Summary
As you’ve seen in this chapter, the Meraki platform utilizes the cloud to help present the Dashboard as a unified interface that is easy to navigate and embraces the power of cloud communication and management. This allows Meraki to offer features like the ability to easily view and manage firmware for an entire organization from a single page or provide detailed topology maps and troubleshooting information based on observed trends and behaviors in a network. These types of enhancements are only possible by aggregating client and device data in ways that were previously not feasible without the cloud. Meraki uses all of this and more to help drive a better administrator experience no matter what task you’re trying to accomplish.
Next, Chapter 4 introduces how you can further enhance the power of the Meraki platform through the use of automation, both inside and outside the Dashboard.