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Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls is a combined UTM and Software-Defined WAN solution. Meraki is managed via the cloud, and provides core firewall services, including site-to-site VPN, plus network monitoring.
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What is Cisco Meraki MX?
Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Software-Defined WAN solution. As a UTM product, Meraki MX provides content filtering, app-specific traffic control, intrusion prevention, malware protection, and site-to-site VPN that is deployable on hardware or virtually. It also enables firewall management remotely for 24x7 monitoring and accessibility.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls is a combined UTM and Software-Defined WAN solution. Meraki is managed via the cloud, and provides core firewall services, including site-to-site VPN, plus network monitoring.
Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Fortinet FortiGate, and SonicWall TZ are common alternatives for Cisco Meraki MX.
Reviewers rate Visualization Tools and VPN highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of Cisco Meraki MX are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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June 15, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX is the best cloud based firewall
Our organization solely running on Cisco Meraki MX, which can provide threat pretension, URL filtering, and APP filtering as per our corporate requirement. Also, we have a few sites that need seamless connectivity between the head office and branches, and Cisco Meraki MX can provide strong and reliable connectivity between the branches and the head office.
- App filtering
- VPN
- Threat prevention
- Improve flexible rule configuration between site to site vpn
- allow to create more granular time schedules
- enhance HA system
June 11, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX Review
We use the MX 250 in a few different ways. We have a couple that we use for SD WAN hubs and we have smaller MX devices. We use as the remote site VPN devices along with an endpoint. It also serve as an endpoint for our wireless network.
- The SD-WAN function is great. It's easy button essentially for extending our network to remote sites.
- I guess some of the troubleshooting information is very limited. The UI is, I guess part of having the easy button is there's not much you can customize. Really, it's what it is. Whatever you see is whatever you get, not much beyond that.
June 10, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
We use them as security appliances, edge appliances, predominantly at branch locations. They incorporate SD WAN tunnel connectivity between our branch locations and our hub locations at our data centers.
- The cloud native features within the Meraki dashboard are probably one of the greater benefits. It seems to be kind of the next evolution of the D-M-V-P-N solution. Cisco pioneered many years ago, but being able to manage everything through the cloud, whether it's on our sd-wan or intentionally left off of our SD-WAN, is definitely an added benefit to the product.
- The biggest frustration with the MX series would be the firmware upgrade, not the procedure, but just the frequency of updates with the code. And oftentimes with the code there's caveats where there'll be reboots of the devices intermittently. So we've had issues with that. Typically in a Cisco iOS environment, we wait maybe six months or so after a code's released, make sure that a lot of the bugs are worked out. But with Meraki, there's a lot of security updates that become available immediately. So we want to adopt the new firmware a bit quicker, but it doesn't give a proper amount of time for the bugs to be worked out of that software before it gets put into our production environment.
June 10, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
We're using the MX series right now as well for a couple of things. For all of our branch locations as SD wan. We also use it as a VPN concentrator for all of our home users. Our home users, we have about 180 or so Z3s out just for people all over working from home. And then we have 21 branches that we come back to. Our head end, they're a combination. Some sites are about maybe a hundred users to maybe 300 users.
- I'm very happy with their analytics now with the tie in with Thousandeyes, it's been really great insight. We now are SD wan, so insight's been really good. So as you know, everyone blames the network and having that kind of analytics from a single pane glass has been wonderful.
- I think a lot of the software that's released is not quite baked even after it comes out of beta. We have a tendency to not rush anymore because we find that we're testing for Meraki and we've had some bad experiences where applications stop working, we have to do rollbacks and when we're running a 24/7 operation in hospitals, it's a lot less than convenient. I think that's one of our biggest headaches. Also, sometimes tech support, they used to be great when they were in Meraki and then when Cisco took over, they're just not what they used to be.
