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Cisco Meraki
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Basic information
Founded 2006
Legal Structure
Industry
Also known as
Official website http://meraki.cisco.com/

Cisco Meraki is a company providing subscription-based cloud-managed networking hardware. Company was previously friendly to open-source.[1][2][3]

Consumer-impact summary

Locked down hardware (SecureBoot) since ~2018.[4][5] Hardware before 2018, or with SecureBoot exploits may be reflashable to OpenWRT.[1][6]

Built on open source, but delays releasing source code[7][8], and/or releases source code that doesn't build[9][8].

Creates tons of e-waste (e.g, on eBay).

Some models may brick if tampered with.[10]


User freedom

User privacy

Business model

Subscription-based cloud-managed networking hardware. Primarily for businesses.

Market control

Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product line. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Cisco Meraki category.

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Products

This is a list of the company's product lines with articles on this wiki.

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For the latest on OpenWrt device support, see OpenWrt's site.

MX Series

Product Series Products Launch Description Secure Boot? OpenWrt Support Notes Link
MX60 2011-07-13 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mx60
MX400 2012-01-18
MX600 2012-01-18
MX80 2012-01-18 Sort of Missing APM86290 support in mainline Linux https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-cisco-meraki-mx80/16572/32
MX90 2012-01-18
MX60W 2012-10-09
MX64 MX64
MX64W 		2015-02-05 Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mx64
MX84 2015-11-10
MX65 MX65
MX65W 		2016-02-12 No Yes
MX250 2017-09-12
MX450 2017-09-12
MX67 MX67
MX67W
MX67C 		2018-08-28 Yes No
MX68 MX68
MX68
MX68CW 		2018-08-28 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cisco-meraki-mx68w/134895
MX100 Pre-2014 No Yes
MX105 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/meraki-mx105-lets-see-if-we-can-figure-this-out/170841/3
MX75
MX85 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-meraki-mx85/207538
MX95

MR Series

Wireless access point devices

Product Description Launch/Announce Secure Boot? OpenWrt Support Notes Link
MR62 2011-08-23
MR66 2011-08-23
MR32 2014-12-09 Yes
MR72 2014-12-09
MR53 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac Wave 2 cloud-managed access point. 2016-05-25 No No missing QSGMII support in dwmac-ipq806x driver https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr53/67505/26
MR52 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac Wave 2 cloud-managed access point. 2016-06-24 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr52
MR84 2016-09-13
MR30H 2016-12-06 Yes, dropped?
MR32 Yes but no wifi. Broadcom reference fw works tho https://forum.openwrt.org/t/flash-meraki-mr32-new-method/108365/11
MR33 2016-12-06 No Yes™ Bootloader may brick itself if tampered https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13
MR74 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac cloud-managed access point. 2017-03-08 Yes Soon™ https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13#issuecomment-3267672239
MR20
Go GR10 		dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac cloud-managed access point. 2018-01-29 Yes https://watchmysys.com/blog/2026/02/openwrt-for-meraki-mr20-mr70-go-gr10-and-go-gr60/
MR70
Go GR60 		2018-01-29 Yes https://watchmysys.com/blog/2026/02/openwrt-for-meraki-mr20-mr70-go-gr10-and-go-gr60/
MR42E 2018-02-01
MR53E 2018-02-01
MR12 No Yes
MR16 No Yes
MR18 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr18
MR24 Yes
MR26 Yes
MR28 dual-band enterprise Wi-Fi 6 cloud-managed access point.
MR34 No No Unsupported broadcom wireless https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr34
MR42 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr42
MR44 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr44/117409
MR46 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr46/143499/21
MR36 No u-boot source is available https://forum.openwrt.org/t/mr36-bootloader-uboot-source-code/204097

MS Series

Network switches

Product Series Products Launch SecureBoot
MS120 MS-120-8 2017-09-12 Yes
MS210 2017-09-12 “MS120 series is not supported. Won't be supported unless a workaround to boot unsigned code is found.” https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cisco-meraki-mx68w/134895/13
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-meraki-ms120-8lp/59212
https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder/issues/11
MS22 MS22
MS22P 		2012-01-18
MS220 MS220-8P
MS220-24
MS220-24P
MS220-48
MS220-48LP
MS220-48FP 		2013-06
2013-11-05
?
?
?
?
MS225 2016-12-06 No “there is a beta firmware available for the MS225. Email me if you'd like to participate in testing.” https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder/issues/23
MS250 2016-12-06
MS320 MS320-24
MS320-24P
MS320-48
MS320-48LP
MS320-48FP 		?
?
?
?
2013-11-05
MS42 MS42
MS42P 		2012-01-18
MS420 MS420-24
MS420-48 		?
2013-06
MS350-24X 2016-05-25

Other Products

Product Launch Product Description Link
Z1 2012-10-09
Z3 2017-09-12 "remote work gateway" https://watchmysys.com/blog/2024/04/breaking-secure-boot-on-the-meraki-z3-and-meraki-go-gx20/
Go GX20 "remote work gateway" https://watchmysys.com/blog/2024/04/breaking-secure-boot-on-the-meraki-z3-and-meraki-go-gx20/
Z3C 2018-08-28
MC74 2016-05-25 VoIP phone

See also

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://watchmysys.com/blog/2024/04/breaking-secure-boot-on-the-meraki-z3-and-meraki-go-gx20/
  2. ↑ https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr53/67505/4
  3. ↑ https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63838
  4. ↑ https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cisco-meraki-mx68w/134895
  5. ↑ https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder/issues/11#issuecomment-751338881
  6. ↑ https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/start
  7. ↑ https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr44/117409/5
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr46/143499/64
  9. ↑ https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr46/143499/60
  10. ↑ https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13
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