Case Study: Rowan County achieves centralized, cloud-managed secure networking with Cisco Meraki

Simple cloud management of APs, switches, users, and devices

Rowan County, North Carolina’s Information Systems team supports 22 major departments and needed a simple, scalable, and secure way to replace end-of-life controllers and support distributed sites with limited dedicated network staff. To meet those challenges they turned to Cisco Meraki, deploying MR wireless access points, MS switches, MX Security & SD‑WAN appliances and Z1 teleworker gateways.

Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed MX/MS/MR solution provided a single SSID with group policies to prioritize county-owned devices, centralized dashboard visibility into switches, ports, applications, users and devices, and site-to-site VPN split tunneling for direct Internet access while routing voice/video back to the core. The deployment improved manageability and reliability across 22 departments, enabled remote troubleshooting and easy scaling, and consolidated network control under Cisco Meraki’s single-pane cloud dashboard.

Rowan County

Randy Cress

Systems and Network Manager