June 10, 2024
Cisco
Well, we've deployed Meraki use to everyone of our branches, so it gives us insight into whether the systems are up or down, whether people can connect. We also have our wifi implemented in the majority of our offices, which also is Meraki based, so that goes through our Meraki MX. We can go from that to do a speed test just to see how everything is functioning. We can see what devices are connected to our network. We can set different data caps on how much we can allow people, how much bandwidth people can use. So as we're not saturating the infrastructure with somebody who's downloading a bunch of reports or playing music, we can actually cap that. So as they're only able to download so much at a time.
- I'm going to say one of my favorites is the overall dashboard where I can actually see geographically, because we're spread across Canada, I can see geographically if their site happens to be up or down just based on the green dot or the red dot, that happens to show up on the map. And to me that's great for starting your day. You get to see, "is everybody online" first thing this morning, so that is wonderful.
- So I think that what we've noticed is the template, and I don't actually configure the Meraki, so that's done by our network team that works under me. But what I'm getting from some of the feedback is that with the Meraki we're a little bit limited into the template as to what we can set up for each template individually. And I'm kind of getting that it has to be based on region, it's not really what we want. So we end up with different templates that we have right now that aren't quite meeting our needs. I don't know if a newer version of Meraki might have that issue addressed already, but I find the template isn't as diverse as what I would like it to be.
June 10, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
It was for the teleworkers, working from home when Covid hit, we needed a product that we could deploy and allow call centers to be moved off-premise and this is what we used, so it worked out.
- The VPN tunneling between campus and our individual home users is great and it was good for troubleshooting and it provided one POE port for an IP set so a call center can bring their phones home with them and it continue to work.
- Maybe a couple, maybe two POE ports per unit. That's about it. Everything else I think seems to work out very well for us.
June 07, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX review
Cisco Meraki MX has been a great aquisition since it allows us to manage our interely wan from one place. Also it is very simple to use, we can deploy a full mesh VPN topology in minutes and with 3 clicks. It is amazing what this technology piece from Meraki can do!
- Wan load balancing
- Central Management
- Auto VPN
- More than 2 wan interfaces simultaneously
- Support for full ospf
- Device real time debug
June 07, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX appliances for small businesses
We have deployed Cisco Meraki MX appliances to fully mesh our retail locations and provide connectivity between locations.
- Meshed connectivity
- Easy management of appliance in one place
- Easy management of dhcp and vlans
- Monitoring of secondary WAN connections
- Ability to have firewall rules specific to only one WAN connection for failover purposes
June 07, 2024
Love Cisco Meraki MX! Keep improving!
I use Cisco Meraki MX internally for my offices and also sell to my clients.
Provide secure connectivity on the edge.
Provide secure connectivity on the edge.
- Ease of use
- Automation
- Innovative
- Can be more granular with permissions
- Can be more granular with alerting
February 28, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX does it well, but do not expect NGFW
Score 9 out of 10
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Cisco Meraki MX is a basic firewall that can act as a router, NAT device, or remote VPN termination point. It can be used in a router on the stick model with VLAN defined localy and trunk configured towards LAN switches. It can also be used as pass through concentrator, one armed mode. Cisco Meraki MX supports HA, basic firewalling, IPS, AMP, and SD-WAN.
- AutoVPN - Easy deployable VPN solution for secure site to site communications
- Intuitive GUI
- Cloud management, with zero touch deployment
- Good integration with other Meraki products
- Good integration with Cisco Umbrella SSE
- OSPF is limited to send routes
- BGP has very limited configuration, just IP and ASN. No option for BPG communities, route-maps, filtering
- Source NAT over AutoVPN is not enabled. Need to raise ticket with support
- IPS is very basic
- Overall do not expect full blown NGFW, but it is easy to implement, understand and will be sufficient for medium business
February 13, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX allows us to deploy a single solution to our office networks across our locations with easy central management for both configuration and monitoring. Due to the nature of the platform, onboarding new use cases and integrations like ThousandEyes and Webex Spaces we continue to get more out of our original investment.
