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Building high capacity

networks with Cisco
Meraki
David van Schravendijk - Product Marketing, Meraki Access
Sunmeel Bhumkar - Product Specialist, Meraki Wireless
Kapil Pathak – Product Specialist, Meraki Switching
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Agenda
• About Cisco Meraki
• The high density landscape
• New standards
• High density Wireless
• High capacity Switching
• Q&A

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Cisco Meraki
Simplifying IT with cloud management
A complete cloud managed IT solution
Wireless, switching, security, SD-WAN,
assurance, endpoint management, and security
cameras
Integrated hardware, software, and cloud
services

Leader in cloud-managed IT
Among Cisco’s fastest growing portfolios

420k+ 5.7M+ 30M+

Unique Meraki devices API requests
customers online per day

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Out-of-band cloud management
Intuitive
• Simple browser-based dashboard
• Cloud-hosted centralized management platform
Scalable
• Unlimited throughput, no bottlenecks
• Add devices or sites in minutes
Reliable
• Highly available cloud with multiple data centers
• Network functions even if connection to cloud is interrupted
• 99.99% uptime SLA
Secure
• No user traffic passes through Meraki cloud
• Fully HIPAA-/PCI-compliant network (level 1 certified)
• Third party security audits, daily penetration testing
• Automatic firmware and security updates (user-scheduled)

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Increasingly valuable IT investment

Over-the-web feature delivery with quarterly updates

Granular control over firmware versions

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The high capacity
landscape
A high capacity network
The high capacity design has multiple distribution layers connected
to a core layer and dense demands in the access layer for wired
ports and WLAN devices.

Examples:
• 15,000 users wired/wireless
• High availability, critical business continuity
• 100’s of APs
• 30+ clients per AP

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2019 Cisco VNI – North America

Average speeds increasing 118%+

Average traffic per capita per

month increasing 150%+

Devices and Connections per

capita increasing 67%
2017 2022

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Next generation high capacity landscape

High density Enhanced Internet of

environments experiences things

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High capacity, high complexity
Technical challenges

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

collisions
Half-duplex halves performance of each active client

Finite number of non-overlapping channels limits usable spectrum

Additional SSIDs add RF overhead, contribute to interference

Sticky clients can ruin the experience for all

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The reality of the previous Wi-Fi amendments

Wi-Fi 4
Wi-Fi 5
Wi-Fi 6

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The high density journey

?
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New Standards
Wi-Fi 6 is here today
Higher Throughput
Up to 4.8 Gbps

4x High Density
High performance + clients

802.11ax
Enhanced Reliability
8X8 deterministic capacity

Longer Battery Life

Up to 3x

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Wi-Fi 6 is here today

Draft 3.0 review Final

Plugfest .. Plugfest ..

Pre-standard APs
H1 CY 2018 H2 CY 2018 H1 CY 2019 H2 CY 2019 H1 CY 2020 H2 CY 2020

Early Clients Mainstream Clients

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Backwards compatibility

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Spatial diversity and MU-MIMO

8x8:8
8 Transmitters 8 Receivers 8 Spatial Streams

High Downstream and Upstream

Throughput

High Receiver reliability or lower

latency

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OFDMA

Up to 9 clients can share

a single 20 MHz channel
thereby communicating
simultaneously with the
Access Point.

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1024 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)

25% better
data transfer
rate

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BSS Color
With Wi-Fi 6 even if you have APs
operating in overlapping channels
11ax clients ignore transmissions
from neighboring APs
with different BSS colors.

Benefits

1 2

Lowers airtime Improves

contention and battery life
improves airtime
efficiency

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Target Wake Time (TWT)

With 802.11ax, APs

can stagger a wake-
up call per clients
avoiding air-time
contention

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Wi-Fi 6 benefits vs. Wi-Fi 5

Target Wake Time (TWT)

Wi-Fi 6: The Next Generation of Wireless Cisco Meraki white paper, April 2019

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WPA3

Cisco Meraki is closely monitoring this standard

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OpenRoaming and 5G
Access providers Identity providers

Enterprise Access
Access Identity
Identity Cloud provider
providers
providers
OpenRoaming provider
provider
Consumer identity Service provider
Large venue federation Device makers

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mGig
• Also known as NBASE-T Cable Type 1G 2.5G 5G 10G

• 2.5/5/10G to the AP Cat5e Yes Yes Yes NO

Cat6 Yes Yes Yes 55m

• Uses existing cabling
Cat6a Yes Yes Yes Yes
• Supports UPOE (60W)

