Are you a Canadian customer that would like to store data locally? If so, we can help! We’ve created Cisco Meraki Canada Region, a separate cloud platform that stores network management data within Canada. Cisco Meraki Canada Region is now generally available and provides the same security, reliability and redundancy offered by our distributed cloud architecture.  
 
Main benefits: 

1. Same ease of use as our commercial cloud  
2. Same end-to-end visibility across your networks 
3. Same security and reliability 
4. No user data passes through the Meraki platform 
5. Network management data stored in Canada 

Update: We have reached our target number of customers for this beta program. We appreciate the excitement and support!

We’re thrilled to invite you to join our exclusive private beta program for the highly anticipated Cisco SSO (Single Sign On) feature that will be rolled out to most Meraki users in early 2024. The beta program will start in late July to early August 2023, for a select number of customers prior to the public release of this new feature.

We are excited to announce a new smart alert - MAC flap anomaly. Sometimes, MAC flap detection events can become noisy due to wireless roaming, which is expected. Due to this noise, it is hard to tell which events are expected versus unexpected. To solve this problem, Cisco Meraki has built this smart alert to help detect these unexpected events more accurately.

We are thrilled to announce a new email alert functionality ~ mute wireless notification based on switch port schedule. This benefits network administrators who enabled or would like to enable the switch port schedule feature to power off Meraki APs to save energy and do not wish to get notified for AP up and down alerts.

We are excited to announce the public preview of Port Profiles feature. 

Please note: This feature has no minimum firmware requirements, MS15.21.1 or later is recommended for the best overall management experience. Port profiles are supported on non-templated switching networks. Support for Configuration Templates and networks bound to configuration templates will be added in the near future. 

Need more information? 

Check out the Port Profiles documentation pages for details. Should you encounter any issues, please do not hesitate to contact Meraki Support for assistance. 

Exciting news for you all as we announce the addition of new solutions from our amazing ecosystem partner - Boundless Digital! At Cisco Meraki, we are always striving to improve the power of our network management capabilities and with our partnership with Boundless Digital we are doing just that.

MT14 & MT10 are now certified by a third-party verification company!

We are excited to announce eligible Catalyst 9300 switches can now migrate to Meraki management mode.  Join us and unlock the flexibility and control at the cloud scale today with the Meraki dashboard. 

Eligible models:

• C9300-24P/T/U/UX
• C9300-48P/T/U/UN/UXM 

We are excited to announce the release of our latest MS16 software beta version! This release delivered new features and improvements designed to make you more efficient and productive. Upgrade to this new version today for remote network traffic analysis flow improvement and network security enhancement. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest software release and provide us with your feedback.  

Eligible platforms 

MS16 will be applicable to all non-MS390 switches. If your network has MS390 and/or migrated C9300, please refer to our latest Catalyst-based Switching (CS) firmware release. 

We are thrilled to introduce independent firmware releases for Meraki Switching (MS) and Catalyst-based Switching (CS), including the MS390 and migrated C9300 switches. This milestone furthers our commitment to delivering consistent and reliable features and quality updates to all our customers, regardless of your switching product models. 

Why are we doing this? 

This new firmware release approach will accelerate our value delivery, so you, as a customer, will experience more innovations faster and better, regardless of your switching product models. We will ensure a consistent user experience and interoperability on both firmware branches when adding new features, albeit with different release schedules.

Additional 30 ports to scale AutoVPN 

Cisco+ Secure Connect is a turnkey, unified Service Edge Secure Access (SASE) solution designed to deliver an exceptional user experience with minimal effort by securely connecting users, things, and applications seamlessly from anywhere. This solution converges cloud-delivered security (SSE) and networking (SD-WAN) on one powerful platform with a single dashboard, making management easy and providing greater visibility and control. There are many use cases that Cisco+ Secure Connect offers, but one of the key use cases is Remote Access. If you would like to learn more, please refer to the document here.

Traditionally, the organization has several hubs deployed as a headend where Remote users establish the connectivity through VPN client. Meraki MX provides this capability with two options: Client-VPN and Cisco Secure Client (aka AnyConnect) VPN. With Cisco+ Secure Connect, you can achieve the same with cloud hubs available in various regions. It provides benefits such as scale, flexibility and cloud-delivered security capabilities that does not limit the performance or impact the end user experience.

While transitioning to the cloud-based Remote Access solution, one of the key questions is, how can I make sure that all my current policies can be applied to the cloud-based solution? One way is to create them from scratch line by line. Or as Meraki says, we make things simple. Cisco+ Secure Connect is built on the fundamental principle of simplicity everywhere, interconnect everything. Hence, the other option is to instead use a newly developed tool - Policy Import.

