Cisco Meraki MX Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Starting at $595 per appliance

Overview

What is Cisco Meraki MX?

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.

Recent Reviews

Cisco Meraki MX is the best cloud based firewall

9 out of 10

June 15, 2024

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Our organization solely running on Cisco Meraki MX, which can provide threat pretension, URL filtering, and APP filtering as per our …

Cisco Meraki MX Review

8 out of 10

June 11, 2024

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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 …

Cisco Meraki MX

8 out of 10

June 10, 2024

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We use them as security appliances, edge appliances, predominantly at branch locations. They incorporate SD WAN tunnel connectivity …

Cisco Meraki MX

10 out of 10

June 10, 2024

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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 …

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10 out of 10

June 10, 2024

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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 …

Cisco Meraki MX

10 out of 10

June 10, 2024

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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 …

Cisco Meraki MX review

8 out of 10

June 07, 2024

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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, …

Cisco Meraki MX appliances for small businesses

9 out of 10

June 07, 2024

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We have deployed Cisco Meraki MX appliances to fully mesh our retail locations and provide connectivity between locations.

Love Cisco Meraki MX! Keep improving!

8 out of 10

June 07, 2024

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I use Cisco Meraki MX internally for my offices and also sell to my clients.

Provide secure connectivity on the edge.

Cisco Meraki MX does it well, but do not expect NGFW

9 out of 10

February 28, 2024

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 …

Cisco Meraki MX

8 out of 10

February 13, 2024

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Cisco Meraki MX allows us to deploy a single solution to our office networks across our locations with easy central management for both …

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8 out of 10

February 12, 2024

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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, …

Cisco Meraki MX

10 out of 10

February 11, 2024

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Replaced all CheckPoint firewalls with Cisco Meraki MX to get SD-WAN and global oversight.

Cisco Meraki MX Overview

8 out of 10

February 09, 2024

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SD-WAN and firewalling for customers. Customers use it to create VPN tunnels to connect their sites and distribute traffic over different …

Cisco Meraki MX

7 out of 10

February 09, 2024

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As a perimeter firewall and sd-wan solution. Customers need a simple configuration product and a single telemetry dashboard.

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How Cisco Meraki MX Differs From Its Competitors

Simplified Management

Normally, Cisco Meraki MX helps to manage devices by making them on the cloud. So administration users can easily see the device status and network status and do configurations as required on the move. This gives solid experience in managing the network by reducing implementation and …

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Simplified Management

It's made scaling out to remote sites that would otherwise be more complex very, very simple, quick and simple.

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Simplified Management

We were able to combine three regional organizations with the Meraki that were administered separately. We were able to combine those under one single pane of glass globally. So our counterparts in Asia and EMEA and North America all operate under the same organization. So every MX is peering or …

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Simplified Management

Meraki's claim to fame is how easy it is to deploy. For example, during the pandemic we just sent Z3s out to our home users direct ship and we got the serial numbers and we said we knew where they were shipped, we had the serial numbers, we never had the zero touch.

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Simplified Management

We've benefited, my team is comprised of telephony and networks, so we're kind of merging the two together. So my subject matter experts for telephony aren't necessarily network experts, but with Meraki's design and ease use interface, it's actually enabled my telephony team to easily go in and …

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Simplified Management

It was very easy to deploy and it was very easy to help troubleshoot end users with issues that they said they had. Connectivity issues, latency issues, and stuff like that. We were able to use the Meraki reporting and find out, now we have Thousandeyes on our Meraki too, so it helps us with …

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Simplified Management

With Cisco Meraki MX we can keep a Lean IT team

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Simplified Management

We have one IT person and it has been easy to deploy changes network wide without having to log into multiple devices. Things just work without problems. We’ve been able to mess our entire network without having to know advanced networking to provide DNS redundancy and DR between our locations. We …

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Simplified Management

Our tier 1 support teams have been able to use the product to help t-shoot without spending too much time on things.

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Simplified Management

There is just one cloud console to configure all Cisco Meraki MX devices, so if you have 200 devices across the world, you can manage them via one centralized console as long as they have reachability to the internet. If you have branches split into regions (EMEA, APAC, etc.) then there is …

Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Meraki vMX, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Duo

On console (dashboard), simplified management, less network resources needed to support several hundred devices across the world. The solution is affordable.

Simplified Management

Previously we’ve had internal SMEs for various products related to networking, but now with Cisco Meraki MX, anyone in our team, can update deploy and configure our Meraki stack.

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Simplified Management

Our organization has a small operations team and only one network engineer, but with Cisco Meraki MX, our systems engineers are able to handle some incidents because the Cisco Meraki MX interface is user-friendly and intuitive.

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Simplified Management

The biggest benefit has been to be able to pre-configure all appliances before shipping to remote branch offices and being able to quickly assist with troubleshooting problems in offices without IT professionals present.

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point and Cisco Meraki vMX

Better oversight and control, everything in one easy to use dashboard, being able to connect entire network to the cloud infrastructure has lessened the burden of moving to the cloud.

