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High Density, High Capacity Network Design with Cisco Meraki Wireless

Agenda

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• About Cisco Meraki

• High Density: what it is, why it matters

• What’s new in Meraki’s portfolio for high density

• Live demo: best practices with Meraki

• Recap

• Q & A

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Who are we and what do we do?

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Simplifying across IT with cloud management

A complete cloud managed IT solution

Wireless, switching, security, SD-WAN, communications, Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), and security cameras

Integrated hardware, software, and cloud services

Leader in cloud-managed IT

Among Cisco’s fastest growing portfolios

250k+Unique

customers

3.5M+Meraki devices

online

5.5M+Active Meraki

dashboard users

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Easiest solution to deploy, manage, and maintain

● Plug-and-play deployment, scale rapidly

● Manage your networks from anywhere

● Centralized, end-to-end visibility and control

● Actionable insights from embedded analytics

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Rapid feature velocity

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High density challenges

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What is high density? Why does it matter?

30+concurrent wireless clients per AP

Need more APs today to service the same

number of end users as yesterday.

(And the number of end users is rapidly growing!)

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Yesterday’s coverage with today’s capacity needs

Pfeiffer University WiZink Center

Classrooms, auditoriums, lecture halls

● Laptop + smartphone per student or

1:1 ipad initiatives

● Classroom collaboration

● Interactive video education

● Crowded arenas → noisy RF floor

● Fan / vendor engagement

● Next-gen, location-aware experiences

Stadiums, arenas

Meraki Office (SF)

● Voice-over-WiFi

● Video conferencing / Telepresence

● Large conference rooms

● 2-3 devices per employee

Wireless enterprise campus

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High density, high complexity

Technical challenges

Half-duplex halves performance of each active client

Finite number of non-overlapping channels limits usable spectrum

RF is an unbounded medium, so can’t control signal pathways or collisions

Additional SSIDs add RF overhead, contribute to interference

Sticky clients can ruin the experience for all

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Meraki’s high density journey

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Shiny, new things to help

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New indoor APs with smart external antennas

MR53EHighest density & mission critical

802.11ac Wave 2 4x4:4-stream MU-MIMO

Multigigabit support for highest throughputs over existing cabling

MR42EFocused coverage & flexibility

802.11ac Wave 2 3x3:3-stream MU-MIMO

6 antenna options, including BLE antenna (allows Bluetooth coverage to equal WiFi coverage area)


The D series (downtilt panel omni)

The full lineup

The A series (dipole) The B series (dipole) The C series (panel omni)

The E series (wide patch) The F series (narrow patch)

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RF profiles and RX-SOP

Available to Meraki MR access points as a free feature update

Customize RF characteristics by deployment


Powerful heuristics for smarter wireless troubleshooting

Meraki Wireless Health: A powerful heuristics engine that rapidly identifies anomalies impacting end users’ experience across every

stage of client connectivity — association, authentication, IP addressing, and DNS availability — for rapid root cause analysis and

response.

Quickly identify worst-performing access points & client devices, problematic latency, and specific failure reasons

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But don’t just take our word for it

“The cloud features of Meraki and the plug-and-play installation

shaved at least a month off of our deployment cycle.”

— Chris Biggers, IT Manager at the Boutique Hotel Collection

“Meraki APs have fixed 99% of the wireless

errors we were having before.”— Jeff Pick, Director of Technology for Make-A-Wish America

“We had to pinch ourselves: ‘Is this really that simple?’”— Andrew McInerney, Data Network and Voice Manager at Penn Mutual

“In a few weeks we added 10,000 devices to the network and 300 Meraki APs,

roughly doubling the end user computing devices and significantly adding to the

wireless — all without hiring a single extra person.”

— John Krull, Chief Technology Officer for Oakland Unified School District

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Meraki wireless is the solution of choice across industries

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An antenna for any occasion

Internal (current indoor APs)

Wide 360 degree coverage Ideal for most carpeted offices.

A-Series Straight dipoles provide 360 degree coverage pattern

Ideal for low ceiling installations where wall penetration or extended reach are important.

B-Series Bendable dipole provides 360 degree coverage pattern

Ideal to deploy when AP is installed on walls tilted downwards, or best-effort deployments where APs are installed on uneven

surfaces or walls.

C-Series Panel omni. Aesthetically pleasing vs. dipoles

Ideal for low ceiling deployments or open areas, such as the ceiling in center of loading docks, warehouses, etc.

D-Series Panel downtilt omni. Aesthetically pleasing vs.

dipoles

Higher ceilings (25 ft+) with medium-density usage. If ceiling is too high, can be installed at an angle using arm mount.

E-Series Wide patch Wide coverage area for medium-density deployments in stadiums, warehouse, and auditoriums.

F-series Narrow patch Narrow coverage area for high-density deployments in areas like stadiums and auditoriums.

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