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Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion
UnanimousCoward writes "Several outlets are reporting Cisco's intent to acquire Meraki for $1.2 billion. From the article: 'Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, says it is buying Meraki Networks of San Francisco for around $1.2 billion in cash. The news of the deal leaked on Twitter, when Cisco accidentally posted the news on its blog and swiftly removed it, but it was too late. Cisco is hoping to focus on smaller and medium-sized campuses with Meraki and its products.'"
If you've ever decided "Hey, I should manage the infrastructure that lets me access 'the cloud' with 'the cloud', because nothing could possibly go wrong!" then you might have gone shopping with Meraki...
"they are a crappy Internet proxy service for "open wifi" where none of your traffic is encrypted but still requires a user-name and password."
This is inaccurate. It all depends on how you configure your network. You can have encryption, RADIUS authentication, MAC whitelist/blacklist whatever.
" oh and it has stupid site balcklists (well that might be the local admin) "
No "might be" about it. Nothing is blocked by default.
"while not stopping or slowing down torrents which is one of the reasons they started using it"
Then they have a configuration problem. We have no problem doing this for one of our networks.
They *are* crappy, but only because their hardware is absurdly expensive for the speeds it provides. Ubiquiti's Unifi is much better performance/price. Their controller software isn't as advanced though.