’ and they deliver on this campaign buzzphrase with exceptional simplicity. You want to deploy reliable Wi-Fi with as little expertise as possible? Meraki may be your best bet.” 1/29/10
Roaming Agreements Could Expand the Wi-Fi Renaissance “BelAir, Meraki, Tropos and Cisco will all likely continue to benefit from the buildout of carrier-quality Wi-Fi networks.” 1/29/10
Meraki Enterprise Wireless LAN PC Magazine reviews Meraki’s wireless LAN offering, awarding it with 4 stars and an Editor’s Choice award. 1/19/10
Stanford Overhauls Computer Science Wireless Network “Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA has replaced its wireless networking gear with wireless access points (APs) from Meraki in a 150,000 square foot computer science building.” 1/12/10
Cast Iron Systems and Westmont College Rapidly Integrate Cloud-Based and Private Network Applications to Simplify Fundraising “Westmont is one of the first colleges in the country to move entirely to a high-speed, wireless network. As the foundation of its cloud computing strategy, the college has installed an 802.11n wireless Meraki network to create a wireless cloud. Now, faculty, staff, students, and visitors can easily use laptop computers and mobile, Internet-based devices such as iPhones or Google Android phones anywhere on campus.” 1/12/10
Stanford University installs Meraki wireless access points “Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has installed Meraki wireless access points in the Gates Computer Science Building to provide wireless coverage for the laptops and WiFi-enabled devices in the building. Meraki said that Cisco access points (APs) had previously been deployed, but complaints about the wireless network’s reliability grew with the start of the school year. Computer Services, the IT team that supports the Gates Building, has replaced 21 Cisco APs with 15 Meraki MR14s, which are dual-radio 802.11n APs.” 12/21/09
Wireless LAN in 2010: cheaper, more robust and reliable “”We saw a beginning to that in 2009 with Aruba, Aerohive and Meraki all having a little more pricing competition,” [said Paul DeBeasi, senior analyst at Burton Group]. “We’re going to continue to see that. And the silicon vendors, their next-generation silicon will be lower power, lower cost.” 12/21/09
Wireless Networks that simply work “Alberta businesses are now on the hunt for a simple, consistent and reliable wireless network solution which is highly secure, easy to manage and most important cost effective. Bulletproof, together with our partner Meraki has the solution for you right now. We are so confident you can try us out for free.” 12/18/09
Multi-hop matters: the state of wireless mesh networking “To help us understand the state of technology, Ars talked to two experts on mesh networking: Sanjit Biswas, the CEO of mesh wireless startup Meraki Networks, and Jinyang Li, a computer science professor at NYU. Each did pioneering work on mesh networks at MIT earlier this decade, and both continue working on mesh networking technologies today.” 12/1/09
Solar energy showing signs of promise “Internet access – from sunlight. Late last year, Meraki, a provider of wireless networking solutions, developed a solar self-powered WiFi device. The Meraki “Solar” uses a solar panel and a solar-charged battery to provide Internet access in hard-to-wire areas. The units can be mounted on roofs or poles or anywhere else that receives sun exposure.” 12/1/09
Full list of product winners of fiercely contested competition “The most fiercely debated category was for the mobility/wireless product: the judges got into a lengthy argument over this before the highly inventive Meraki MR14 prevailed.” 11/27/09
As Schools Go, So Goes the Wi-Fi Nation “In a recent series of announcements, Meraki released the results of a study looking at wireless LAN usage on higher education campuses, introduced a $40-per-student “Wireless For Schools” wireless network solution for K-12 schools and districts, and announced plans to launch an iPhone-based site survey application.” 11/25/09
Westmont Makes Prestigious IT List “The college has moved specific elements of its information technology infrastructure to a cloud-centric one, migrating several systems to cloud-based services provided by Meraki, Google, Postini and Salesforce.com.” 11/24/09
The top 100 IT projects of 2009 “Westmont College transformed its IT infrastructure to a cloud-centric one, migrating several systems to cloud-based services provided by Meraki, Google, Postini, and Salesforce.com.” 11/23/09
Convergence “Initially the WiFi service was a nightmare, but after the introduction of a pair of Meraki mesh access points, I was able to boost the signal to the point where the PS3 and laptops in the living room could access video. Meraki’s hardware has proven to be excellent under poor signal conditions and simple to use.” 11/20/09