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Next generation high capacity networking

MR55
MR45

MS450
MS355

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Cloud-managed
Wireless
Wi-Fi 6 compatible Meraki wireless APs

MR55 MR45
• Support for up to 8x8:8 • Support for up to 4x4:4
• 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz band • 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz band
• Downstream OFDMA & MU-MIMO • Downstream OFDMA & MU-MIMO
• 5Gbps mGig 802.3at Ethernet port • 2.5Gbps mGig 802.3at Ethernet port
• IoT Radio with Bluetooth 5.0 • IoT Radio with Bluetooth 5.0

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 Meraki MR 802.11ac Wave 2
Hospitality Entry General Purpose High density

Indoor MR30H MR20 MR33 MR42 MR42E MR52 MR53E

2 Stream, 4-Radio 2 Stream, 2-Radio 2 Stream, 4-Radio MR53
802.11ac Wave 2 802.11ac Wave 2 802.11ac Wave 2 3 Stream, 4-Radio 4 Stream, 4-Radio
4-port switch 802.11ac Wave 2 802.11ac Wave 2 -Multigigabit
1 PoE-out port

MR70 MR74 MR84

2 Stream, 2-Radio 2 Stream, 4-Radio 4 Stream, 4-Radio
802.11ac Wave 2 802.11ac Wave 2 802.11ac Wave 2 -Multigigabit

4-Radio = 2.4GHz client serving radio, 5GHz client serving radio, Dual-band scanning radio, BLE radio
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Automatic detection and configuration antennas

Indoor

Outdoor

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RF Profiles for high density deployments

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Demystifying
Auto RF

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Auto RF self-optimizes the network via the cloud

Interference Channel & power

metrics optimization

RSSI of neighbor BSSs

Channel utilization
BSS channel width
Capabilities of BSS
BSSIDs

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Auto RF – TX power algorithm

2
3+

Look at neighbors with 17-30 dB SNR

Look at top 3 neighbors with 17-30 dB
and check 4 conditions
SNR and check 4 conditions
• If min (neighbors) < 17 = increase TX
• If min (neighbors) < 12 = increase TX
• If min (neighbors) > 22 = decrease TX
• If min (neighbors) > 17 = decrease TX
• If max (neighbors) < 30 = increase TX
• If max (neighbors) < 30 = increase TX
• If max (neighbors) > 35 = decrease TX
• If max (neighbors) > 35 = decrease TX
 Increase TX: 1 condition true
 Increase TX: 1 condition true
1  Decrease TX: 2 conditions true
 Decrease TX: 2 conditions true

Look at neighbor with 22-27 dB SNR

• If min (neighbors) < 22 = increase TX
• If min (neighbors) > 27 = decrease TX

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Auto RF coverage hole prevention
• Peers of APs that are only
neighbors of one other AP
are considered risky to
reduce
• AP with signal >8 dB
considered neighbor
• If minimum client SNR < 10
dB, then TX is not
decreased
• Min. TX power: 2.4 GHz = 5
dBm, 5 GHz = 8 dBm

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Auto RF - TX power changes
• Runs every 20 min
• TX Power reduced by 1-3 dB
per iteration
• TX Power increased by 1 dB
per iteration
• Clients are not disconnected
during TX power changes

• Fresh radios start at max

power then reduce
• When using mesh, APs will
use max TX power

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Auto RF – channel considerations
• Airtime Availability and Channel Utilization Analyzed
• Non-802.11 utilization and 802.11 utilization
• Minimize contention and maximize available airtime
• OBSS - APs configured on similar primary channels if operating within the same
bandwidth
• Neighbor APs - Out of network APs & In-network APs for best roaming experience
• Usage Demands and Capability Analyzed
• Client capabilities (802.11 protocol, BW capability) and demands in the area.
• AP capabilities (802.11 protocol, BW capability) in the area to serve the clients

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Auto RF – channel changes
• Most Common Channel Changes
• Steady state - Runs every 15 Minutes
• Jammed Channel - 65% or greater non-802.11 interference for 1 min
• Considerations
• Limit reconvergence times - radios with active Mesh Routes will not change with
steady state
• DFS channels require CAC - Cloud will not instruct channel change to DFS if
clients are connected
• Logging

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Wireless demo
Cloud-managed
Switching
Meraki switches – what’s different?
Intuitive centralized management
GUI-based management interface
Eliminates hop-by-hop configuration &
management
Easy to deploy, manage and configure
Single pane of glass visibility into all devices
Zero-touch site provisioning
Seamless updates from the cloud
Network visibility
Fingerprints users, applications and devices
Network-wide monitoring and alerts

