Case Study: Clune Construction achieves fast remote deployments and reliable, secure WiFi with Cisco Meraki

Plug and play APs with mesh routing facilitate fast deployment for remote team

Clune Construction, a multi-site interior construction firm with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., faced unreliable, hard-to-manage legacy access points while a three-person IT team supported offices and short-term job sites across 22 states. Because staff rely on iPads and mobile devices for markups, drawings and 3-D models, Clune needed seamless, secure mobility and easy guest access — so they trialed Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN plug-and-play APs and the cloud-managed Dashboard.

Cisco Meraki implemented plug-and-play APs with mesh routing and centralized cloud management, enabling automatic provisioning for new offices and rapid field-site deployments by simply plugging in shipped units. The Meraki solution delivered reliable WiFi that supports large project-file transfers and BIM workflows, isolates guest traffic via splash pages, and generates reporting that reduced management overhead — with Clune now seeing over 20 GB of data flow across its network each week and much faster, simpler deployments.

Clune Construction

Eric Gardner

Director of IT