Chapter 1

Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics

This chapter provides an introduction to the Meraki Cloud architecture, including an overview of Meraki’s distributed hosting services around the world that enable the Dashboard and cloud management to function securely and reliably. We also take a look at how the Dashboard organization structure works to enable powerful and secure cloud-managed solutions at any scale. Many of the following topics and concepts will be revisited in greater detail throughout this book.

Dashboard Architecture

The first step in working with a Meraki-based cloud management platform is to understand the basic hierarchical structure of the Meraki Dashboard with regard to Dashboard administrators, organizations, networks, ...

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