Wi-Fi LANs Connecting On Campus “A survey of 24 universities conducted by wireless networking company Meraki has revealed that higher education institutions are deploying 11n networks at a much higher rate than most other markets.” 11/18/09
Ruckus Enters Broadband Market “Ruckus must like what Meraki has been up to, as the wireless firm has launched its own ecosystem for inexpensive, Wi-Fi based wireless broadband.” 11/16/09
Critical Infrastructure in the Cloud? Absolutely! “This is the core argument against what is becoming a small-scale trend in WLAN management, which is essentially moving the management plane into the cloud. This approach first surfaced with an announcement back in May from Meraki, which, according to some interpretations, also moves elements of the control plane into the cloud as well.” 11/13/09
Colleges are Driving 802.11n Adoption: Report “According to the Meraki Higher Education Wireless Census, nearly twice as many devices surveyed on campus are 802.11n capable, compared to off-campus. The findings also revealed that of the 10,000 devices surveyed, 36 percent of on-campus devices were 802.11n capable, compared to 21 percent of off-campus devices.” 11/12/09
802.11 at School is Big Business, Says Meraki PC Magazine writes about our higher education wireless census . 11/11/09
Students twice as likely to have 802.11n devices as everyone else “A survey conducted by Meraki, a vendor of wireless mesh networking equipment, shows a dramatic increase in the use of 802.11n on campuses.” 11/10/09
PCs Still Leading Operating System On-Campus “Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, released the first-ever Meraki Higher Education Wireless Census today, and the results reveal a major increase in 802.11n adoption on campus. ” 11/10/09
Q&A with Kenneth Carnesi on the Harvard Square WiFi hotzone, what went wrong with muni WiFi and more “Although we do work with other vendors from time to time, Meraki is very often the ideal solution for the types of networks we deploy.” 11/9/09
More companies offer Wi-Fi management in the cloud: Aruba and Aerohive join Meraki “Aerohive has announced its wireless LAN management tools would be made available in the form of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) called Aerohive HiveManager Online while Aruba Networks has said that its SaaS product, AirWave OnDemand, will be available in December. These follow Meraki’s launch of its Enterprise Wireless LAN System in May.” 11/2/09
Moving Wi-Fi complexity into the cloud “Meraki was first to announce the hosted Wi-Fi control and management model for midmarket enterprises in May with the Meraki Enterprise Wireless LAN System.” 10/30/09
Moving Wi-Fi complexity into the cloud: Aerohive, AirWave join Meraki in hosted Wi-Fi services market “Both the Meraki and Aerohive SaaSs include software updates, support and maintenance.” 10/30/09
Outdoor 11n Wi-Fi gear grabs spotlight “What’s so convenient about Meraki Solar is that it sidesteps the problem of powering APs in out-of-the-way places where it’s hard to run power lines. The APs mount on roofs, walls, poles or other surfaces and power themselves via sun exposure.” 10/20/09
Motorola Launches 11n Wi-Fi Gear “The flood of 11n products ranges from devices with outdoor capabilities from firms such as Meraki Networks and Trapeze Networks to devices from companies such as Cisco and Broadcom designed to push the power of 11n into businesses.” 10/19/09
AdMob: iPhones, Android phones on the rise “Meraki, a known mesh network provider, released Tuesday its first Wireless Census for North America and the results, though dramatic, seem nothing of a surprise. Basically, there has been a huge increase in the number of wireless-capable devices, among which Apple’s handheld devices had the biggest jump.” 10/2/09
Gartner predicts 802.11n ratification will precipitate price plummet “Both Meru Networks and Meraki have introduced “cash for clunker” programs, where customers can trade in their legacy wireless LAN infrastructure and get a rebate on new 802.11n products.” 9/24/09
Aruba slashes price of 11n Wi-Fi access point “In May, Meraki entered the small/midsize enterprise market with low-priced 802.11n access points, including a two-radio model for $800.” 9/23/09
Industry Insiders: Interviews with Wi-Fi’s Leading Minds “Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, the California-based Wi-Fi networking startup which has experienced explosive growth since its founding in 2006.” 9/18/09
Meraki announces Cash for Wireless LAN Clunkers program “Meraki, the first networking vendor to bring the Wireless-N standard outdoors earlier this year, launched Wednesday its Cash for Wireless LAN Clunkers promotion campaign.” 9/9/09
