Overview

Rapid deployment and scalability

Enterprise security and a dedicated radio

The MR series comes equipped with complete out-of-the-box enterprise class security. Segment wireless users, applications, and devices; secure your network from attacks and enforce the right policies for each class of users. A built-in stateful policy l3/L7 firewall, 802.1X/RADIUS support, and native Active Directory integration deliver fine-grained access control, while a guest access firewall provides secure, Internet-only guest Wi-Fi in just one click. Integrated network access control (NAC) provides end-user anti-virus scanning for accurate client device posture assessment to protect your wired and wireless network against virus infections.

Indoor APs feature a radio dedicated to full-time scanning, rogue AP containment, and automatic RF optimization. With Air Marshal, it is possible to set up a real-time wireless intrusion detection and prevention system (WIDS/WIPS) with user-defined threat remediation policies and intrusion alarms, enabling secure wireless environments without complex setup or systems integration. Auto RF eliminates the need for manual RF configuration by scanning the environment for utilization, interference, and other metrics, and computing the optimal channel and power settings for every AP in the network. Meraki WLANs are fully HIPAA and PCI compliant.

Meraki MR APs integrate with Cisco Umbrella™ (formerly OpenDNS) offering a cloud-delivered first line of defense against security threats like malware, ransomware, and phishing. Cisco Umbrella, the industry’s first secure Internet gateway, protects clients’ devices at the DNS layer. The integration ensures DNS blind spots are proactively monitored and not exposed to malicious security threats.

Cisco ISE with Change of Authorization (CoA) provides secure access for authorized guests, oversight on guest onboarding, and identifies potential BYOD security threats.
Combine Meraki MR access points and Meraki MS switches to eliminate manual per-access-port configurations and reduce installation costs with SecureConnect, which automatically authorizes the MR access point and deploys security profiles

Built-in guest access

Meraki cloud management provides the ability to customize and integrate splash pages onto each Meraki MR access point, with options for click-through or sign-on splash using your own RADIUS server or the Meraki cloud-based RADIUS user database. The Meraki MR series features a complete array of built-in captive portal tools, including a guest ambassador portal for new-user sign-on, splash signin tracking, application blocking and traffic shaping, free and paid tiers of access, integrated credit card processing and prepaid code generation, and splash bypass for corporate-issued or recognized devices.

Presence

The Meraki MR series tracks probing MAC addresses from associated and non-associated clients. This data is exported in real-time from the access points to Meraki’s cloud for analytics; information is then calculated and presented in the Meraki dashboard to display metrics such as user dwell-time, repeat visits, and capture rate (people passing by vs. engaging with a site. This information can be used by retail, hospitality, and enterprise customers to understand foot traffic and visitor behavior across sites in order to facilitate an optimization of opening hours, marketing campaigns, and staffing policies.

BYOD-ready, out of the box

User-owned devices have exploded onto networks everywhere, with new iPads, Androids, and smartphones connecting every day. Meraki MR series APs feature built-in support for BYOD and make it easier than ever to securely track and support user-owned iPads, tablets, smartphones, and laptops—without exta appliances, licenses, or complex VLAN configurations. Using integrated Layer 7 client fingerprinting, client devices are automatically identified and classified, letting you distinguish between iPads and iPohnes, device operation systems, and even manufacturers. Device-specific policies can be automatically applied to restrict, quarantine, or throttle userowned devices. Client fingerprinting combined with a heuristics-driven reporting engine allow you to generate detailed reports of BYOD clients that have connected, measure the bandwidth and applications they’ve accessed, and even see their percentage of total traffic. Bonjour forwarding facilitates seamless discovery of Apple devices across VLANs rounding out a full BYOD-centric feature set.

Combine Meraki MR access points with Meraki cloud-based mobile device management (MDM)—called Meraki Systems Manager—to monitor each of your organization’s devices, showing useful metrics including client hardware/software information and recent location, and centrally manage your corporate devices with a great degree of granularity. Log in with remote desktop or command-line, push new applications, and remotely lock and erase devices. Meraki SM provides secure and seamless client onboarding by encouraging devices connecting to corporate Wi-Fi to enroll into Systems Manager and encrypting network traffic between a user’s device and the access point

BYOD-ready, out of the box

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