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Many ways to stack

Virtual stacking Available on all models

Available on all models

Physical stacking (except MS120)

On MS425
Flexible stacking
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Meraki switches for high capacity networks

High bandwidth MS355 access and MS450 aggregation switching

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 Prepare for AX with high capacity switches
▪ MS355-24X
MS355-24X
▪ 8 x mGig
▪ 16 x 1G
▪ 4 x 10G, 2 x 40G

MS355-48X ▪ MS355-48X
▪ 16 x mGig
▪ 32 x 1G
▪ 4 x 10G, 2 x 40G
MS355-24X2
▪ MS355-24X2
▪ 24 x mGig
▪ 4 x 10G, 2 x 40G
MS355-48X2
▪ MS355-48X2
▪ 24 x mGig
▪ 24 x 1G
Gig mGig 10G 40G ▪ 4 x 10G, 2 x 40G

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Band together with the MS450

The MS450 aggregation switch

bands together with our
mGig-capable MS355 access switch

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Meraki aggregation switching
MS450 Specifications:
• 12 x 40G QSFP+ ports
• 2 x 100G QSFP28 uplinks
• 400G of physical stacking bandwidth
• 1.36 Tbps of switching capacity

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 Meraki Layer 2 Access Switching

Compact MS120-8 PoE+ 1G SFP Slim Form

options Uplinks Factor

Branch MS120 PoE+ 1G SFP

options Uplinks

L2+
Branch &

Compatible Stacking
MS210 PoE+ 1G SFP 80G L3 RPS
Campus options Uplinks Stacking Static Optional
Routing

L2+
Branch &
Campus MS225 PoE+ 10G SFP+ 80G L3 RPS
options Uplinks Stacking Static Optional
Routing

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 Meraki Layer 3 Access Switching
Branch & L3
MS250
+

Campus PoE+
options
10G SFP+
Uplinks
80G
Stacking
Layer 3 Modular
Routing Power

L3
+

Compatible Stacking
Campus MS350 PoE+ 10G SFP+ 160G Highly Modular Modular
options Uplinks Stacking Scalable Power Fans
L3 Routing

L3
+
Campus MS350-24X PoE+/ 10G SFP+ 160G Highly Modular Modular
UPoE Uplinks Stacking Scalable Multigigabit Power Fans
L3 Routing

L3
High-Bandwidth +

Campus MS355 PoE+/ 10G/40G 400 G Highly

Scalable
Modular Modular
UPoE Uplinks Stacking Multigigabit Power Fans
L3 Routing

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 Meraki Aggregation Portfolio
L3
Small & Medium +

Campus MS410 1G SFP 10G SFP+ 160G Highly Modular Modular

links Uplinks Stacking Scalable Power Fans
L3 Routing

L3
Medium & +

Large Campus MS425 10G SFP+ 40G 160G Highly Deeper Modular Modular
links QSFP+ Flexible Scalable Buffer Power Fans
Uplinks Stacking L3 Routing

L3
High Bandwidth +

Campus
MS450 40G 100G 400G Highly Deeper Modular Modular
QFSP+ QSFP28 Stacking Scalable Buffer Power Fans
links Uplinks L3 Routing

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Network Diagram

Systems Manager
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Switching demo
Wired and
Wireless
innovations
SecureConnect
MR

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SecureConnect
Reliable
Security

Scalable
1. Device detection and Meraki dashboard
Automation
connection
2. Certificate Authentication Request
Increased
Productivity 3. MR Authentication
4. MS Port Authorization

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Trusted Access

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Client Health

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A few other Meraki sessions
Session
Session Title Time
Code
Simple, Secure, Digital Workplace with
Tuesday, June 11, 2:00-
INTRST-1105 Cisco Meraki
2:30 pm
Todd Nightingale, SVP/GM
BRKGEN- Powerful, programmable cloud networking Thursday, June 13,
1733 with Meraki APIs 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
DEVWKS- Network Provisioning, Management, and Tuesday, June 11,
1069 Monitoring with Meraki dashboard API 3:00pm – 3:45pm
BRKCRS- Wednesday, June 12,
Deep dive into Meraki powered SD-WAN
1579 4:00pm – 5:30pm
The hybrid campus: how to effectively
BRKCRS- Tuesday, June 11,
deploy a combined Catalyst and Meraki
2105 9:30am – 10:30am
solution

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