Cisco Meraki MS210-24 Switch

Cloud Management:

Cisco Meraki's cloud based management provides centralized visibility & control over Cisco Meraki's wired & wireless networking hardware, without the cost and complexity of wireless controllers or overlay management systems. Integrated with Cisco Meraki's entire product portfolio, cloud management provides feature rich, scalable, and intuitive centralized management for networks of any size.

Highlights

• Unified visibility and control of the entire network via a single dashboard: wireless, switching, and security appliances
• Streamlines large networks with tens of thousands of endpoints
• Zero-touch provisioning for rapid deployment
• Built-in multi site network management tools
• Automated network monitoring and alerts
• Intuitive interface eliminates costly training or added staff
• Network tagging engine - search and sync settings by tag
• Role-based administration and auditable change logs
• Continuous feature updates delivered from the cloud
• Highly available and secure (PCI / HIPAA compliant)

Cloud Managed Networks

Cisco Meraki's hardware products are built from the ground up for cloud management. As a result, they come out of the box with centralized control, layer 7 device and application visibility, real time web-based diagnostics, monitoring, reporting, and much more.

Cisco Meraki networks deploy quickly and easily, without training or dedicated staff. Moreover, Cisco Meraki provides a rich feature set that provides complete control over devices, users, and applications, allowing for flexible access policies and rich security without added cost or complexity.

Cisco Meraki's cloud management provides the features, security, and scalability for networks of any size. Cisco Meraki scales from small sites to campuses, and even distributed networks with thousands of sites. Cisco Meraki devices, which self-provision via the cloud, can be deployed in branches without IT. Firmware and security signature updates are delivered seamlessly, over the web. With the cloud, branches can automatically establish secure VPN tunnels between one another with a single click.

With a secure, PCI and HIPAA compliant architecture and fault tolerant design that preserves local network functionality during WAN outages, Cisco Meraki is field proven in high security and mission critical network applications.

Cloud Management Architecture

Cisco Meraki's architecture provides feature rich network management without on-site management appliances or WiFi controllers.

Every Cisco Meraki device - including wirelesss access points, Ethernet switches, and security appliances - connects over the Internet to Cisco Meraki's datacenters, which run Cisco Meraki's cloud management platform. These connections, secured via SSL, utilize a patented protocol that provides real time visibility and control, yet uses minimal bandwidth overhead (typically 1 kbps or less.)

In place of traditional command-line based network configuration, Cisco Meraki provides a rich web based dashboard, providing visibility and control over up to tens of thousands of Cisco Meraki devices, anywhere in the world. Tools, designed to scale to large and distributed networks, make policy changes, firmware updates, deploying new branches, etc. simple and expedient, regardless of size or location. Cisco Meraki's real time protocols combine the immediacy of on-premise management applications with the simplicity and centralized control of a cloud application.

Every Cisco Meraki device is engineered for cloud management. Specifically, this means that Cisco Meraki devices are designed with memory and CPU resources to perform packet processing, QoS, layer 3-7 security, encryption, etc. at the network edge. As a result, no network traffic passes through the cloud, with the cloud providing management functionality out of the data path. This architecture enables networks to scale horizontally, adding capacity simply by adding more endpoints, without concern for centralized bottlenecks or chokepoints. Equally important, since all packet processing is performed on premise, end-user functionality is not compromised if the network's connection to the cloud is interrupted.

Cisco Meraki's cloud platform is designed to spread computation and storage across independent server clusters in geographically isolated datacenters. Any server or datacenter can fail without affecting customers or the rest of the system. Additionally, Cisco Meraki's datacenter design is field proven to support tens of thousands of endpoints.

Powerful Insight and Troubleshooting Tools

Cisco Meraki's cloud architecture delivers powerful insight and includes live tools integrated directly into the dashboard, giving instant analysis of performance, connectivity, and more. Using live tools, network administrators no longer need to go on site to perform routine troubleshooting tests. Visibility into devices, users, and applications gives administrators the information needed to enforce security policies and enable the performance needed in today's demanding network environments.