Meraki Controls WLANs From The Cloud “Meraki’s new Enterprise Cloud Controller challenges the standard thin wireless model espoused by Aruba, Cisco, Meru and others by moving controller functions into the cloud.” 8/28/09
Westmont College Moves to 802.11n Wireless “Westmont has about 1,350 students and 24 major buildings on its 111-acre campus. The college decided to upgrade to an all 802.11n network for two primary reasons. First, it had experienced a significant increase in mobile Internet usage among students and faculty and expects the trend to accelerate in the coming years.” 7/30/09
Meraki scores government funds for Wi-Fi clouds “Wireless network provider Meraki announced Tuesday that its Wi-Fi access point equipment has received USDA Rural Development Acceptance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS).” 7/28/09
Anywhere Wireless Networking on a Tight Budget “When the fanfare, media coverage, national attention, and funding of a major 1:1 and wireless initiative has ended and a school district is left to pick up the pieces of its technology program single-handedly, what’s the result? In the case of North Adams Public Schools, a small district in Northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts, it quickly figures out how to expand wireless access and equipment on its own nickel across all schools, even in a time of much-diminished budgets.” 7/16/09
Meraki scores government funds for Wi-Fi clouds “‘Do more with less,’ is a catch phrase managers love to say and workers hate to hear. It’s also one we’re hearing ad nauseam in today’s economy. And just as regular Joes and Janes are tightening their belts and getting creative with the monthly budget, so too must local officials accommodate revenue streams and tax rolls that are in free fall. It also means that expensive projects like streetscape redesigns and downtown marketing efforts must be shelved while DDA directors find more cost-effective ways to move their city centers forward.” 7/30/09
Network World: WiFi cloud vendor: We charge 2-3 times less than Cisco, Aruba “For cost-conscious smaller enterprises lacking extensive IT expertise, the combination can offer dramatic savings. The lower costs are due to lower access point prices compared to Cisco, Aruba and other enterprise WLAN vendors, no stand-alone controllers, and no separate charges for maintenance and support. Meraki CEO and co-founder Sanjit Biswas says Meraki’s total price tag can be 2-3 times less than Cisco and Aruba for a 30-access point deployment.” 5/15/09
Meraki unveils new enterprise wireless networking solution “Known for offering one of the biggest wireless mesh networks for regular hot spot users and being the first that brought Wireless-N to the outdoors, Meraki on Monday showed that it can also mean serious business with its new enterprise class wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions.” 5/11/09
Meraki Brings Wireless into the Cloud “Wireless Networking vendor Meraki has introduced a solution that brings wireless networking infrastructure into the cloud and allows MSPs and solution …” 5/19/09
Meraki: Virtualizing the WLAN Switch “The adoption of virtualization solutions has been spotty in telecom and UC, but Meraki may have a winning angle by applying the concept to WLAN infrastructure. It seems to be a little late to get into the enterprise WLAN switch market, but this is the year when cost savings are going to be getting a lot of attention.” 5/11/09
Enterprise Wireless Goes into the Cloud, “The key differentiator is Meraki’s cloud-based approach to wireless networking, which, says Biswas, enables Meraki to offer “a premium-featured Wireless LAN at less than half the cost of solutions from traditional vendors.” 5/12/09
Meraki Goes Enterprise – With a Twist, “I’ve not done a full analysis of this product line yet, but the list of features is impressive, and, oh, yes, the price. Controller licenses are $300 per AP for three years, including support and maintenance. a/b/g/n APs are $499 (one radio) to $699 (two radios). That’s amazing.” 5/12/09
WiFi on a Budget “Needing to shave about 90 percent of that cost–and still come out with a viable solution–the school approached Meraki, a San Francisco-based wireless …” 5/14/09
Sandman Inn Goes Green with Solar WiFi Solution Vacationers in Santa Barbara have about a hundred different hotels to choose from. The Sandman Inn, which has existed on upper State Street for generations, needed more than just price to differentiate itself from the competition. Installing free wireless internet would appeal to a sizable number of clientele, but there was another market segment ripe for cornering at the same time: the green consumer.” 4/30/09
