Improve operational continuity and enable your business to grow with Valiant Technology’s IT Assessment process and Meraki’s Wi-Fi 6 network hardware.

1. Wi-Fi 6: A New Era of
Wireless Networking
Improve operational continuity and enable your business to grow with
Valiant Technology’s IT Assessment process and Meraki’s Wi-Fi 6
network hardware.
Infrastructure

2. Today’s Hosts
Maryann Dobrowolski
Training Specialist
Valiant Technology
Samuel Andersen
Systems Engineer
Cisco Meraki

3.  Managed Service Provider
 Established in 2002
 Tech support & expert
consulting
 Focused on enabling growth
through properly leveraging
technology
We work closely with businesses
at all levels to gain a deep
understanding of their
challenges and implement
people-first solutions to enable
business growth.

4. Information is
Modern Currency
 Modern businesses must align technology
with business goals to enable growth
 Data protection strategies protect and allow
for operational continuity
 Save time and money by planning and
budgeting for technology needs
Meraki MR45
Access Points in our Lab

5. IT Assessments
 Designed to identify and mitigate existing
risks before they become costly problems
 Results in technology roadmap based on
findings provides a clear path to technology
that is aligned with your business, resilient,
and secure
Darren Daley
Development & Automation Manager

6. Assessment
Overview
 Data collection
 Security evaluation and phishing simulations
 Network infrastructure scan and wireless
heatmap
 vCIO review

7. Data Collection
 Inventory assessment discovers technology
age, status, and coverage
 IT Questionnaire reviews business needs,
evaluates service contracts, identifies risks
and defines requirements for data
protection
Maryann Dobrowolski
Training Specialist

8. Security Review
 Network scan identifies devices on your
network and raises red flags where potential
risk is found
 Phishing simulations send fake emails to
staff and reports on views/clicks to
determine where to focus security best
practices training efforts
Ian Terpening
Procurement Associate/Simulated Threat

9. Wi-Fi
Heatmapping
 Provides a visual representation of device
density and identifies dead spots on wireless
networks
 Optimizes wireless network configurations,
access point locations and numbers for
efficient operations

10. vCIO Review
 All data collected is reviewed by a Valiant
vCIO and other Valiant team members
 Assessment process concludes with a
meeting with our Chief Information Officer to
discuss findings and remediation paths
Justin Penchina
Chief Information Officer

11. Information
Becomes Actionable
Assessment Remediation Managed Service
Identify risks and discover
opportunities with a
complete review of your IT
infrastructure, security,
and operational resilience.
Results are benchmarked
against our best practices
and used to design a
technology roadmap.
Engineers design solutions
to solve identified
problems and align your
technology with our best
practices, improving
stability and security, and
enabling your technology
to scale with your
business.
360° monitoring, proactive
support, and vCIO
consulting keeps your
technology running
smoothly while our
training services improve
workplace satisfaction
and maintain security.

12. Why Valiant
Chooses Meraki
 Meraki’s approach is aligned with our
philosophy on network design
 Stability – Reliable, powerful hardware that
is constantly updated
 Security – MFA, guest isolation and walled
gardens are standard
 Scalability – Meraki’s dashboard simplifies
management as your needs grow
James Durante
Senior Reactive Service Technician

13. Meraki: The Next Generation
of Wireless Access
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802.11ax

14. About
Cisco Meraki
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THE MERAKI MISSION
Simplifying powerful technology to free
passionate people to focus on their mission.

15. The Undisputed Leader in
Cloud-Based Networking
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58% cloud wi-fi
market share
Wireless Health
800,000 networks
420,000+ active
customers
120 million+
devices seen
daily
45+ million
API requests
served daily
2 million
Dashboard
visits daily

16.  Unlimited throughput, no bottlenecks
 Add devices or sites in minutes
Out-of-band Cloud
Management
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Reliability and security information at meraki.cisco.com/trust
 Simple browser-based dashboard
 Cloud-hosted centralized management platform
Intuitive
Scalable

17. Out-of-band Cloud
Management
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Reliability and security information at meraki.cisco.com/trust
 Highly available cloud with multiple data centers
 Network functions even if connection to cloud is interrupted
 99.99% uptime SLA
Reliable
 No user traffic passes through Meraki cloud
 Can fully support a HIPAA- / PCI-compliant network (level 1
certified)
 Third party security audits, daily penetration testing
 Automatic firmware and security updates (user-scheduled)
Secure

18. Wi-Fi 6: More
Than Just Speed
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High-Density
Environments
Enhanced
Experiences
Internet
of Things

19. Wi-Fi 6: More
Than Just Speed
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Enhanced Reliability
8X8 deterministic capacity
Longer Battery Life
Up to 3x
High Density
High performance + clients
Higher Throughput
Up to 4.8 Gbps
802.11ax

20. Wi-Fi 6: Backwards
Compatibility
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Wi-Fi 6 APs are backwards compatible with
legacy clients.

21. Wi-Fi 6 key technologies
spatial diversity and MU-MIMO
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● MU-MIMO
● Ability to transmit to or receive from up to 8 clients simultaneously
● Clients transmit data faster. Efficiency of transmission is better and clients are able to get off the air
faster.
8 x 8 : 8
8 Spatial Streams8 Receivers8 Transmitters
High Downstream and Upstream Throughput
High Receiver reliability or lower latency

22. Wi-Fi 6 key technologies
Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiple Access
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Up to 9 clients can share a single 20 MHz channel
thereby communicating simultaneously with the
Access Point.

23. Is Your Network
Healthy?
 Identify risks to your business
 Know what needs to be replaced, when, and
how plan a budget
 Upgrade your Wi-Fi and network
 Save money and reduce risk while improving
security, efficiency, and productivity
James Durante
Senior Reactive Service Technician

24. Request an
IT Assessment
To request an IT Assessment from Valiant
Technology, call us at (646) 775-2771 or email
sales@thevaliantway.com.
 Exclusive gift drawing for webinar
participants
 Sign up for an IT Assessment and receive
$500 off the purchase of Meraki hardware
James Durante
Senior Reactive Service Technician

25. Thank you!
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To learn more about Valiant’s services and how your
business can benefit from Meraki’s network hardware,
drop us a line!
Further Reading
Visit Valiant Technology’s website and blog to lean
more about us and our approach to managed
service: https://thevaliantway.com
(646) 775-2771 sales@thevaliantway.com