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Simplified Management

APIs make it easy to deploy a lot of locations in a short amount of time. Monitoring at a high level is very easy. The entrance barrier for junior colleagues for small projects is very low. We can choose customers from all over the world since the configuration is in the cloud.

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Simplified Management

It sounds like zero touch provisioning. As long as the device has internet connectivity, we can download from Meraki Cloud all the configurations we previously made in the dashboard.

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Simplified Management

We deploy multiple Cisco Meraki MX and Meraki devices per month to all our clients, it's simple.

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), PacketFence, Webex App and Splunk Enterprise

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Simplified Management

We have very limited IT staff. This product has been very useful in allowing us to maintain a high level of service with the limited staffing we have.
The single portal integration with switches and APs gives us a seamless look at our network and helps us get to the root of potential issues and …

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Simplified Management

The firewall rules can be easily rolled out using templates. With a large set of rules, you quickly lose track of things; that's something that needs to be worked on. The security center provides rather less information; this is not enough to keep the operation running.

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Simplified Management

It has reduced time for the technical teams to make changes, upgrade the platform and troubleshoot issues.

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Simplified Management

We have a lot of remote sites and can manage autovpn automatically with a few clicks on a simple dashboard

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Simplified Management

Centralized management and product interfaces that follow established "looks" that are thematically similar with different details reduce training time on new products, which results in a more profitable bottom line for our company. The ability to manage multiple WiFi networks inside a business …

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Simplified Management

We can bring up a new small site in a few hours. It can be tested in the office just as it will be in the field. This lets us pre-configure and send an entire "network in a box" to a remote site. The remote site can then unpack plug and be running in a few minutes.

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Meraki MR and Cisco Meraki MV

In those locations where we can use all Cisco Meraki hardware, we have a higher visibility from end to end. We can also manage everything from the same base console, although each location is its own network with its own settings. This can be …

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Simplified Management

I find the Cisco Meraki MXs to be very easy to use until you get into heavy networking but that is also a knowledge thing and does not reflect poorly on the Cisco Meraki MX. I have been able to set up some complex networking on the Cisco Meraki MX, and the features provided allowed me to set up …

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and Cisco Meraki SM

All of the devices integrate into the web interface very well. All products are easy to use and set up. This makes deploying network devices for a new location very simple and fast. The MDM (SM) …

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Simplified Management

The device is set to work out of the box. All you need is to add the serial number of the MX in the Meraki dashboard to manage it. The MX works without any configuration since everything is in the allowed policy. Once the MX is online with an internet connection and is live on the Meraki …

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki MS and Cisco Meraki SM

The Meraki ecosystem works best with its other products in the same portfolio. The Meraki switches and Meraki wireless access points are seamless to integrate with each other and the same is all available under the organization in the Meraki …

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Simplified Management

We are able to see and manage the remote LANs we have up and down the east coast of the US with minimal fuss using Cisco Meraki compared to the unmanaged WAN we had prior to that. We have also been able to see the issues with ISPs and notify branches ahead of them calling us regarding issues.

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Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Catalyst 2960-L Series Switches, Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches, Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Webex Teams and Cisco Umbrella

We have been able to use various Cisco products but still be able to manage them and integrate without having to reconfigure a lot of systems. We are …

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Cisco Products Used for Hybrid Work

Webex Meetings Webex App Webex Calling Slido Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MR Cisco Meraki MS Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker

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Hybrid Work Model

Working from anywhere (e.g., coffee shop, airport) Working from an office or other company space Working from home

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Hybrid Work Implementation Progress

With Cisco Meraki and Weebx we have network and telephony solutions to fit all needs of all employees no matter their location.

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Organizational Challenges Faced

None as long as we used Cisco Webex and Meraki.

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Impact on Organizational Challenges

With the cloud management portals of Meraki and Webex our iT administration was easy and able to configure devices for access as well as calling, meetings, messaging with ease.

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Hybrid Work Experience

Worked well. Initially had tried MS Teams, Zoom and Dell SonicWall but had issues

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Awards

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Popular Features

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Visualization Tools (85)
8.4
84%
Firewall Management Console (85)
7.8
78%
Identification Technologies (84)
7.8
78%
Reporting and Logging (88)
6.9
69%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Threat prevention
Improve flexible rule configuration between site to site vpn

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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 customi...

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Employee in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing

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MX64

$595

On Premise

per appliance

MX67

$695

On Premise

per appliance

MX68

$995

On Premise

per appliance

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Product Demos

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Features

Firewall

A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

7.7

Avg 8.5

7.8
Identification Technologies
(84) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
8.4
Visualization Tools
(85) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
7.5
Content Inspection
(83) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
7.5
Policy-based Controls
(82) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
7.2
Active Directory and LDAP
(73) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
7.8
Firewall Management Console
(85) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
6.9
Reporting and Logging
(88) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
8.4
VPN
(84) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
8.2
High Availability
(84) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
7.8
Stateful Inspection
(79) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
6.9
Proxy Server
(45) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

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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.

Cisco Meraki MX Competitors

Cisco Meraki MX Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Windows
Mobile Application	No

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The most common users of Cisco Meraki MX are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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