Troubleshooting tools such as ping, traceroute, throughput, and even live packet captures are integrated directly into the Cisco Meraki dashboard, dramatically reducing resolution times and enabling troubleshooting at remote locations without on-site IT staff.

Layer 7 application visibility

Out-of-Band Control Plane

Cisco Meraki's out-of-band control plane separates network management data from user data. Management data (e.g., configuration, statistics, monitoring, etc.) flows from Cisco Meraki devices (wireless access points, switches, and security appliances) to Cisco Meraki's cloud over a secure Internet connection. User data (web browsing, internal applications, etc.) does not flow through the cloud, instead flowing directly to its destination on the LAN or across the WAN.

Advantages of an out of band control plane: Scalability Unlimited throughput: no centralized controller bottlenecks Add devices or sites without MPLS tunnels Add switching capacity without stacking limitations Reliability Redundant cloud service provides high availability Network functions even if management traffic is interrupted Security No user traffic passes through Cisco Meraki's datacenters Fully HIPAA / PCI compliant What happens if a network loses connectivity to the Cisco Meraki cloud? Because of Cisco Meraki's out of band architecture, most end users are not affected if Cisco Meraki wireless APs, switches, or security appliances cannot communicate with Cisco Meraki's cloud services (e.g., because of a temporary WAN failure): Users can access the local network (printers, file shares, etc.) If WAN connectivity is available, users can access the Internet Network policies (firewall rules, QoS, etc.) continue to be enforced Users can authenticate via 802.1X/RADIUS and can roam wirelessly between access points Users can initiate and renew DHCP leases Established VPN tunnels continue to operate Local configuration tools are available (e.g., device IP configuration) While Cisco Meraki's cloud is unreachable, management, monitoring, and hosted services are temporarily unavailable: Configuration and diagnostic tools are unavailable Usage statistics are stored locally until the connection to the cloud is re-established, at which time they are pushed to the cloud Splash pages and related functionality are unavailable

Cisco Meraki Datacenter Design

Cisco Meraki's cloud management service is colocated in tier-1, SAS70 type II certified datacenters. These datacenters feature state of the art physical and cyber security and highly reliable designs. All Cisco Meraki services are replicated across multiple independent datacenters, so that customer-facing services fail over rapidly in the event of a catastrophic datacenter failure.

Security Tools for Administrators

In addition to Cisco Meraki's secure out-of-band architecture and hardened datacenters, Cisco Meraki provides a number of tools for administrators to maximize the security of their network deployments. These tools provide optimal protection, visibility, and control over your Cisco Meraki network.

Two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to an organization's network by requiring access to an administrator's phone, in addition to her username and password, in order to log in to Cisco Meraki's cloud services. Cisco Meraki's two factor authentication implementation uses secure, convenient, and cost effective SMS technology: after entering their username and password, an administrator is sent an a one-time passcode via SMS, which they must enter before authentication is complete. In the event that a hacker guesses or learns an administrator's password, she still will not be able to access the organization's account, as the hacker does not have the administrator's phone. Cisco Meraki includes two-factor authentication for all enterprise users at no additional cost.

Password policies
Organization-wide security policies for Cisco Meraki accounts help protect access to the Cisco Meraki dashboard. These tools allow administrators to:

• Force periodic password changes (e.g., every 90 days)
• Require minimum password length and complexity
• Lock users out after repeated failed login attempts
• Disallow password reuse
• Restrict logins by IP address

Role-based administration
Role-based administration lets supervisors appoint administrators for specific subsets of an organization, and specify whether they have read-only access to reports and troubleshooting tools, administer managed guest access, or can make configuration changes to the network. This minimizes the chance of accidental or malicious misconfiguration, and restricts errors to isolated parts of the network.

Configuration change alerts
The Cisco Meraki system can automatically send human-readable email and text message alerts when configuration changes are made, enabling the entire IT organization to stay abreast of new policies. Change alerts are particularly important with large or distributed IT organizations.

Configuration and login audits
Cisco Meraki logs the time, IP, and approximate location (city, state) of logged in administrators. A searchable configuration change log indicates what configuration changes were made, who they were made by, and which part of the organization the change occurred in.

