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The Cisco Meraki MS420 is the world’s first cloud-managed 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation switch bringing the benefits of the cloud: simplified management, reduced complexity, network wide visibility and control, and lower cost for campus deployments.
A FRESH APPROACH
Meraki switches are built from the ground up to be easy to manage without compromising any of the power and flexibility traditionally found in enterprise-class switches.
Cisco Meraki switches are managed through an elegant, intuitive cloud interface, rather than a cryptic command line. To bring up a Meraki switch, just plug it in; there’s no need for complicated configuration files, or even direct physical access to the switch.
Meraki’s centralized management gives administrators deep visibility into the network and how it’s used. See which switches are near capacity across hundreds of sites. Find all configuration changes made by anyone with instant search.
INDUSTRY-BEST CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Cloud management has a number of benefits
that make it easier to build any size network:
• Single pane of glass management of distributed
switch deployments, wireless APs, and firewalls
across multiple sites through the browser
• Virtual stacking: manage up to thousands of
ports from a single pane of glass
• Layer 7 visibility with operating system, client,
and hostname fingerprinting
• Powerful Live Tools such as packet capture and
cable test to isolate network issues
• Alerts power loss, downtime, or configuration
changes
• Role-based administration and automatic,
scheduled firmware upgrades over the web
• Regular feature updates and enhancements
delivered on demand from the Meraki cloud
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Layer 7 Visibility
Layer 7 visibility, previously available only through costly overlay appliances, is included in Cisco Meraki switches at no additional cost. Hundreds of applications are automatically identified and reported, from business apps to BitTorrent and YouTube.
Packet processing engine
A modular and flexible packet processing engine delivers consistent, high-performance application traffic analysis within product families and across product lines.
Deep packet inspection
Going far beyond IP addresses, hostnames, and ports, Layer 7 deep packet inspection uses heuristics-based identification to classify traffic based on application, even identifying evasive, dynamic, and encapsulated apps.
Cloud-based application signatures
The Meraki cloud-based application signature database is constantly identifying new, changing applications without requiring the download and installtion of software updates.
Stacking
Cloud configuration ensures management isn't a laborious task when switches are geographically dispersed. Bulk configuration changes, updates, and troubleshooting are done seamlessly through a single dashboard, even for large groups of switches.
Scalable management architecture
means there are no expensive feature or support licenses to pay for and no requirement for proprietary cables either.
Stack switches physically or virtually
Switches can be managed and grouped together into virtual stacks using tags, or even managed all at once.
Zero-touch deployments
Leverage the power of centralized cloud management to pre-stage switches and virtual stacks before they are even deployed.
Voice Optimization
Cisco Meraki switches include all the features needed to easily deploy business-grade voice over IP telephony in next to no time.
Network Topology
Network topology helps IT admins
quickly see and troubleshoot
connections at a glance, and it’s
built right into the MS dashboard.
Intelligent mapping of
physical links
Network topology automatically
maps network architectures,
showing how Meraki security,
switching, and wireless devices
are connected—including
redundant links disabled by the
Spanning Tree Protocol to
prevent data loops.
Dynamic device searching
Quickly zero in on the devices that matter by using the dynamic search tools available in the topology dashboard view.
Usage statistics and status
See at a glance where trouble lies on your network: devices displayed in the topology view are color-coded based on connectivity health.
Layer 3 Scalability
Meraki switches simplify expansion, reduce congestion, and provide redundancy for critical environments.
Scalable Routing Architecture
Our graphical implementation of OSPF reduces the chance of error due to manual setup since there is no need to remember complex command lines or fret about a mistype.
Optimized, Secure Traffic Flow
OSPF’s routing algorithm automatically factors link costs (such as link bandwidth and availability) to calculate optimal pathways for routing packets from point A to point B.
High Availability
Redundancy is a key part of the Meraki MS layer 3 implementation. If a switch hosting DHCP service fails over to a warm spare, DHCP service will seamlessly transition to the backup switch.
Enterprise Security
Protecting your wired network is vital and so Cisco Meraki switches employ several security features to lock down ports and communications across the network.
