Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash Topics AI , Cisco , Cloud Computing , Enterprise , IoT , machine learing , meraki , Mergers and Acquisitions , Modcam , Startups ...

Cisco Systems' $1.2 billion purchase of Meraki was pricey, but necessary if the company was going to make a wireless networking play and tap into the small- to mid-sized company market.

Cisco is helping MSPs by allowing them to use their own branded version of the Meraki MSP Dashboard with the goal of making managed services 20 percent of Cisco's $1B Meraki business.

In November 2012, Cisco acquired Meraki for a whopping $1.2 billion. At the time, most people thought that was a huge overpayment for a 330-person startup that made its living selling cloud ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 20, 2012) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Meraki, Inc., a leader in cloud networking. Meraki offers midmarket customers ...

On the hardware side, Cisco Meraki rolled out a new access switch, the MS390 that the company said is the first Meraki switch family to be based on technology found in Cisco’s Catalyst line. It ...

Cisco, tired of designing and building two discrete sets of Wi-Fi products, has merged its Catalyst and Meraki kit under the new "Cisco Wireless" moniker.… The first fruits of this strategy ...

Just two years after Cisco Systems acquired red-hot, cloud-based networking provider Meraki for $1.2 billion, all three founders have left the company. Meraki founders Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket ...