Meraki is still running their current Promotional Pricing offers such as the Meraki Remote Workforce promo on the MX range of Security Appliances as well as the Meraki Ed-Vantage promo pricing for Independent Schools and Not-For-Profits which has been extended until May 1st 2021.
Contact us to take advantage of these offers or for any other special pricing requests or quotes you require - we are happy to help!
Meraki is now making the transition to their Wi-Fi 6 Access Points with the End-of-life of the older APs announced recently - we will see these progressively phased out until around mid-year 2021.
Wi-fi 6 offers several new improvements to make it the highest performing set of wireless protocols ever developed. Not only will Wi-Fi 6 boost overall performance, but it is designed to perform efficiently in real-world scenarios and support increased client density.
Wi-Fi 6's performance exceeds 802.11ac Wave 2 by over 3-4 times, and supports higher density with more efficient airtime, which provides for a higher scale of client devices, and significant battery saving. As the number of clients increase, Wi-Fi 6 will be able to sustain far more consistent data throughput than previous 802.11n and 802.11ac amendments.
The next several years will see a 50% increase in networked devices per person, resulting in an average of 3.6 connected devices per person. As device counts increase, users are also expecting a more rich and seamless wireless experience. WiFi6 can deliver that!
In the last three months, Wi-Fi 6 shipments have nearly doubled as customers embrace enhanced performance. Wi-Fi 6 will allow you to modernise your network and be ready for a world that will see a 300% increase in mobile device speeds by 2023.
Let us help you make the transition to WiFi 6!
Check out the Meraki MR36-HW as the replacement to the Meraki MR33-HW as a starting point and there are also new outdoor models starting with the Meraki MR76-HW.
The following products, which are functionally equivalent, will replace the above products:
We expect to be accepting final orders for this product through July 21st, 2021. However, the final date will depend on the availability of stock and, at Cisco Meraki's discretion, the actual end-of-sale date may be earlier than July 21st, 2021. End-of-Support date for this product will be July 21st, 2026.
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Cisco Meraki is announcing the upcoming end-of-sale for the following products:
They have been replaced with the following products which are functionally equivalent:
They expect to be accepting final orders for this product through December 22nd, 2020. However, the final date will depend on the availability of stock and, at Cisco Meraki's discretion, the actual end-of-sale date may be earlier than December 22nd, 2020. End-of-Support date for this product will be December 22nd, 2027.
Cisco Meraki is announcing the upcoming end-of-sale for the following products:
They expect to be accepting final orders for this product through August 25th, 2020. However, the final date will depend on the availability of stock and, at Cisco Meraki's discretion, the actual end-of-sale date may be earlier than August 25th, 2020. End-of-Support date for this product will be August 25th, 2027
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There are two ways that the Cisco Umbrella DNS service can be integrated with a Cisco Meraki network.
1) Meraki MX Integration with an existing (or new) Cisco Umbrella DNS subscription
2) Meraki MR Advanced + Upgrade Licences with Cisco Umbrella integration
1) Meraki MX
Integrating the Meraki dashboard and Umbrella DNS allows clients connected behind Meraki security appliances or access points to have their DNS traffic filtered through Cisco's Umbrella DNS service.
This integration allows administrators to easily apply and modify DNS-based filtering rules to multiple groups of clients on their network by simply assigning a filtering policy to a specific Meraki group policy or SSID.
Once assigned, all DNS requests from clients included under that policy will be automatically redirected to Cisco's Umbrella DNS service where it will be checked against the appropriate policy configured for the Network Device in the Umbrella dashboard.
There are specific instructions on how to Integrate the MX with an Umbrella subscription and this requires a specific firmware version on the MX. For more information see you can read about it here.
Reach out to us if you'd like a quote for a Cisco Umbrella Subscription that you can use with your Meraki MX Security Appliance, its a relatively inexpensive way to easily improve the security of your network and a must have in today's world!
2) Meraki MR
The Meraki MR Advanced + Upgrade Licenses with Cisco Umbrella integration enables Meraki administrators to assign predefined Umbrella content filtering and security policies to an SSID or Group Policy directly from the dashboard and removes the need to integrate with an existing Umbrella dashboard or Umbrella account.
Once Umbrella policies are assigned, all DNS requests from wireless clients will be intercepted by the upstream MR access point and redirected to Cisco's Umbrella DNS resolvers for evaluation. That DNS lookup either resolves successfully, allowing the client to connect to the requested web page, or gets blocked which redirects the client to an Umbrella block page.
In order to use the new MR Advanced & Upgrade Licence Umbrella integration the following prerequisites have to be met:
The organisation where the integration will be used must have the Meraki Per-Device Licensing (PDL) model enabled.
Each network using the integration must have a valid MR Advanced or MR Upgrade + device (Enterprise) licence assigned for every access point.
All access points in the dashboard network must be running MR 26.1+ firmware.
There are two types of MR licences that can enable the Meraki Umbrella integration: MR Advanced and MR Upgrade licence.