Case Study: Hydroscand AB achieves remote, rapid multi-site deployments and unified network management with Cisco Meraki

How IT team configured & planned deployments using a dashboard, without going on-site

Hydroscand AB, the Scandinavian market leader in hydraulic hoses and fluid components with warehouses and stores across 17 countries, faced a distributed, high‑density networking challenge: steel‑packed warehouses, fluorescent interference, forklift radio noise, and dozens of remote sites with little or no on‑site IT. After rejecting other vendors for cost, missing features, or lack of transparency, Hydroscand selected Cisco Meraki (Security & SD‑WAN, Switching, Wireless LAN) to meet requirements for scalability, encryption, high availability and a simple management model for a small IT team.

Using Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, MS switches and MR34 802.11ac access points managed via the Meraki cloud dashboard, Hydroscand remotely planned and configured deployments (even from a phone), provisioned segmented SSIDs with 802.1X RADIUS and captive portals, and established self‑healing site‑to‑site VPNs to an MX400 in the Stockholm datacenter. The result: a new warehouse was operational in two days, rollouts across six countries using only blueprints and photos, centralized management from HQ, and measurable efficiency gains (Oslo coverage reduced APs from 16 to 10 MR34s). Cisco Meraki’s dashboard also cut configuration time from hours to minutes and delivered centralized reporting and policy control.

Hydroscand AB

Ronnie Wallman

Systems Engineer