Cisco Meraki,
(a brief overview)
(only the monitoring part)
Mikael Velschow, Solution Architect,
Network, Security & Infrastructure,
NSI Solution Sales, Netdesign / TDC Erhverv
”Who am I ?”
• Mikael Velschow-Rasmussen
• A sales-person today  …
• But previously:
• Technical Network Consulting
• Teaching (+5 yrs Official Cisco courses (CCSI), + Various workshops)
• +20 yrs Networking, +15 yrs Security
• Presales, IT Network Infrastructure
• Datacenter, Borderless, LAN/WAN/WLAN,
• Enterprise/Public/SMB
• Education
• M.Sc.E.E., Cisco CCIE#9973 (routing/switching)
• HP MASE, SANS GCFW#0565
”A ‘Cloud’ control-plane Solution”
• Meraki is (will probably be) a:
• ”Big Data / Analytics” thing (see next slide),
• and a Cloud Solution for the control-plane of switches, firewalls & AP’s
• 3 talking points
• Retail
• (Forretningskæder)
• Hospitality
• (hoteller,
sundhedsvæsen, etc.)
• Ease-of-Management
• (deployment, roll-out)
”A ‘Cloud’ CMX Monitoring Solution”
• CMX, Hotspot 2.0 & BLE
• ”Connected Mobile
eXperience”
• (ie. Location Analytics)
• “provide seamless automatic
Wi-Fi authentication and
handoff”
• ”Bluetooth Low Energy &
Beacons”
• Beacons and
Probes
• Meraki sends all
data to the ’Cloud’,
• (ie. Location
Services)
• (while also servicing
associated clients)
”Cisco Meraki Data-traffic Monitoring”
• Integration to Cisco ISE & Cisco Prime
• Organization: Branding , MDM,
• Apps & SW Inventory
• Switches, AP’s & FW’s
• Traffic Analytics
• Clients, AP’s, OS’s
• Traffic analytics tab on the dashboard
• Logic and distributed algorithm where new elements are dynamically added.
• Classify traffic more granular than standard methods
• Compare to static signatures and heuristics, (eg. Cisco NBAR, AVC and eg.
PAN)
• The classification work (CPU & RAM) is done on the devices (AP, Switch, FW)
Cisco Meraki Traffic Analytics
Demo