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Because now you’re going to be able to do the same things, you can now tap into that power of the 9300 and be able to use that in your network and do secure tagging and run adaptive policy,” he added.To enable An圜onnect VPN, select Enabled from the An圜onnect Client VPN radio button on the Security Appliance > Configure > Client VPN > An圜onnect Settings tab. “Meraki customers now are also going to start to see the benefits of that Catalyst 9K switching line over the next few years as we bring them in. Rather than having to worry about the hard disk going down, you have that flexibility and it just makes it easier, especially for maybe a remote site to be able to have a virtual appliance deployed,” Stori said.įor fully-managed Meraki cloud customers, they will be able to take advantage of core catalyst networking in their Meraki cloud through the cloud-management service. For customers who choose to keep key applications on-premises, they can use the DNA Center either on physical, on-premises appliances or use the newly-launched virtual appliance capability for virtual machine (VM) instances in private data centers or cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prior to launching this service, Cisco catalyst switches were managed either through the command-line interface (CLI) or DNA Center, which are both deployed on-premise.

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“What we are bringing out in early field trials, is the ability to take that existing device that you have and migrate it into the cloud so you don’t have to buy a new piece of hardware, and if you’re licensed we’ll move that license over,” Stori said. Catalyst users who have a Cisco DNA Center license can get the cloud-management service for free. It brings consistent network management practices with global scale and plug-and-play operations, the company claims.

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It started with the Catalyst 9300 series and then will move to the 92 series. Meraki Management for Hybrid CloudĬisco expects it will be a multi-year journey to bring the entire list of Catalyst 9000 switching lines into the Meraki cloud. “Now you’re going to be able to pipe all of those monitoring data giving you visibility, giving you alerting capabilities, giving you troubleshooting capabilities into the Meraki cloud, incredibly important for hybrid customers, or also customers that are looking to journey to the cloud but aren’t ready to move away from on-premise management today,” Stori explained. The service will bring more visibility of a complete hybrid network all in one single pane of glass through the Meraki dashboard experience, which will make troubleshooting much faster, Stori claims.

Finally, monitoring for Catalyst Access Points will be available through Cisco’s DNA Center by the end of next year. Next, the company will add this capability to its Catalyst modular switches, such as the 94 series.

Cisco’s Fixed Enterprise Access Switches Get Cloud MonitoringĬisco launched the cloud monitoring service with its fixed enterprise access switching platform first, including its 9200, 9300, and 9500 switch series. Stori touted Meraki as “a fantastic example” of the power of the cloud and “hundreds and hundreds of 1,000s of customers that are now using it to manage their networks.”īringing this cloud management to Catalyst users, Cisco claims it will improve IT operations’ efficiency, reduce infrastructure costs and complexity, and enable a smoother journey to the cloud, especially benefiting those in a hybrid cloud environment. Stori joined Cisco through the Meraki acquisition, which Cisco bought for $1.2 billion as a way to improve its WLAN and cloud networking business. But, “almost all customers have in some way embraced the cloud already.”

“Not every customer’s journey to the cloud is going to be the same,” Chris Stori, SVP and GM of Cisco Networking Experiences, told SDxCentral ahead of the company’s Cisco Live event. The network giant will offer Catalyst switch users three steps on the journey to the cloud, including cloud monitoring capabilities for select Catalyst Switches, cloud manageable Wi-Fi 6E access points to certain Catalyst wireless devices, and lastly, fully cloud-managed access networks that combine Catalyst and Meraki.

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LAS VEGAS – Cisco is taking a major step toward bringing a full cloud-managed enterprise networking solution to market by connecting its Catalyst switching and wireless hardware to the Meraki dashboard.