We are excited to announce that Cisco Meraki Canada Region has added support for MX SD-WAN Plus and MI Insight. With MX SD-WAN Plus, users get access to ThousandEyes insights, Smart L7 local internet breakout, performance-based routing, and ML-powered analytics. Meraki Insight provides end-to-end visibility into how users experience a network, providing performance management and troubleshooting with zero setup or configuration required.

We are excited to announce that our new AP Neighbors feature will become publicly available for beta soon! AP Neighbors aims to provide enhanced visibility and insights to Meraki dashboard users on their access point environments.

Designed to greatly improve the management of access point RF interference, AP neighbors provides IT administrators with the tools necessary to maintain network performance and proactively address potential poor performance due to signal overlap from multiple APs.

AP Neighbors Page

Today, we are excited to announce the latest advancements in Meraki Trusted Access, designed to transform your wireless network onboarding experience with Meraki MR access points:

• Dedicated app support for Windows 10+ devices
• A new streamlined browser-based solution for Android 10+ users utilizing Passpoint (Hotspot 2.0) technology
• Email notifications to alert users of impending access expiration

We are excited to announce that SES-imagotag ESL (Electronic Shelf Labels) integration is now supported on our newest APs - MR28, MR78 and CW9162, CW9164, and CW9166 APs giving customers more models to choose from to meet their wireless and IoT needs. 

We are excited to announce that Cisco Meraki for Government is now available to buy for our U.S. Federal customers. Cisco Meraki for Government provides a secure and efficient way to support networking transformation within budget.

Our cloud-managed platform simplifies networking to make it easier to deploy, manage, and optimize networks-driving IT modernization and enabling hybrid work. Meraki helps future proof networks and allows agencies to stay ahead of changing citizen and regulatory demands while improving employee productivity.​

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 

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.

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
   

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.

SES ESL integration is now available for all networks running MR 28.1 or newer firmware.

Please ensure that your V:Cloud stores use the token-based (JWT) connection. Direct connection type is no longer supported for new ESL deployments.

Refer to our documentation for more details.

WPN is now available to all customers with networks running MR 29.4.1 Stable and 29.5 Release Candaite firmware.

Please refer to the updated WPN documentation for more information about this feature.

Many Cisco Meraki access points now support Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) channels in the US/FCC regulatory domain. 

MR 29.4.1 release has been promoted to Stable!

Please refer to  MR Firmware Features for more information about specific features included in this release.

To reduce confusion between the new Cisco+ Secure Connect product and the existing MS and MR SecureConnect feature, we are renaming the port configuration capability. We will begin referring to the automated process of securely provisioning MR Access Points when directly connected to Meraki MS Switches as SecurePort.  

Please note that this name change will impact the following API end-point, where customers will need to modify the key ‘secureConnect’ to ‘securePort’ on their API calls:

1.https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-settings 

2.https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-device-switch-ports-statuses 

Learn more 

Read more about SecurePort here.

Ever get asked “what is xyz feature, when is it coming, which firmware is it in, etc.”?

Do you want to create some #Merakimagic with your Wi-Fi network?  We’ve got some really cool features coming out with our next firmware release - MR29.1 - ready now for public beta.

While this release offers a host of enhancements, the top features that I am most excited about include Wireless Personal Network (WPN), Band Steering & Client Balancing, as well as expanded IoT support.

Top Features:

• Wireless Personal Network (WPN) - offering the ability to segment the wireless network on a per-user basis to provide a home-like personal network experience on a shared network (single VLAN).  This feature is particularly well suited for shared environments such as university dorms, hotels, senior homes, etc. 

Do you have a high-density environment in which users complain about performance issues?  MR29.1 adds both Band Steering and Client Balancing to optimize performance and improve the user experience.  

• Band Steering  detects clients capable of 5GHz operation and steers them to that frequency, leaving the more crowded 2.4GHz band available for legacy clients; while Client Balancing uses information about the state of the network and wireless client probes to steer the client to the best available access point - improving download and upload performance while reducing loss and latency for mission-critical applications.  

This is a WIN-WIN for everyone! 

Are you wondering what do you do with that USB port on your MR57?  How about some IoT applications! One in particular is Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL):

• MR29.1 offers Expanded IoT Support via USB port (6E APs only) for SoluM and Hanshow USB gateways.

Other features include enhancements to Mesh Networking and IPv6. 

If you need more information on how to manage your firmware upgrades, check out this article or the FAQs page on firmware.

Simpler, more efficient operations, powerful automation and more agility than you’ve ever seen.

Track your ESL status in the Meraki dashboard 

Providing smart, secure, exceptional guest connectivity doesn’t need to be a chore.  Find out how this new launch can help you do that! 

The band selection and minimum bitrate configuration options have been moved from the Access Control page to the Radio settings page (RF profiles).

Now, you can configure them all in one place!

RA (IPv6) and DHCP (v4/v6) guard support on MR is here!

Meraki MT sensors can connect to most WiFi-5 MR access points as gateways to the Meraki platform!

With the MX16 firmware release, NBAR will be available for full-stack enablement! 🚀

New updates are designed to make it easier to identify underperforming access points, solve sticky client issues more quickly, and trigger alerts by implementing anomaly detection by using Meraki machine learning models. 

Allowed DNS events have been added to the Security Center.