- Ease of configuration
- Simple maintenance
- Would like to have the ability to stage and schedule changes
- Native Azure identity integration
- Better UI for firewall rules
February 12, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX review
We use Cisco Meraki MX for the Meraki SD Wan solution to connect about 400 physical sites. It helps us to move from an old MPLS topology, we gain in simplicity and independance as we have the total control of our WAN even if we are still dependant of ours ISP.
- SDWAN
- Routing
- DNS conditional redirection
- Firewall rules
February 11, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
Replaced all CheckPoint firewalls with Cisco Meraki MX to get SD-WAN and global oversight.
- SD-WAN
- Oversight
- Bandwidth utilization
- FQDN
- Firewall rules grouping
- Application rules
February 09, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX Overview
SD-WAN and firewalling for customers. Customers use it to create VPN tunnels to connect their sites and distribute traffic over different WAN Links. It is also used as a router, a firewall and policies are also applied to the network. Sometimes DHCP is also used, but often, customers reside in their own DHCP server.
- Easy to use
- SDWAN
- Monitoring of VPNs
- STP for HA
- Firewall Logs
- More clear documentation for Licenses
February 09, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX
As a perimeter firewall and sd-wan solution. Customers need a simple configuration product and a single telemetry dashboard.
- AutoVPN
- Configuration simplicity
- Info on dashboard
- Cisco Meraki MX doesn't support lacp aggregate on lan ports
- Not able to add wan links as you want. You strictly depend on up to 2 physical wan ports
- Not able to configure non-Meraki VPN since you don't have a hub
February 08, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX Review
First problem solved, it is easy to use and install, we can help multiple customers with their network by increasing the time to go into production and at the same time lowering the cost.
Second problem we solved, it would be related with day 2 operations, the way we can interact via scripts with the equipment solve many problems for them.
Second problem we solved, it would be related with day 2 operations, the way we can interact via scripts with the equipment solve many problems for them.
- Securing outbound access
- Providing information about the network
- Setting up site to site VPNs
- Setting up auto VPN between same customer appliances
- Logs of firewall rules, right now you need something external to do it
- More flexibility for l7 applications
February 08, 2024
Easy to use, and provides transparence to your network
We use the Cisco Meraki MX series as the firewall. Cisco Meraki MX has made it very easy to configure and monitor the traffic. This has helped us maintain a high level of uptime at the performance levels we need. The integration with ThousandEyes expand information we have and can help us quickly get information about potential performance issues. The integration of Anyconnect VPN allows our staff to work remotely with seamless access to resources on campus. When the network is dependable, it becomes a transparent asset to day to day operation.
- Threat detection and monitoring. Great visual information about detections.
- Easy to configure and maintain.
- Reliable. It just works.
- Integration - single portal - with their other products.
- Map and floor plan area is clunky.
- The way you need to segment devices by network causes you to need to go to different dropdowns to see everything at a single site. They have improved this and now allow you to add firewall, switches and wireless to create a single site, but still a bit clunky.
February 08, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX, a Real Firewall ?
We use the Cisco Meraki MX for location coupling via SD-WAN and the connection to our cloud. The Cisco Meraki MX can be seen as a rudimentary firewall with basic functions. We also use the Cisco Meraki MX for AMP and IDS/IPS. Client VPN connections are terminated at the main location (Secure access).
- Client VPN
- SD Wan Connections
- IDS/IPS
- The firewall's livelog is missing
- IDS / IPS Livelog (detail) is missing
- Inside NAT (Source NAT)
February 08, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX rules
Customer placed Equipment for SMB customers solving security and Wi-Fi business needs for our customers.
- Security
- Stability
- Simplicity
- User friendly
- Much better SD-WAN
- All in one box with 5G an Wi-Fi. 7
- Much better API
February 08, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX review
With the dynamic changes in applications and hybrid work, we required an approach to provide ease of working for users within our office based upon new requirements. Focused on simple, secure connectivity for users based on internet first connectivity. Cisco Meraki MX platform as a whole, enabled streamlined deployment, troubleshooting and connectivity for the office.
