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Cisco acquires Meraki: how 3 guys from MIT transformed the networking industry
- madsushi 14y agoGreat news for the Meraki team, who have made a wonderful product. Unfortunately it means I need to find another wifi vendor, as my company chose to resell Meraki specifically to counter Cisco's portfolio.
- Nate75Sanders 14y agoDo you mind explaining that last part?
- madsushi 14y agoWe're not a Cisco partner, so we became a Meraki reseller in order to be able to provide wireless gear. Now that Cisco has bought them, we'll have to look for another vendor as we're still not going to be a Cisco partner. We're the "not Cisco" guys, Juniper for switching, HP for servers, etc.
- jacquesm 14y agoThat's exactly why Cisco had to buy them. They don't want to lose partner channel sales to companies that won't push Cisco. I expect there are a lot of parties in that boat or at least a very similar one. Once you've made the step to not buy Cisco for one product the dam is breached and all your purchasing decisions that would otherwise default to Cisco are up for negotiations and alternatives.
- hkmurakami 14y agoThis is a strategy that I've been told is effective in getting acquired. If your business is a huge pain in the ass to the incumbent's status quo, then said incumbent will acquire you; they won't shut the product down explicitly, but it'll lead a marginalized existence thereafter.
- 360speed 14y agoMadsushi, I feel your pain. That sucks when the big boys try and make a squeeze play on you. Have you found another vendor?
- lazydon 14y agodiscussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802147 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802147
- Foreshadow 14y agoNow those vulnerabilities placed by design will NEVER be fixed... So much for those late night chats with the engineers. Those management packets will forever remain unencrypted... ;-)
- hkmurakami 14y ago>Quick: when was the last time you plugged in an Ethernet cable? If I haven't plugged in my ethernet cable in a while, can't it just mean that my wired network is running smoothly?
- mjwalshe 14y agoYes decent ethernet structured cabling is somthing you do once and you only need to plug and uplug cables if you do a mjor renovation of your building. That is sort of comment of a "sub" who thinks they are leet becase they have sucsesfully connected there mac/ipad to a single consumer AP.
- nnnnni 14y agoSo what exactly does this mean for Meraki and its customers?
- sdfjkl 14y agoSee: http://www.meraki.com/company/cisco-acquisition-faq http://www.meraki.com/company/cisco-acquisition-faq In essence, everything is supposed to go on as before. What is really going to happen remains to be seen. Money changes everything, and there's a huge difference in company cultures between Cisco and Meraki.
- mwerty 14y agoWhat do they mean by multitenancy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy - this?
- sdfjkl 14y agoYes. This refers to the cloud controller, which all Meraki devices connect to, as opposed to the traditional appliance/software that you install and host yourself for your own devices only.