Bringing the Internet to low-income residents “Internet access for San Francisco residents in low-income housing is about much more than watching wacky animal videos on YouTube. It’s about the opportunity to search and train for jobs, help children with homework and stay connected to the rest of the community. “Kids without Internet access in high school are behind their peers,” says Michael McCarthy, community broadband manager for the San Francisco Department of Technology.” 4/1/09
Strategic IT Spending in the Downturn: Retain Tenants with WiFi. [click to open PDF article] “The economy is hitting landlords it takes more effort to keep vacancy rates down, and some owners are forced to offer free months’ rent, subsidized utilities, rent reductions and more just to keep bodies in their units. of retaining the tenants you have and attracting new tenants without breaking the bank.” 3/09
How Meraki Helped Wire Up Our Green:Net Conference “One of the biggest challenges of hosting Green:Net, our sold-out conference about IT and sustainable technologies, was bringing enough bandwidth to a crowd of some 400 people. We held the event at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s bucolic Presidio, surrounded by the deep blue ocean, majestic forest and equally majestic Golden Gate Bridge. It was an idyllic backdrop for an industry event aimed at those with a lot of idealism.” 3/25/09
Small NC Campuses Gain Wireless with Meraki Hardware “North Carolina’s James Sprunt Community College and Nash Community College have implemented new wireless deployments that use Meraki gear. In both cases, the colleges had small budgets and needed to outfit campuses where buildings were widely spread.” 4/23/09
Hotels Cut Costs, Go Green with Solar-Powered WiFi “Hotel guests have certain demands: cable television, a pool, or perhaps 4-star room service. Yet more likely, their primary demand is increasingly to have consistent, robust wireless internet access. Now, what if they want wireless by the pool, or in that outlying cabin surrounded by forest? What if the hotel property is in a location or country without a reliable electrical infrastructure?” 3/31/09
Networking News: Meraki Goes All In: 802.11n Triple Radio Outdoor Node Meraki has decided they’re a grown-up company, after all: Meraki started out as the little guy, with tiny $50 nodes that would self-organize into a mesh Wi-Fi network. Even as the company grew out of its origins, it still focused largely on indoor applications, where outdoor uses were an adjunct. Their new MR58, a 5 GHz triple-radio 802.11n ruggedized weatherproof outdoor node changes that entirely.” 3/12/09
San Francisco bridges the Digital Divide with Free Wifi for Low-Income Housing “AT & T has partnered with One Economy and Meraki to bring free WI-FI internet to low income communities Sunnydale Housing Authority, San Francisco’s largest low income housing project.” 3/5/09
Meraki releases triple-radio 802.11n outdoor WiFi node “Plucky Meraki, a San Francisco mesh networking startup, is stepping up to play with the big boys with the introduction of its $1,499 MR58 WiFi router. Designed for outdoor use, the MR58 has three separate 802.11n radios each of which can be used for front-end networks or backhaul, while meshing with nearby networks. Both omnidirectional and directional antennas can be separately used with each radio.” 2/24/09
Meraki Announces $1500 “N” Node “The new Meraki MR58 ($1,499) is their latest and most powerful mesh device. The three-radio, 802.11n device is designed to build high-capacity, fast, and secure networks that cover large areas.” 2/24/09
Meraki brings Wireless-N outdoors “Though Wireless-N (an 802.11n draft standard that offers throughput speeds up to 300Mbps or faster) has been used in home and small-office routers for a long time, routers for outdoor hot spots are still mostly based on the 802.11g standard that caps at 54Mbps. This is primarily because the 802.11n hasn’t been ratified yet.” 2/24/09
Meraki Launches 802.11n Access Point “Networking startup Meraki is introducing an 802.11n access point that it said will offer businesses high throughput at low costs. The MR58 is designed for outdoor use, is weatherproof, and has three radios that can be used for backhaul, front-end networking, and meshing with other networks. The access point can provide up to five times the capacity and speed of standard 802.11b/g devices. Meraki said it has incorporated beam-forming technology into the MR58 so users can get improved performance from their legacy devices.” 2/24/09
