Cisco Meraki for Primary & Secondary Education

From Reception to Sixth Form and everything in between, the Cisco Meraki Cloud IT solution was built for the demands of modern schools

• High performing 802.11ac wireless access points are optimised for heavy classroom use and campus-wide deployments
• The Meraki solution provides complete end-to-end visibility and control over users of every age, devices, and applications
• Application management built in: block inappropriate sites, limit YouTube streaming, and prioritise educational apps
• Connect and manage every building or school within a trust with cloud managed UTM Security Appliances and Security Cameras
• The intuitive end-to-end Meraki solution is self-provisioning, selfoptimising, and self-healing, making it easy to deploy and manage without specialised training or dedicated staf
• Secure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile devices, Macs, and PCs from the cloud with Systems Manager mobility management
• The Meraki cloud architecture enables cost savings by eliminating hardware-based WiFi controllers and including all future firmware updates and feature releases, providing a future-proof solution

Provide complete visibility and control without dedicated staff

Reduce management complexity

• Unified Dashboard provides visibility and control over the entire network deployment, regardless of size
• Zero-touch provisioning with limited or zero on-site IT allows staff to save countless hours
• 3G/4G failover and Layer 3 and 7 traffic shaping provides connectivity in challenging environments
• Scale and adapt the network by quickly deploying additional hardware as needed, creating learning spaces anywhere without complexity



Effectively allocate resources

• Deploy 802.11ac APs with 3x faster speeds to serve 100+ users each in areas of heavy use
• Control bandwidth with built-in QoS, Layer 7 traffic shaping rules, and per-port configurations
• Define access and permissions by age or user group by partitioning SSIDs and setting granular policies
• Keep mobile devices up to date by deploying applications and updates with a single click



• Ensure safe and secure usage with automatically updated, industry-leading content filtering
• Protect students with built-in Google/Bing/Yahoo! Internet SafeSearch
• Enable educational YouTube videos without recreational or inappropriate content
• Create identity-based access policies, applying varying levels of filtering for teachers and students



Woldingham School: Connecting students in and out of the classroom

• Prestigious English girls boarding school with students from around the globe requires reliable, mobilefriendly, and secure network
• Woldingham School replaced patchwork, end-of-life solution with Meraki wireless, security, switching, and EMM
• Data collection and deep visibility into network usage and connectivity, simplifies traditionally complex tasks
• As a boarding school, having reliable connectivity allows students to easily connect with family, share successes, and even stream video in real time
• EMM allows IT to easily manage devices, push updates remotely, and integrate tech into lessons
• Automatic alerts, future-proof updates, and per-user configurations have put control back into the hands of IT

�Cisco Meraki is the whole package and it just works. We�ve learned more about our network in the past month than we have over the past 8 years. The girls are coming in and saying thank you now � this is their home.� �Edd Rogers, IT Operations Manager, Woldingham School

The easiest way to supervise 1:1 and BYOD devices

Enrolling school or student-owned devices in a mobility management program is the first step towards reducing the burden on IT. Cisco Meraki Systems Manager provides a simple, yet powerful solution to create a reliable and secure network environment.

1. Provision new 1:1 or BYOD devices

   • Enroll devices to Systems Manager at scale with Apple�s DEP without ever touching them
   • Establish initial configurations, choose device setup process, or require install of the SM profile

2. Prevent management removal

   • Prevent users from removing the Systems Manager profile on supervised devices
   • Remotely keep supervised devices up to date with the latest settings and deployed content

3. Enforce settings & device restrictions

   • Tag devices and create profiles based on department, class, or grade
   • Enable access to WiFi and set restrictions (e.g. deny access to device features or content ratings)

4. Ensure device security

   • Enable web content filtering to prevent access to inappropriate content
   • Establish a geofence perimeter that auto-applies settings at school and alerts when devices leave

5. Deploy & keep applications up-to-date

   • Purchase apps with VPP and use device tags for deployment (reclaim and reassign as needed)
   • Silently push new apps to supervised devices without entering Apple IDs or passwords

6. Teacher�s Assistant � supporting the digital classroom

   • Collection of features ideal for education � exceptionally popular in primary school
   • Teacher management interface, Classroom controls, Automated class material delivery, and Shared use devices

100% Cloud Managed IT Product Family

Wireless (MR): Supports 100+ users per AP for high density 1:1 classroom deployments and BYOD

Security (MX): Feature rich security and networking, with up-to-date content filtering and AMP

Switching (MS): Centrally managed Layer 3 Ethernet switches designed for reliability and performance

EMM (SM): Cloud-based centralised management of iOS devices, Androids, Macs, PCs, and more

Communications (MC): Simple to install and manage telephony for deployments of any size

Security Cameras (MV): Standalone cameras with remote viewing, analytics, and motion control search

Award Winning Cloud Management Architecture

Network-wide visibility and control No on-site controller hardware Automatic monitoring and alerts Seamless over-the-web upgrades Scales to networks of all sizes

Documentation:

Download the Cisco Meraki for Primary & Secondary Education Data Sheet (.PDF)