Enterprise Networking Planet – Cisco Meraki Expands into Cloud Managed Communications
Cisco’s Meraki division is expanding into new territory today with the announced of a new managed communication offering. Cisco acquired Meraki in a $1.2 billion deal in November of 2012 and has been incrementally expanding and improving the platform ever since.
The initial promise of Meraki’s technology was cloud management of WiFi access points and has expanded to a broader approach that for cloud managed networking. Now the Meraki platform is going beyond just wired and wireless network into the communications realm.