Yes!! We are very excited to announce that the Policy Import feature is now available in all Cisco+ Secure Connect supported regions. It is specifically designed to simplify the admin experience, where IT can simply follow a few steps via a guided wizard to import all their Remote Access policies from MX SD-WAN to the Cisco+ Secure Connect Cloud Firewall. To learn more, please visit our documentation here.

Meraki is launching an all new dashboard experience focused on simplicity and intelligence. The new dashboard is cleaner in design, more intuitive to use, and makes it even easier to see what’s happening within networks. We’re doing this to help customers accomplish more in less time while also making it easier for them to stay on top of all aspects of their networks.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of three significant updates to our Cisco Meraki Trusted Access solution - designed to make your wireless onboarding experience with Meraki MRs more seamless, secure, and user-friendly than ever before!

1. Dynamic Expiration Dates
2. Windows 10+ Support
3. Improved Android Experience with Passpoint
   

Administrators no longer need to rely on MAC addresses for ISE policies for SM enrolled devices. Use SM to install a EAP-TLS profile with Wi-Fi+certificate for Cisco ISE device tracking! 

Plus, a bonus updated support for hiding System Preference panes in macOS 13+ 

Customers can now apply a default vape detection alert to detect vape on their school grounds.

We are super excited to announce that VLAN Profiles is now available to access via the early access page. 

MS users, please go to the dashboard, navigate to Organization>Early Access, and toggle “VLAN Profiles” to sign up today! Please refer to the VLAN Profiles documentation page for requirements, guidelines, and limitations. 

For MR users who would like to use this feature, please join the MR 30 Early Adopters Signup here.

As we announced previously, the WEP security algorithm has been deprecated on MR 30.X firmware.

Limited configuration options still exist when using the old Access control page (Wireless > Configure > Access control > View old version > WPA encryption mode) until this page is deprecated.

Please refer to WEP Deprecation on MRs for more information.

The Meraki dashboard team is super excited to announce the public beta launch of not one, but two brand new features today! The Network Service Health and Roaming Analytics features are both available today (03/31/23) via early access and promise to provide even more powerful and intuitive network assurance management capabilities to you, our customers.

Network Service Health

The Network Service Health tile is designed to allow you a one-stop-shop overview of your entire network environment, greatly reducing the lift of assessing network health and granting a quick monitoring and troubleshooting process.

Update now! Significant quality improvements and new features. Check out the MS Firmware Features Directory for details. 

Break SGT boundaries and go global!

The announcements keep on rolling and our Meraki Systems Manager team is excited to share with you our brand new Managed Per App Networking feature in conjunction with the Cisco Security Connector app! This powerful feature will allow users of Meraki Systems Manager to deploy Cisco security on a per-app basis for both supervised and unsupervised devices, allowing for greater specified mobile management control.

We are super excited to announce the launch of the new Switching Overview feature as part of our continuously improving Meraki dashboard! This new feature provides a centralized management hub that gives you a comprehensive view of the status and performance of your switch infrastructure, allowing for better network understanding and identification of potential issues.

Some of the benefits of the new Switching Overview feature include: 

• Enhanced monitoring experience: The new feature is designed to consolidate wide-ranging alerts, metrics, and overall switch infrastructure health into a condensed bird’s eye view.

• Reduced click-time: You no longer need to browse through an assortment of dashboard pages. View and monitor your switching network with efficiency and speed.

• Ability to forecast future network needs: Understand your switching network’s capacity and current utilization to better predict and plan for network expansion needs.

You asked, we listened! Many of you asked for more alerts in the mobile app to stay informed while away from the dashboard. We are excited to announce that we have added the top 11 requested alerts to keep you in the know while on the go! Read more!

Global Overview is now publicly available to customers as part of our Next Generation Dashboard initiative. This

creates an efficient workflow to help you manage more organizations in less time. Read more!

Motion-based retention has become even more powerful, with a new selection tool that allows users to draw custom shapes around areas of interest. This allows organizations more flexibility to select more specific areas that they want to use for video retention, instead of being limited to a rectangular shape. 

We are excited to officially announce Meraki Display, a new Apple TV app for live streaming video walls, now available on the Apple App Store. Meraki Display is a simple, dedicated video wall monitoring solution. Alongside the Vision portal and the Meraki mobile app, Meraki Display is another tool for security teams to keep facilities safe.