Chair: Rolly Trice, deputy network operations director, Jisc Cloud-managed IT in higher education Speaker: Tony Carmichael, product marketing manager, Cisco Meraki. From lecture halls to the halls of residence, Meraki products are designed to deliver a campus-wide network that is powerful, reliable, and refreshingly easy to manage. During this session, learn how Meraki's cloud-managed solutions can help deliver best-in-class wireless, switching and security.

1. Cisco Meraki
Chair: Rolly Trice

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3. Meraki for Higher Education
IT FOR THE CONNECTED CAMPUS

4. Overview
• About Cisco Meraki
• Meraki in Higher Education
• Product Demo
• Solutions
• Integrations & APIs
Meraki for Higher Education

5. About Cisco Meraki

6. Who we are and what we do
A complete, powerful, and intuitive cloud-managed IT solution
Wireless | Security | Switching | Communications | Enterprise Mobility | Security Cameras
NETWORKING IS COMPLICATED.
WE’RE MAKING IT EASIER, FASTER, AND SMARTER.
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Our products are used in over 900,000 networks worldwide; you’ll find
them in lecture halls, hospitals, retail stores and hotel rooms. Better
networking means that businesses run more smoothly, and more people
have reliable access to the information they need.

7. Out of band cloud management
Intuitive
Simple browser-based dashboard
Cloud hosted centralized management platform
Scalable
Unlimited throughput, no bottlenecks
Add devices or sites in minutes
Reliable
Highly available cloud with multiple datacenters
Network functions even if connection to cloud is interrupted
99.99% uptime SLA
Secure
No user traffic passes through cloud
Fully HIPAA / PCI compliant (level 1 certified)
3rd party security audits, daily penetration testing
Automatic firmware and security updates (user-scheduled)
Reliability and security information at meraki.cisco.com/trust

8. Meraki in Higher Education

9. Our value proposition for higher education
High Density WiFi Security Center Captive portal
Retail• Connectivity everywhere
• Network & physical security
• Traffic Filtering
• Visibility & Reporting
• Student experiences
Port Security Automation & APIs Logging & Analytics
Address key business challenges with focused, powerful, and turnkey solutions:

10. Live Demo

11. Meraki For Higher Education
High-density wireless without the high maintenance
Meraki offers a complete IT platform in one tightly integrated solution:
Keep students and faculty safe with options ranging
from perimeter network security to physical campus
security
Built-in tools to help deliver Best-in-class IT
Powerful APIs to make creating student experiences a
reality

12. High Density Wireless Without the High Maintenance
Meraki access points are designed to deliver superior performance in the highest density wireless
environments such as auditoriums and lecture halls — without the bottleneck of hardware controllers.
Crowd-proficient WiFi that self-heals and
provides detailed RF usage reporting
Support any student device without compromising
network performance or security.

13. Automation through integrated cloud logging, anomaly
detection and alerting streamlines troubleshooting tasks,
accelerating time to resolution
A centralized, always available dashboard enables large
institutions to scale elastically
Tools That Help Deliver Best-In-Class IT
Manage a broad and demanding network with a simple, intuitive dashboard that supports real-time
collaboration and role-based access so the entire team can work together to deliver an amazing
experience.
Troubleshooting – Cable Test

14. Solutions that Help Keep Students and Faculty Safe
Protect users, services, and the physical campus by unifying security and network management across
all layers of a deployment
Protect the network and its users all through one intuitive interface:
Trace from connected clients to an access point to a switch port
in one fluid motion.
Enable threat protection at the flip of a switch and block
unwanted software before it ever reaches the network.
Thwart suspicious activity such as SSID spoofing with built-in
intrusion detection and an always-on scanning radio.
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15. Create Experiences with Powerful APIs
Coupled with technology partners, Meraki can deliver solutions to create unique and powerful student
experiences
With Meraki’s APIs, customers and technology partners
can leverage Meraki to connect students and deliver new,
helpful and powerful experiences
WayfindingSocial Engagement
Student Safety
Student Resources
Events Academic support
Re-defining the student experience

16. Meraki Products & Solutions

17. Our products – A complete IT Platform
All Cisco Meraki devices are centrally and securely managed from the cloud using a single web-
based dashboard. Our feature-rich, intuitive architecture enables customers to save time, reduce
operating costs, and solve new business challenges
End-to-end
visibility & control
End-to-end reporting
& analytics
Automatic network
topology mapping
Sentry policies for
granular control

18. Reducing time-to-resolution and adding intelligence
Fast, reliable and secure network connectivity — from the classroom to the halls of residence
MS Switch
MR Access Point
Dynamic topology, built-in alerting
& cable testing
MC IP Phone
MV Security Camera
• No Network Video Controllers (NVRs)
• No Video Management Software (VMS)
• No WLAN controllers
• Eduroam support
• Granular RF controls
• Bluetooth BLE without batteries
Systems Manager
Enterprise Mobility Management
• Mobile devices and PCs
• Provision apps & content
• Device network policies
• Cisco ISE compatible
MX Security Appliance
• No phone-specific switches
• No PBX
• Anomaly detection
• Integrated port security
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19. Meraki APIs & Programmatic orchestration
Provisioning API Location Analytics API Captive Portal API

20. API customer example
Meraki Location API
• Device X,Y coordinates with up to 5m
accuracy
• Network connectivity and device status
• Real-time user location tracking
device identifier
device location
coordinates
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21. Case Study – High Density Campus
Based in Towson, Maryland
• 287 Acre campus
• 2,400 students
• Residence Halls
Full campus with Meraki
Wireless, Switching and
Security Appliances
1,000+ Access points & switches worldwide
4K average clients per day
40TB of network throughput per week

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23. Thank you
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