Meraki releases 802.11n outdoor mesh product “Meraki has just released a 3-radio 802.11n outdoor mesh product, the MR58, that provides more capacity and speed than 802.11b/g wireless nodes. The list price: $1500. In one bold move, Meraki has dropped the cost of outdoor Wi-Fi mesh equipment to $500 per radio. Meraki is the only outdoor mesh equipment vendor with an 802.11n product. None of the other vendors (Cisco, BelAir, Tropos and Firetide) has one.” 2/24/09
Wi-Fi Connections in Apartment Communities Can Help Retain Residents in Tough Economy “Wi-Fi is a top amenity request according to executives and operating staff of multifamily buildings, and 45 percent plan to increase spending on Wi-Fi in 2009, as they seek cost-effective ways to gain an edge in the down market, according to J. Turner Research.” 1/29/09
Meraki helping narrow digital divide “Wireless equipment maker Meraki is helping make universal broadband a reality.” 1/15/09
Meshing In the Cloud With Meraki “Wireless networking solution vendor, Meraki has started shipping a solar-powered Wi-Fi mesh device that, according to the manufacturer, will make wireless networks energy- independent.” 12/5/08
Dream of city Wi-Fi not dead, just smaller “What could be more greentech: broadband without wires, powered by the sun. Wi-Fi network startup Meraki said today it’s started selling its solar-powered Wi-Fi gear.” 12/4/08
Dream of city Wi-Fi not dead, just smaller “While the dreams of large-scale Wi-Fi networks have dissipated, San Francisco’s Meraki is pressing forward with its low-cost vision of wireless networking that just might pick up traction in this bad economy.” 11/21/08
Meshing In the Cloud With Meraki PC Magazine writes about the announcement of our Wall Plug units. 11/19/08
Plug-and-surf Wi-Fi module and solar-powered access point on tap from Meraki “Meraki has unveiled two products — one that fits into a electrical wall outlet, the other that runs without relying on an electrical grid at all — that make it even simpler to deploy its Wi-Fi mesh network. It also unveiled a promotional package to encourage fast, low-cost deployment of Meraki wireless networks in apartment complexes, hotels and similar multitenant sites.” 11/20/08
Start-up Meraki to sell solar-powered Wi-Fi gear “The company, which builds low-cost and easy-to-manage Wi-Fi gear, said the Meraki Solar Wi-Fi repeater will ship starting December 4. The price of the solar repeater costs between $749 and $1,499.” 11/19/08
WiFi goes green: solar-powered outdoor nodes coming soon“Mesh WiFi firm Meraki released an addition to its hardware family of routers today with a wall-plug adapter ($179). The Meraki Wall Plug, which features a hole to screw the unit to an outlet, complements the existing Indoor ($149) and Outdoor ($199) nodes. Meraki’s hardware includes access to (and requires use of) a hosted back-end management console.” 11/18/08
Second wind for muni WiFi? Mesh-networking startup hopes so “Municipal WiFi died in mid-2007 due to overinflated expectations, impossible city requirements, and the sheer limits of WiFi’s capabilities. Or did it? Meraki, a startup born out of a mesh-networking project at MIT, thinks that $10,000 and two months’ trial may change some cities’ minds as they grow a network organically in San Francisco” 11/17/08
Small startup has big plans for Wi-Fi “Meraki hopes to succeed where big players like Google have failed – getting towns to set up wide-area Internet networks.” 11/05
Ypsi Wireless spreads the gospel “Steve Pierce founded HDL in 1987, an Internet and web consultancy headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now living in Ypsilanti, he came to Michigan for true love; his wife moved for a job.” 10/28
Nashua frees self from Ethernet cables “There is a new, free way to surf the Web in Nashua, New Hampshire. The Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce is working to bring free Wi-Fi to the downtown area.” 7/16
WiFi Opportunities a Bright Spot for Solution Providers “Vendor Meraki has launched a new channel program for its municipal WiFi solutions which it says compete on price and ease-of-use with Cisco and Avaya.” 10/28
Meraki teams with San Francisco for free Wi-Fi “Meraki, the San Francisco company that is providing free Wi-Fi to San Franciscans, is teaming up with the city to bring free Internet access to low-income housing projects as part of its plan to unwire every neighborhood in San Francisco.” 9/08
30 under 30, America’s Coolest Young Entreprenuers “Launched as an MIT graduate student project, this rapidly expanding company uses inexpensive WiFi routers to create cheap, grassroots wireless networks in underserved regions of India, South America, and Africa.” 9/08
Public Offering “A grass-roots wireless network is flourishing in San Francisco. How was it built? Citywide public Wi-Fi networks have had a rocky history.” 7/08
