From crowded lecture halls and dormitories to satellite campuses, the Cisco Meraki cloud networking solution was built for the demands of higher education

• High-performing wireless access points are optimized for dense lecture halls and campus-wide deployments

• The Meraki solution is iPad ready, with complete visibility and control over users and mobile devices

• Application management is built in: block unwanted BitTorrent, limit YouTube, and prioritize educational apps

• Connect and manage satellite campuses with cloud managed security appliances

• With intuitive cloud-based management and self provisioning, self-optimizing, and self-healing hardware, the Meraki soluton is easy to deploy and manage without training or dedicated staff

• Secure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile devices, Macs and PCs from the cloud with integrated MDM

• The Meraki cloud architecture enables cost savings over traditional solutions by eliminating hardware-based WiFi controllers

Stanford University deploys reliable WiFi to support techie students, robots, and crowded lecture halls.

Hundreds of educational institutions rely on Cisco Meraki

CisCo Meraki for HiGHer eDUCaTioN

100% Cloud Managed WiFi, Switching, Security, & MDM

Evaluations available at meraki.cisco.com/eval

Cisco Meraki for Higher Education

Cloud-based management is easy to use, and provides complete visibility and control without training or dedicated staff

Centralized management without controllers

• Built for rapid campus-wide deployments

• Simple centralized management, no training or dedicated staff required

• Wireless APs serve 100+ users each

• Extra memory and CPU for campus workloads

Identify unique users, iPads, and other devices

• Control bandwidth usage by application

• Locate clients with Google Maps integration

• View auto-generated reports

Mobile device management

• Distinct policies for students, faculty, and staff

• Limit BitTorrent, Netflix, etc.

• Manage users and devices

• Centrally manage Macs, PCs, and mobile devices

• Deploy applications and updates with one click

• Enforce device security and restrictions

• Scales to thousands of devices

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Case Study: Westmont College, the All-Wireless Campus

• 1,100 students and 300 faculty members on Southern California campus need constant connectivity, indoors and out

• Westmont College replaced 272 Aruba access points that covered only residences and dining areas with 270 Meraki APs that blanket all 111 acres of the campus

• IT staff uses Meraki cloud-based management to troubleshoot and solve students’ connectivity issues over the web, without specialized training

• Westmont also uses Meraki security appliances to manage and connect satellite campuses

• Over 90% of all network traffic is now wireless

“Based on cost comparisons that Westmont conducted,

the existing network is anywhere from 25% to 45% less

capital cost to implement.”

- Chris Silva, Forrester Research

“Meraki is one of the best technology decisions I’ve

made in over 30 years.”

- Read Sheard, CIO, Westmont College

Surviving the iPad crush

Apple iPads are taking campuses by storm. But with the right tools, iPads need not burden IT. The Meraki solution provides a complete portfolio to create a simple, reliable, and secure environment for iPads:

• 802.11ac wireless APs are designed for heavy tablet usage

• Built-in stateful firewall segregates and restricts network access from unauthorized devices

• Device-based policies automatically apply VLAN tags, bandwidth limits, firewall rules, and more to iPads

• Self-configuring, high performance mesh connects wireless-only devices in hard to wire areas, including outdoors

• Built-in NAC and device management provides complete control of heterogeneous client environments

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100% Cloud Managed Networking Product Family

Award Winning Cloud Management Architecture

• Network-wide visibility and control

• No on-site controller hardware

• Automatic monitoring and alerts

• Seamless over-the-web upgrades

• Scales to networks of all sizes

“I haven’t had to think about

one of our major network

environments—and that

says a lot.”

–Lee Badman, Network

Engineer, Syracuse University

“Meraki has the feature set,

and they have a system

that’s really intuitive and

easy to manage.”

–Jack Costanza, Assistant Director,

M.I.T. CSAIL

“We are getting more services

and features for dramatically

less money. It’s hard to

imagine a better solution.”

–Dr. Mark Koan, Dean of I.T.,

Phoenix College

“We were immediately

impressed with the Meraki

solution and how we could

manage everything through it.”

–Chuck Faraj, CIO,

Remington College

To try Cisco Meraki on your campus, visit meraki.cisco.com/eval

802.11ac Wireless LANSupports 100+ users per AP for 1:1 classroom deployments

Access SwitchesCentrally managed Ethernet switches designed for performance and reliability

Security AppliancesFeature rich security and networking, including CIPA compliant content filtering

Mobile Device ManagementCentrally manage mobile devices, Macs, and PCs from over the web

Stanford University photograph courtesy of Kazuhisa Otsubo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cytech/4112089298).

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