It allows us do things like if it's Office 365 traffic, send it to Office 365. It is revolutionising the way we perform routing decisions, and optimise networks. SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Networks) is a huge buzzword in networking at the moment. Meraki supports a number of industry standard routing protocols - that is a protocol who's responsibility it is to maintain and communicate a list of active paths - but probably most interestingly is supports something called SD-WAN. I am in Barnsley, and if I want to get to London I make a "routing decision" - do I go down the A1 or do I go down the M1? I weigh those two routes up on a variety of factors - which is shortest, which is busiest, which is quickest, and I decide to go one way or the other. Routing is a networking term which basically means selecting the right path through a network, or between networks. And the insights are great - you can see how many people are first time vs recurring visitors, how long people stay for - even if they didn't connect to your WiFi! This can revolutionise your marketing strategies - allowing you to gather emails for marketing, or monitor the success of promotions to identify which brought more people in the door or made people stay longer. In fact, it's not only easy to identify the user, it's a couple of clicks to throttle them (well.not them.) - for example you can just click a few buttons and say "restrict this users Netflix down to 1 Mbps".įor guest networks, it's unbelievably simple to create captive portals to capture visitor's email addresses, or even monetise WiFi if that's your thing. Ever been in a situation where something is using all the bandwidth and making your Internet slow, and it takes ages to figure out what? That's a thing of the past with Meraki. You can see every client, what applications they use, how much bandwidth they have been using - and it can all be found in a matter of seconds. The visibility provided by the WiFi is incredible. They are fully compliant with the latest Wi-Fi 6 standards, and use the latest technology to ensure you get the best coverage in terms of both speed and range.
Their access points are enterprise grade hardware. This is what we want to see.WiFi is where it all began for Meraki. Once we're in the event log, we're looking for a successful connection message. To bring up the event log in Meraki, navigate to Network-wide > Event log. Once we are on the same page, we will need to look at the Meraki Event Log on both Meraki appliances, to make sure that the tunnels have been negotiated successfully. Once the above steps have been completed, please let us know so we can restart the tunnel connection and test to make sure the tunnel is functioning properly. In the new window that opens up, configure it as followsĪll of the above settings MUST match exactly, or the VPN tunnel will fail. Otherwise, it should show Custom as it does in the screenshot above. If you haven't yet edited the IPsec policies, it should say Default. Then click on the link underneath the IPsec policies. If your appliances already have a tag, you can use it, otherwise, you can leave this blank. Private Subnets will be the subnet of the VPN, which we will also supply, along with the Preshares secret. Public IP will be the IP address we supply for the VPN. For the name, you can give it whatever name you like, it does not matter. Next to the Non-Meraki VPN peers section, fill it out as follows. In the Meraki portal, select the proper network, then navigate to Security Appliance > Site-to-site VPN.įrom there, make sure the Type is set to Hub and the local subnets you supplied us earlier are set to Yes.įrom there, scroll down until you see Organization-wide settings. This needs to be done on both Meraki appliances. First, we need to configure the 3rd party VPN in Meraki.
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