SSL certificates
Cisco Meraki accounts can only be accessed via https, ensuring that all communication between an administrator's browser and Cisco Meraki's cloud services is encrypted.

Idle Timeout
30 seconds before being logged out, users are shown a notice that allows them to extend their session. Once time expires, users are asked to log in again.

Specifications:

Interfaces

• 24 × 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ45) with auto-MDIX crossover
• 802.3af/802.3at Power-over-Ethernet (PoE/PoE+) on MS210-24P, available on all ports (maximum of 30W per port for PoE+)
• 4 × 1GbE SFP interfaces for uplink
• 2 × Stacking interfaces
• Auto negotiation and crossover detection

Management

• Managed via the cloud using the Meraki dashboard
• Integrated with Meraki Wireless and complete portfolio of IT products and solutions
• No-touch remote deployment (no staging needed)
• Detailed historical per-port and per-client usage statistics
• DHCP, client, and hostname fingerprinting
• SNMPd and SYSLOG support for integration with other network management solutions
• Seamless over-the-web firmware upgrades with scheduling & control

Remote diagnostics

• Email, SMS and Mobile push notification alerts
• Cable testing and link failure detection with alerting
• Live remote packet capture
• Dynamic and interactive network discovery and topology
• Aggregated event logs with instant search

Flexible stacking

• Physical stacking of up to 8 switches with 80 Gbps stack bandwidth on all models
• Virtual stacking supports thousands of switch ports in a single logical stack for unified management, monitoring, and configuration

Ethernet switching capabilities

• 802.1p Quality of Service prioritization
• 802.1Q VLAN tagging with 4,095 addressable tags
• 802.1w, 802.1D Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP, STP)
• Broadcast storm control
• 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
• 802.3ad link aggregation with up to 8 ports per aggregate, Multichassis aggregates supported on stacked switches
• IGMP snooping for multicast filtering
• MAC forwarding entries: 16K on 24-port models, 32K on 48-port models

Security

• Integrated two-factor authentication for Dashboard management
• Role-based access control (RBAC) with granular device and configuration control
• Corporate wide password policy enforcement
• IEEE 802.1X RADIUS, hybrid authentication and RADIUS server testing
• MAC-based RADIUS authentication (MAB)
• Port security: Sticky MAC, MAC whitelisting
• DHCP snooping, detection and blocking
• STP Enhancements: BPDU guard, Root guard
• IPv4 ACLs

Power over Ethernet:

• 802.3af (PoE) 15.4 W per port and 802.3at (PoE+) 30 W per port
• Maximum PoE output (24P): 370 W
• PoE available on all ports simultaneously

Performance

• Non-blocking switching fabric
• Switching capacity: 128Gbps (24-port models), 176Gbps (48-port models)
• Forwarding rate (mpps): 41.67 (24-port models), 77.38 (48-port models)
• Jumbo Frame Support (9578 byte Ethernet frame)
• Flow control support

Layer 3

• Static Routing (maximum of 16 static routes supported)
• DHCP Relay

Power

• Power input: 100 - 240 VAC, 47-63 Hz
• Power consumption: 15 - 448 W
• RPS interface: Requires RPS-2300 chassis, see Cisco RPS-2300 Datasheet for further information

Mounting

• 1U Rack-mountable with included rack mount hardware
• 2-post front mounting options available
• Desktop-mountable with included feet

Environment

• Operating temperature: 32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)
• Humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing
• MS225-24, MS225-48 feature fanless operation

Regulatory

• CSA-US (US, Canada)
• FCC (USA)
• IC (Canada)
• CE (Europe)
• RCM (Australia/New Zealand)
• RoHS

Warranty

• Full lifetime hardware warranty with next-day advanced replacement included

MTBF at 25°C

• MS210-24: 590,165
• MS210-24P: 391,648

Physical dimensions (H×W×D)

• MS210-24: 1.72 x 19.08 x 9.84"(4.38 x 48.46 x 25cm)
• MS210-24P: 1.72 x 19.08 x 9.84"(4.38 x 48.46 x 25cm)

Physical Weight

• MS210-24: 6.03 lb (2.73 kg)
• MS210-24P: 8.18 lb (3.71 kg)