Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2012.

When did Cisco acquire Meraki?

– December 20, 2012 – Cisco today announced it has completed the acquisition of Meraki, Inc., a leader in cloud networking.

How was Meraki founded?

In 2006, two MIT grad students decided to turn their networking research into a startup called Meraki. Six years later, they sold it to Cisco for $1.2 billion. But when their time was up integrating Meraki into its new home, Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket decided to do something completely different.