Remote Live Tools
Cisco Meraki switches include a range of management features designed to keep an Ethernet network running smoothly and helping to avoid costly site visits.
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Full Enterprise Feature Set
Meraki switches include all of the traditional Ethernet features found on the highest end products, including:
• Quality-of-Service to prioritize mission critical traffic such as voice and video
• IEEE 802.1X support for post based network access control
• MAC-based RADIUS auth and MAC whitelisting
• Voice VLAN suppoer for simplified VoIP deployments
• Port Mirroring to monitor network traffic
• DHCP snooping to prevent users from adding unauthorized DHCP servers on
the network
• IGMP Snooping to optimize network performance with multicast traffic
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for high-capacity trunking, stacking,
and increased availability
• Rapid spanning tree, BPDU guard, root guard, and other safeguards to help
prevent misconfigurations and reduce convergence time
• Multiple administrative roles with sophisticated security policy management
Enterprise-Class Hardware
Meraki switches feature high-end hardware
and exceptional features, including:
• Four built-in small form-factor pluggable SFP+
ports (two SFP ports for MS220-8/P)
• GbE and 10 GbE uplink ports for high-speed
connectivity to aggregation layer switches or
other upstream devices
• Wire-speed switch fabric (up to 176 Gbps) and
QoS queues per port for converged voice,
video, and data deployments
• High performance 160Gbps stacking
bandwidth (MS350)
• Low power consumption, quiet acoustic
designs, and shallow rack depth options,
enabling flexible deployment in wiring closets
as well as offices and classrooms
• Fanless design on select models
• Up to 740 watt PoE budget with PoE+ support
for powering APs, phones, cameras, and other
PoE enabled devices (124W for MS220-8/P)
• Lifetime hardware warranty and advanced
replacement at no additional cost
• Field-replaceable, hot-swappable power
supplies and fans. RPS option for mission
critical applications
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Custom-designed real time tunnel
and seamless high-availability
Real-Time Cloud Management
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Meraki's patented real time communication protocols enable administrators to manage networks from the cloud, without sacrificing control and responsiveness. Meraki has developed a purpose-built protocol that delivers rich bi-directional information securely, with minimal bandwidth overhead.
Meraki devices — wireless APs, switches, and security appliances — provide a rich stream of real time information to the Meraki cloud. This communication is key to the extensive visibility and control afforded by the Meraki platform. Instead of burdening the network with high overhead, poor responsiveness, and complex configuration, Meraki engineers developed and patented a lightweight, secure, zero-configuration control tunnel that provides rich real-time data without compromising efficiency.
The award-winning Meraki cloud management architecture provides powerful and intuitive centralized management, while eliminating the cost and complexity of traditional on-site wireless controllers. Seamlessly manage campus-wide WiFi deployments and distributed multi-site networks with zero-touch access point provisioning, network-wide visibility and control, cloud-based RF optimization, seamless firmware updates and more. With an intuitive browser interface, Meraki WLANs configure in minutes without training or dedicated staff.
Adding new sites to a network takes minutes, not hours or days, and there's no need to train additional staff to monitor or manage the remote networks. Meraki devices self-provision, enabling large campus and multi-site deployments without on-site IT.
Meraki's control tunnel supports seamless high availability. Every Meraki network is backed by at least three independent datacenters, and the management tunnel between Meraki devices and the cloud automatically connects to the right datacenters, handling failover seamlessly.
By providing a complete,
powerful set of management
functions over the web,
Meraki’s cloud-based management eliminates the need for proprietary command line configuration interfaces which require expensive and time consuming certifications.
The Cisco Meraki MS brings the benefits of the cloud to networks of all sizes: simplified management, reduced complexity, network wide visibility and control, with lower operational cost for campus and branch deployments. Cisco Meraki access switching is available in both Layer 2 and powerful Layer 3 models. Mission-critical features — like deep, Layer 7 application visibility, network topology, virtual stacking, QoS for business critical applications, 802.1X access control, and more — are present in all models.
The Meraki MS family also includes several remote diagnostic features, from network connectivity and cable integrity tests to latency measurement tools. For deep client troubleshooting, administrators can even perform per-port remote pcap packet captures without any additional probes or hardware on site.
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