Mesh Network Creates Low-Cost Muni Wi-Fi for Kentucky Town “Prestonsburg, Ky., was hardly the first city to turn to municipal Wi-Fi in hope of spurring economic growth. Like counterparts throughout the country, local leaders figured that free wireless Internet access could help them attract new businesses.” 7/17/08
Two cities bet on wireless future [paid subscription required to view]“Two Downriver cities are investing in wireless Internet networks for their business districts, betting that technology will help attract young and mobile consumers to their downtowns.” 7/4/08
Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans “Months after Earthlink gave up on providing municipal wireless service in San Francisco, a company called Meraki is quietly moving forward with its plans to blanket the entire city…” 6/3/08
A Tale of Two City Wi-Fi’s “Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different results, with one project springing up around the city and the other inching through regulatory procedures.” 6/3/08
Different sort of free Wi-Fi starts to thrive “San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that citywide wireless Internet access is slowly becoming a reality despite political infighting – and that 144,000 residents will be surfing the Web for free by the end of the year …” 6/12/08
Meraki Unwires SF’s Neediest “Even if San Francisco’s high-profile, city-wide Wi-Fi network with EarthLink and Google was a fundamental flop, residents of the city that need it the most could still get some free wireless broadband.” 6/11/08
Free Public Wi-Fi in Harvard Square “The Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) has been working in collaboration with the City of Cambridge, Harvard University, and Harvard Square Business Association members to deploy a mesh network to provide Free, Outdoor Wifi Access to the public.” 6/5/08
Meraki is offering free Wi-Fi to San Francisco. Why? “Meraki is not in the business of just blasting money out the door, which it appears to be doing in San Francisco, and there is a method to this program.” 5/15/08
The Hot Zone “Park bench or Barcalounger? For a while, it seemed as if that would soon be the biggest question for urban dwellers wanting a little Wi-Fi. Just a year ago, dozens of cities across the country” 3/21/08
Meraki Aims to Link Up a City “Meraki Inc. plans to offer free high-speed wireless Internet access throughout San Francisco this year, betting that low-cost technology and help from users will bring success where other municipal Wi-Fi projects have failed.” 1/4/08
A low-cost route to the Web “California start-up Meraki powers several thousand wireless networks across 70 countries, bringing the Internet to those who otherwise could never afford it.” 12/12/07
Meraki Mini Wins Popular Science Grand Award for Computing “With a simple $50 box, Meraki Networks hopes to spark a worldwide Wi-Fi revolution. The wireless router lets a city block, or even an entire village, share the same Internet connection.” 10/13/07
Community Wi-Fi Comes to San Francisco “This is really just a showcase to prove that grassroots groups can provide free Wi-Fi, And it’s an approach that gets a network up in a weekend rather than waiting months.” 8/14/07
Grassroots Wi-Fi Movement Spreads Around San Francisco “A grassroots movement is taking hold in San Francisco to do what the city hasn’t been able to do – provide free Wi-Fi internet connections to entire neighborhoods.” 8/15/07
MIT Technology Review A Free Mesh Network for San Francisco “Their mission is a good fit with the mission of our team: to promote competition in the Internet access space,” says Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager at Google’s Alternative Access Team. “It’s about getting more people online, giving them more choices.” 8/16/07
San Fran Finally Gets Free WiFiâ€â€ÂBut Not the Kind You’re Thinking “You can think of mesh networks as the next step after WiFi. Today, there are tens of thousands of WiFi hotspots around the world. But each one extends broadband Internet access no more than a few hundred feet. A mesh network ties these WiFi routers to each other to create a bigger network that can cover a neighborhood or even an entire city.” 06/2007
Meraki raises $5M to “connect the next billion people” “Want a dirt cheap Internet connection for everyone in your apartment building? Meraki Networks offers a way.” 2/4/07
Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers “An intriguingly inexpensive alternative has appeared: a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer. It relies not on $3,500 radio transmitters perched on street lamps by professional installers but instead on $50 boxes that serve, depending upon population density, more than one household and can be installed by anyone with the ease of plugging in a toaster.” 2/4/07
