Fullstack Assurance powered by

Cisco Meraki
Francisco Tello – Consulting Systems Engineer
May 2020
 Network complexity
High costs to operate

95%
of network changes are
performed manually

$60B 75%
Annually spent on of OpEx is spent on changes
network operations, and troubleshooting
labor, and tools1

70%
of policy violations are
due to human error
1Cisco McKinsey Study

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 How Cisco does it
Analytics and assurance

Streaming telemetry and contextual data

from every device on the network provide
Before After complete visibility.

Hours spent Resolve issues Complex event processing with a series of

fixing network with a single analytics engines finds anomalies instantly.
faults mouse click

Correlated insights and contextual cognitive

analytics accurately pinpoint root cause.
Benefits
• Automatically detect and prioritize issues Guided remediation allows for single-click
resolution, allowing automation to close
• Instant guided remediation for quick resolution the loop.
• Increased performance and less time spent
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Network Architecture Evolution

Unified Architecture

SW SW AP AP Branch 1 Branch 2

WWW
MPLS+
SW SW AP AP Branch 3 WWW Branch 4

SW SW AP AP Branch 5 Branch 6

Dashboard
Meraki
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 The Meraki Platform
A Complete Cloud-Managed IT Portfolio from a Single Pane of Glass

MR MS MX MG
Wireless A ccess E thernet S ecurity & S D -WA N C ellular
P oints S w itches A ppliances G atew ay s

MI SM MV
Insight E ndpoint S mart
[A pplication & WA N ] M anagement C ameras

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 WIRELESS

IS

COMPLEX

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First Step: Meraki Wireless Health
Meraki Wireless Health: A powerful heuristics engine that rapidly identifies anomalies impacting end users’ experience
across every stage of client connectivity — association, authentication, IP addressing, and DNS availability — for rapid root
cause analysis and response.

Quickly identify worst-performing access points & client devices, problematic latency, and specific failure reasons

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 Association/Roaming

Authentication
I cannot connect to
the wireless network
DHCP

DECODING DNS

WIRELESS RSSI

SNR

ISSUES The wireless

network is very slow Data Rate
at this location
Channel Utilization

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Latency
 Second Step: Introducing Meraki
Health

EASY TO USE AND RIGHT DATA, RIGHT TIME,

UNDERSTAND FULL STACK ASSURANCE
RIGHT VIEW
Even if the problem area is Having the right data and Finding issues takes time. The
known, understanding the context available is key to Meraki platform now makes it
issue is key and should be troubleshooting easy to identify problem areas.
easy

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Meraki Health, Full Stack Assurance
10%

100% 100%

100%

80%

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Third Step: Meraki Insight – SD-WAN Assurance
Capabilities Use Case

• “Why are users experiencing slow

• Web A pplication Health
Office 365 acces?”
• “Why do we have 16 branches in
• WA N Health East Coast using their backup
circuit?”
• VoIP Health • “Why is voice quality poor between
NY and PA?”

Drill d own into

Office 365
A p plication
Youtube ex p erience to the
Salesforce 93 user level

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Meraki Insight – Web Application Health

MI’s homepage tells

Who should a the user which point
network admin in the network is
contact? failing and causing a
degradation

Within 2 clicks,
What evidence user can drill down to
can pinpoint the generate specific
problem source? evidence for the
network issue

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 Meraki Insight - WAN Health
At-a-glance health of all
MX uplinks across all
sites
• Quickly identify downed uplinks,
including cellular across all sites

• Easily monitor signal strength for

cellular uplinks across all locations

• Quickly isolate sites with

underperforming uplinks to make the
case for switching ISP or adding
cellular as failover

• Discover which sites are most reliant

on cellular as failover Monitor the health of all MX uplinks including cellular across all sites
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Meraki Insight – VoIP Health

What is i t?

● VoIP performance monitoring over ISP links

● SaaS or On-Prem based VoIP Applications
For Whom?

● Retail/ distributed branch

● Offices
● Multiple sites
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 Smart Thresholds for Web
App Health

WAN and Application visibility with Meraki

Insight powered by Machine Learning

Detect threshold per App per Network to

intelligently identify anomalies and alert
admins of issues

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 Live Demo

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