A little over a year ago, Cisco announced the sunsetting of AireOS controllers and the end of a dynasty in the Wi-Fi industry. Approximately ten years ago, Cisco acquired a young startup company named Meraki in an enormous, 1.2-billion-dollar purchase. As an Airespace Wi-Fi fan, the news was a bit intriguing. The one thing that had been clearly missing from the Cisco/Airespace acquisition of 2005 was the lack of a cloud-based management system coupled with state-of-the-art hardware and radios. The Meraki acquisition held the promise of closing that gap in Cisco/Airespace portfolio.

What Kind of Ransomware Protection is Required to Qualify for Most Cyber Policies?

It’s been almost 4.5 years since I first wrote about Cisco’s DNA Center. You can still read it here. By this point, everyone should have DNA-C deployed and running their networks, and if you haven’t, you’re late to the game, right? No, not quite.

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An increasing number of technology leaders like you are modernizing their IT infrastructure from traditional blade computing to hybrid cloud environments while reducing their operating costs.