Chapter 1
Meraki’s History
In this chapter, you learn the following:
The history of Meraki from research project to start-up to Cisco’s acquisition
In 2001, less than 12 percent of Americans had Internet access in the home, and of those who did, more than 40 percent were using dial-up. Even though the global home Internet access market was small, Internet subscribers were growing very quickly, making it a boom time for Internet service providers (ISPs). Furthermore, there was already a major shift to adopt premium broadband services, with the number of broadband customers in the US doubling between 2001 and 2003.1 At that time, the cost to ISPs to provide wired broadband connectivity to homes, commonly referred to as the “last mile,” was prohibitively ...
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