Case Study: Bidwells achieves seamless, low-cost work-anywhere Wi‑Fi across 12 offices with Cisco Meraki

Bidwells - Customer Case Study

Bidwells, the UK’s leading regional property consultants, needed consistent, high-performance wireless across 12 offices in England and Scotland to support 450 agents and staff and a company-wide iPhone rollout. Their legacy, ad hoc access points in Cambridge offered poor coverage and the other offices had no Wi‑Fi; Bidwells required seamless roaming, centralized control from Cambridge, and a way to offload mobile data to Wi‑Fi. They selected Cisco Meraki cloud-managed wireless (Meraki APs) to address these challenges.

Cisco Meraki delivered a quick one-month trial and a two-week rollout of 36 Meraki APs with centralized cloud management, 802.1X and Active Directory authentication, and Power over Ethernet flexibility. The Meraki solution “just worked,” enabled a new work‑anywhere culture, uncovered an office wiring issue via reporting, and routed iPhone traffic to Wi‑Fi to cut mobile costs; Bidwells estimates approximately 60% savings versus a traditional solution, with about 200 clients now accessing the network monthly.

Bidwells

Nick Haynes

IT Manager