Cisco Live 2024 Meraki Wi-Fi Presentations
I went through all the Meraki Wi-Fi 2024 presentations. Here's a summary for you.
Bullet points on a few presentations- my choices are centered on information on Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi. Log into Cisco and see these presentations for free.
Demystifying Wi-Fi Throughput in Meraki Environments - TACMER-2000 Brian Swanson
-No nonsense regular Wi-Fi troubleshooting that works in any environment
-Nice breakdown of the MCS Index
-Brings in a few slides on Cisco Meraki that are helpful for those of us who run Meraki (but this is a worthwhile watch without running Meraki)
Hands-on Meraki Action Batches - CISCOU-2044 Kareem Iskander
-Quick and dirty, shows the concept of using APIs for quick deployment
Design your Enterprise Wireless Network with Cisco Meraki - BRKEWN-2035 Simone Areas
-Good overall product update
AI Wireless Operation - when AI meets Cisco Meraki Wireless - BRKEWN-2039 Minse Kim & Christopher Graves W
Minse Kim
(Overview on what’s coming)
-AI RF management
-AI AP location
-AI Packet capture
-Now, Calatlyst Center = Meraki
-Defines the Meraki RF Health Metric
Notes from this talk:
-For AI-RRM, you must have Meraki Wi-FI 6 or newer APs
-Recommended MR31.1+ (min MR30.6)
-MR-ADV License
-AP Auto Locate (1:00:09 timestamp)
Notes from Auto Locate/Packet Capture- Christopher Graves W:
-MR78, MR46, MR44*, MR36H, MR56, MR76*, MR36, MR57, CW9162, CW 9164, CW9166 (released in *2H CY25)
-MR57, CW9162, CW9164, CW9166- need the external CW-ACC-GPS1 part
-MR31.1 -MR Enterprise License
-GNSS data based on an internal or external GPS module using fine time measurement
-Anchor APs must be near a window that has a clear line of sight to the sky
-AI Packet Captures MR31.1.1 - trigger on a bad roam
Harnessing the Meraki Cloud Day 0 to Day N with Terraform and Event-Driven Ansible - BRKOPS-2025 John Shea
Automation can speed up time-intensive processes like infrastructure deployment, reducing time to operation and potential errors.
-Meraki.io website for APIs
-Lifecycle Automation
-Day 0 and beyond with Meraki and Terraform
-Automate Operations with Event Driven Ansible
Terraform:
-Infrastructure Provisioning (Mutable and Immutable)
-Provision Quickly and Accurately
-Meraki/Catalyst REST APIs supported
-Open Source/Support Based Models
-Official Providers for IOS-XE, Meraki
-No/Low Programming experience required
-How to create 10 new Meraki networks at once (33:00:00 timestamp)
-https://graphviz.org
Meraki Unleashed: Programmatic Access, Programmatic Action - DEVNET-2482 John Hartman
-Webhooks (a push vs. an API pull)
-Use API Key as an environmental variable
-Megaproxy 100 requests per second per IP
-Shard 10 requests per second per organization
-Webhooks: Unsolicited, Event-driven/real-time, Encrypted (should be), Authenticated (should be), Reliably-transported (TCP), Lightweight protocol, Verbose, Machine-friendly formatting (key value pairs)
-”webhook.site”: free webhook collector (timestamp 14:30)
-API Callbacks (timestamp 17:00)
-Network as a Sensor MQTT Publishers/Broker/Payload/Subscribers (timestamp 18:10)
-Brokers: VM Open Source on a laptop, then Mosquito (there are other OpenSource)
-Launch: Manual/Cron/Fork Persistence/Precision
Meraki AIOps & Assurance – Optimizing Wireless User Experience at Scale! - BRKEWN-2014 Richard Jang
-AP Auto Locate (timestamp ~ 13:00)
-AI RRM reduce channel changes and client disruption (timestamp 16:35)
-Trend Based RRM/Busy Hour/Flexible Radio Assignment
-Roaming Scores (timestamp ~43:00)
-Client details and statistics
-Org Alerts page (timestamp 51:45)
-Overview AP AutoLocation/AI-Enhanced RRM/Assurance Overview/Roaming Analytics/Client Analytics/Alerts and RCAs
Understanding Meraki Licensing - CISCOU-1028 Alan Gardner
Saving Energy and Money with Your Cisco Wireless Network - BRKEWN-2043 Simone Areas
-Cool AP power off when not in use (~55:00)
Overcoming Key Challenges in Modern WiFi Deployments - VILENT-1010 Ivan Muccini
-Turn Key Solutions with Wi-Fi Analytics, onboarding, apartments
Making Sense of IoT: Turning Data into Real-World Results - CNCIOT-1003 Fredd Whipp Mpro5
-Meraki & IoT use
Demystifying the Role of Applied AI in Your Cisco Wireless Deployments - BRKEWN-3007 Vishal Desai
-General AI discussion
API design principles and considerations for massive scale - CISCOU-2038 John M. Kutchka
-API Introduction
Meraki MG with AT&T 5G cloud-managed eSIM: accelerate your deployments with connectivity built-in! - CNCENT-1007 Jason Seiffert
ISE Your Meraki Network with Group Based Adaptive Policy - BRKSEC-2100 Thomas Howard, Alex Burger
-Good Detail on ISE
-Nice matrix on ISE feature support on Meraki/Wi-Fi (timestamp ~49:00)
-IPSK database integration to Meraki (timestamp ~53:00)
-MDM/802.1X supplicant (timestamp ~1:00:00)
-Script references to help import policy (timestamp ~1:25)
Design your Enterprise Wireless Network with Cisco Meraki - BRKEWN-2035 Simone Areas
-General working of Meraki APs & Dashboard
-Nice API definition screen (timestamp 18:59)
-Fast Secure Roaming (timestamp ~47:00)
-Shows limit of 1,500 MRs per profile (timestamp ~50:00)
-Reference to this document: Broadcast Suppression and Control Technologies for MR Access Points - Cisco Meraki Documentation
(timestamp 53:54)
-Slide about 802.11r not being supported (timestamp ~56:51)
-Network Design (timestamp ~58:00)
-No more than 10k mac addresses in the same L2 domain
-DHCP design considerations (timestamp ~1:06)
-Single SSID mapped to multiple VLANs, VLAN choice based on auth. Multicast to Unicast traffic (timestamp ~1:20)
-L3 roaming not recommended for more than 200 APs (timestamp ~1:14)