Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion 59
UnanimousCoward writes "Several outlets are reporting Cisco's intent to acquire Meraki for $1.2 billion. From the article: 'Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, says it is buying Meraki Networks of San Francisco for around $1.2 billion in cash. The news of the deal leaked on Twitter, when Cisco accidentally posted the news on its blog and swiftly removed it, but it was too late. Cisco is hoping to focus on smaller and medium-sized campuses with Meraki and its products.'"
Accidental Post? (Score:3, Informative)
Meraki: Kings of bait and switch (Score:4, Informative)
Since there's been news of predatory and exaggerated pricing by Cisco recently: http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=cisco+pricing [slashdot.org] they'll make great partners. I'm not taking anything at all from either of them.
Re:Bad summary (Score:5, Informative)
"they are a crappy Internet proxy service for "open wifi" where none of your traffic is encrypted but still requires a user-name and password."
This is inaccurate. It all depends on how you configure your network. You can have encryption, RADIUS authentication, MAC whitelist/blacklist whatever.
" oh and it has stupid site balcklists (well that might be the local admin) "
No "might be" about it. Nothing is blocked by default.
"while not stopping or slowing down torrents which is one of the reasons they started using it"
Then they have a configuration problem. We have no problem doing this for one of our networks.
They *are* crappy, but only because their hardware is absurdly expensive for the speeds it provides. Ubiquiti's Unifi is much better performance/price. Their controller software isn't as advanced though.
Re:Bad summary (Score:4, Informative)
They do mesh networking, and remote management. So you buy a bunch of their boxes, hang them all over the place, hardwire them to your network where you can, rely on the mesh where you can't hardwire them. They form a mesh, which you manage from a web site Meraki runs. It's not a bad system for running a wifi infrastructure, if you don't mind the monthly fees and the somewhat underpowered routers.
Re:Bad summary (Score:4, Informative)