Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides wireless, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2012.[1]
History
Meraki was founded by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket[2], along with Hans Robertson. The company was based in part on the MIT Roofnet project, an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Meraki was funded by Google and Sequoia Capital. The organization started in Mountain View, California, in 2006, before relocating to San Francisco. Meraki employed people who worked on the MIT Roofnet project.[3][4][5]
On November 18, 2012, Cisco Systems announced it would acquire Meraki for an estimated $1.2 billion.[1]
Customer data loss incident
On August 3, 2017, the engineering team made changes to the North American object storage service; the change caused some deletion of customer data. Cisco stated that the change was due to the application of "an erroneous policy". The data loss mostly affected media files uploaded by customers. Lost data included:
On August 7 Meraki announced that some data on the cache service could be recovered. On August 9 customers were informed that recovery efforts were still underway but that they "do not expect to be able to recover most assets".[6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Systems Manager – Custom enterprise apps and contact images.
- Meraki Communications – IVR audio files, hold music, contact images and VM greetings.
- Wireless Device Dashboard – Custom floor plans, device placement photos, custom logos used for interface branding and reports and custom splash themes.
Products
Switches (MS)
Security Appliances (MX)
See also
- Cisco Systems
- List of networking hardware vendors
External links
References
- Josh Constine. Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash TechCrunch, 18 November 2012, retrieved 2016-11-17^
- Samsara Samsara, retrieved 2026-03-08^
- Sequoia – Companies Sequoia Capital, retrieved 2016-11-17^
- Katie Fehrenbacher. Meraki Cooks Up Wireless Mesh Router gigaom.com, 2006-08-02, retrieved 2016-11-17^
- Dan Goodin. Google-Funded startup to offer free WiFi in San Francisco The Register, 15 August 2007, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- North American Object Storage Service Impact Cisco Meraki, 4 August 2017, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- Cisco Meraki suffers data loss caused by human error The Stack, 7 August 2017, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- Zach Marzouk. Cisco Meraki loses customer data in engineering gaffe CloudPro, 7 August 2017, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- Jessica Lyons Hardcastle. Cisco Meraki Data Loss Reveals Need for Oversight SDX Central, 7 August 2017, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- Simon Sharwood. Cisco loses customer data in Meraki cloud muckup The Register, 6 August 2017, retrieved 10 April 2019^
- North American Object Storage Service Impact (8-4-2017) Cisco Meraki Documentation, 5 October 2020, retrieved 2024-05-29^
- Meraki MS Series Switches Family Datasheet Meraki MS Series Switches Family Datasheet, 17 May 2021, retrieved 17 May 2021^
- Cisco Meraki Z1 Datasheet Cisco Meraki, retrieved 23 May 2020^
- Meraki Z-Series Datasheet Cisco Meraki, retrieved 23 May 2020^
- Z4 Datasheet Cisco Meraki, 18 May 2023, retrieved 11 Feb 2025^
- MX Cloud Managed Security Appliance Series Datasheet Cisco Meraki, retrieved 23 May 2020^
- Meraki MX Cloud-Managed Security and SD-WAN Datasheet Cisco Meraki, retrieved 23 May 2020^