The platform serves as the cloud-first foundation for your entire network infrastructure. It provides a centralized and unified solution for monitoring, managing, and optimizing your network, along with security features to protect your data and devices.
Here are some key components and features of the platform:
- Meraki Dashboard: The Meraki Dashboard is the central hub for network management. It offers a user-friendly interface that allows you to monitor the health and performance of your network in real-time. From the dashboard, you can configure devices, view network statistics, and troubleshoot issues.
- SASE (Secure Access Service Edge): This component of the platform integrates networking and security functions. It converges networking and security stacks to provide a unified and secure network experience. SASE helps protect your network from threats and vulnerabilities while ensuring optimal performance.
Access Products:
Under the platform’s access products category, you’ll find solutions related to wireless connectivity, switching, and mobile device management.
These products are designed to enhance connectivity and device management within your network:
- Wireless: This includes wireless access points and technology that enables seamless and high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity for your devices, ensuring that users have reliable wireless access throughout your network.
- Switching: Switching products provide the backbone of your wired network infrastructure, facilitating the connection of devices via Ethernet cables. They offer various features to manage and optimize network traffic.
- Mobile Device Management: This component focuses on managing and securing mobile devices within your network, allowing you to enforce policies, update software, and protect sensitive data on mobile devices.
IoT Products:
The IoT (Internet of Things) product category includes smart cameras and sensors designed to enhance your network’s capabilities:
- Smart Cameras: These cameras are equipped with advanced features such as remote monitoring, analytics, and integrations with the Meraki Dashboard. They are ideal for surveillance and security applications.
- Sensors: Sensors provide data and insights into various environmental factors and conditions. They can be used for applications like monitoring temperature, humidity, and occupancy.
Secure SD-WAN Products:
The Secure SD-WAN product category focuses on security and software-defined wide area networking.
It includes features that help protect your network and ensure efficient data transmission:
- Security and SD-WAN: This component combines security features with SD-WAN capabilities to safeguard your network from threats while optimizing network traffic and connectivity.
- Hybrid Cloud: The hybrid cloud solution allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based resources while maintaining security and performance.
- Unified SASE: Unified SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) brings together security and networking into a single, unified framework to provide comprehensive protection and efficient network access.
- Cellular Gateways: Cellular gateways offer backup connectivity options via cellular networks, ensuring network continuity in case of primary connection failures.
The platform’s components and products are designed to create a cloud-centric and secure network environment, allowing organizations to efficiently manage their networks, protect against threats, and enable IoT capabilities. Whether it’s wireless connectivity, switching, security, or IoT, the platform provides a comprehensive solution for modern network infrastructure needs.