By Raymond Doucette | 57 Min Video

This session will introduce the Meraki portfolio from the point of view of planning for a hybrid deployment consisting of cloud-managed Cisco Meraki components and on-premise managed Cisco components. The session will also provide guidance and advice regarding the integration and troubleshooting of hybrid environments, as well as planning for future cloud-managed capabilities based on Cisco’s publicly available announcements.

After watching, you will be able to identify Meraki products relevant to enterprise networking, understand issues with respect to integrating Meraki into a hybrid on-premise/cloud-managed environment, and plan ahead for coming publicly announced capabilities like cloud-managed Catalyst infrastructure.

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Meraki Product Suite Overview

Introduces full-stack Meraki gear: SDWAN MX appliances, MR access points, MS switches—all managed via a cloud dashboard.

Hybrid Deployment Scenarios

Demonstrates use cases: campus-branched hybrid, cloud-forward management, and multi-site integration.

Centralized Management and Policies

Covers dashboard-based policy creation, remote configuration, and firmware rollouts across device types.

Security and Resilience Tools

Covers automatic failover, secure content filtering, advanced threat detection, and logging.

Monitoring and Analytics

Reviews built-in monitoring: link usage, security events, plus integrations with alerts and remote diagnostics.

Deployment Best Practices

Covers staging, change control, compliance, device tagging, and template-based site provisioning.