Category: Unified Access

How Cisco Meraki MX customers contained Heartbleed in a day!

Why, with Sourcefire IPS, MX security for distributed sites is second to none.

Online threats abound, and securing a single network—let alone multiple networks—is a full-time job. The disclosure of the dangerous (and widespread) Heartbleed vulnerability has propelled public awareness of exploitable threats. However, the challenge of providing a rapid security response across remote sites still looms large.

In this post we’ll explain how intrusion prevention (IPS) works on Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, and how we were able to protect our customers against Heartbleed within 24 hours of its revelation — faster than our competition.

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Join Us for a Cisco Meraki Cloud Networking Seminar! – Total Communications – 10/8 & 10/9

Total Communications and Cisco will co-host a breakfast seminar highlighting the Cisco Meraki Cloud Networking Portfolio.

Christina Ward, a Cisco Meraki Product Specialist, will provide a live demo that illustrates how businesses can centrally manage their Wireless, Security and Edge Networks from a single pane of glass. This feature-rich, easy-to-use cloud architecture enables customers to control users, applications, and devices on their network while addressing new business problems and reducing operating costs. Please join us to learn more about these comprehensive wireless, next-gen firewall, switching and mobile device management offerings while enjoying breakfast on us!

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Is your business a Digital Enterprise? – Don’t be disrupted!!!

This past year at Cisco Live, John Chambers was the keynote speaker and talked about how enterprises are facing a new digital age that promises to grow 10 times faster than the Internet age has grown, and must expect that their businesses will be disrupted.

By 2020, about 75 percent of businesses will become digital, but only 30 percent will do it successfully, he said. "This is brutal," he said. "If you miss the transformation, you're history."

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Catch Up With Cisco – Enterprise Networks – Webinar – Thursday, October 1, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, October 7, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. ET

Today, enterprises are trying to cope with trends such as mobility, bring your own device, cloud, virtualization, and the Internet of Things.

Join us to learn about the new Cisco features and functionalities that can help you meet the wired and wireless converged access and secure network challenges that result from today's trends.

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Next Gen WAN Design Workshop: Intelligent WAN (IWAN) – Farmington, Ct, 10/28/15

Technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly strategic through architectures that are now being called SD WAN. Therefore, SD WAN (or Cisco’s implementation of it, known as intelligent WAN, or IWAN) has become hugely important to companies worldwide.

Come and join us in this hands-on design workshop to learn how to design an Intelligent WAN (IWAN) that delivers the required performance, resiliency, security, application, and manageability that address your affordability requirements.

This workshop is free to Cisco customers. Lunch will be provided. Seating is limited, and only registered attendees will be admitted.

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Enterprise Networking bimonthly webinars! 802.11ac, HDX, Deploying Universal AP’s, WLAN for remote branches, Prime, iWAN and many more!

Many of our customers are making strategic decisions on their next generation wired and wireless access network. To help companies like yours make more informed decisions, the Cisco specialist team will be providing bi-weekly webinars to discuss market trends and up-dates on Cisco’s new wired and wireless solutions.

Click on the topics below to register and for additional information. You’ll receive a calendar entry and reminders the day of the session.

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Cisco Meraki Webinars and get a free AP!!!

Cisco Meraki Webinars and get a free AP!!! Cisco Meraki has great webinars you might find interesting: Intro to Cloud Networking & Switching Cloud Managed Wifi: Next Step in Wireless Cloud Managed Switches A New Era in Cloud-Based MDM Growing your network with 802.11ac Cloud Managed Security Appliance Cloud Based Mobile Device Management

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Why should you migrate to 802.11ac?

Are you still using 1st generation 802.11n Access Points?   WHY would you up-grade to the new 802.11ac access points? Here at the top reasons to migrate to 802.11ac: CleanAir:    The 1st Generation 802.11n APs (i.e. AP1142)  did not have our SAGE ASIC, which allows the system to PRO-actively identify, Classify, Locate and Mitigate interference Increased CPU & …

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