- Ease of management
- Secure connectivity
- Advanced troubleshooting with connectivity to ThousandEyes
- More advanced configuration options for advanced administrators
February 05, 2024
I love Cisco Meraki MX
We are a Cisco Meraki MX partner and sell all Meraki solutions, including wifi and security services. Sometimes, we find that Mx products are simple and can’t do many things that we could have done in the past with the Cisco Asas. We would like to perform sources nats or also split dns like in fortunate or sonic wall firewalls
- AutoVPN
- Integration with Umbrella and other cisco products
- Cisco secure client VPN
- Simplicity and easy to use
- More complexed NATs , PATS, source NATs, VPN NATs, etc…
- Some snort rules doesn’t applies sometimes
- Split dns tunneling
February 05, 2024
The entire Meraki product line is extremely reliable, easy to manage, and cost effective
In 2014 I had a new remote client in the DC area. I had them purchase a Meraki MX-84 as part of a new security process. The MX-84 was easy to install, especially with assistance from Meraki, and is still performing perfectly today as we research a replacement unit from Meraki. This device has had zero downtime, supports more than 50 users, an has been an integral component within a "living security plan" featuring multiple layers of security. Cisco Meraki MX Support has been timely and professional whenever we have needed to change system settings. I have working in IT since 1989 and the entire Meraki product line is extremely reliable, easy to manage, and cost effective for smaller businesses, especially in occupations where compliance is a significant requirement.
- Management interface is easy to work with.
- Security is a primary consideration and is easy to manage.
- Compliance settings are easy to maintain
- Timely firmware updates.
- My only real suggestion is increased bandwidth on the lower end units as ISP performance, along with business needs, have significantly grown over the past decade.
January 24, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX Works for Us
We use Cisco Meraki MX appliances at each site to firewall internet service and to act as endpoint for SDWAN. It can Geofence each location and acts as Web filter, Intrusion Detection System also. The SDWAN allows each site to talk directly to the home site, or to connect to internet services as needed.
- Geofencing
- Firewall
- SDWAN
- URL Filtering
- Configuration can be slow
- In the console, movement from one network to another is very slow at times
- Each site must be separately configured
January 16, 2024
Cisco Meraki MXs are perfect for IT personnel. With great performance, reliability, and ease of use!
I have deployed and currently use the Cisco Meraki MX for a couple of different companies. Very rarely do we have issues regarding the Meraki Appliances. At my primary position, we use the Cisco Meraki MXs for VPN tunnel connections between office locations, Network Security, Routing, and Client VPN connections for remote work. Some locations that do not run a DHCP server at their site use the DHCP built into the MX (Basic DHCP is all available, including the ability to make reservations and adjust the scope).
- Site to Site VPN Tunnel
- Firewall Rules
- DHCP
- NAT Routing
- Blocking web traffic
- Client VPN Connections
- Port Forwarding
- The content filtering was changed from being able to set partial lists that the Appliance uses for blocking when using categories to using full lists provided by a 3rd party. It is not a huge deal. We had to change some things, but when Cisco Meraki MX changed to a full list of categories, one of our locations had really slow browsing speeds.
- You are able to add URLs to block in content filtering, and we are constantly having to add them to all our sites individually, which can take some time. I wish there was a way to add a URL to all sites in a batch. I have read you might be able to do through Meraki API connections, but I haven't looked too far into it.
- Sometimes, not all things are in the logs for the appliance, and I have to reach out to Cisco Meraki MX. I have implemented a syslog server and that did help a little.
January 16, 2024
Cisco Meraki MX - Out of the box Firewall
Cisco Meraki MX provides out of the box security for branch offices and also enables to connect to the head office or another MX located anywhere that has an internet connection. Intercommunication can be done without the need for a leased private line, which is expensive from the ISP. It is also very sleek and minimal configuration required since everything is on the cloud.
- Security
- Cloud Management
- Interconnectivity
- Ease of setup
- Privacy
- Option for local management
- Simplified interface
- Subscription costs