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Rating: 9.1 out of 10
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Cisco Meraki MX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Cisco Meraki MX products for work group switches in our enterprise, we can simply add more switches when required by use of zero touch provision through the simple meraki dashboard, you don’t need to call in engineers each time you increase the footprint of the network, we are agile in our operation and the product suits us well.

Pros

  • Zero touch provision
  • Visibility
  • Software upgrades

Cons

  • Licensing tiers
  • Opex costs
  • Core scale

Likelihood to Recommend

The Cisco Meraki MX product is really well suited for zero touch provision through the dashboard, we can send a device out to a remote location where it is simply plugged in, we don’t need to send an engineer and the dashboard takes care of the proviso for us, a site can be up online in minutes of connection.

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Cisco Meraki MX
4 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Cisco Meraki MX as our front end SD WAN solution with zero trust FW for the enterprise with VPN termination between branch locations.

Pros

  • VPN termination
  • Layer 4 Firewalling
  • Remote Access

Cons

  • Simplification of licensing
  • License cost reduction
  • Failover

Likelihood to Recommend

SD WAN deployment is fantastic for central and remote sites, you can setup a really simple central policy for central SD WAN including routing and incorporate site to site VPNs really simply from the Meraki dashboard, you dont need to be a ccie to do this so it’s easy to make changes.

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Cisco Meraki MX
2 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX - Overview from experience

Rating: 7 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki MX to support and enable our clients on their journey to go with a simplified solution that are typically more complex compared with other vendors that competes on the same space.

The central management and easy of use are one of the main value proposition to manage large distributed networks.

The SD-WAN, Next Gen Firewall and Assurance features provide a complete package for a robust and secure SD-WAN And a Next Gen Firewall

The single pane of glass from the Dashboard makes easier to remotely manage and administer all the Cisco Meraki MX stack components like the MX appliances.

There are also improvement areas like support of multiple VRF, NAT between LAN interfaces and more complex routing scenarios.

Specifically to business problems is enable our clients to simplify legacy and complex network setups with a technology like the Cisco Meraki MX that provides very easy and straightforward technology for Edge Routers (SD-WAN) and Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and also replacing expensive MPLS solutions with cheaper Internet circuits with 10X time the Bandwidth for less financial costs.

Pros

  • SD-WAN Application Steering (Dynamic Application Routing)
  • Network transport agnostic and encrypted (Network Overlay)
  • Next Generation Firewall (IPS/IDS, Content Filtering, AMP)
  • Router Mode and Concentrator Mode
  • VPN Remote Access (L2TP/IPSec & Cisco AnyConnect)

Cons

  • NAT between LAN interfaces for LAN-to-LAN Firewalling
  • Continue improving BGP
  • Multiple VRF Support

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Meraki is well suited for Distributed Networks (Large or Small). Typical use cases are industries like Car Rental, Healthcare, Retail, Banking, Airline. </div><div>

</div><div>For clients and simple network setup it's a good fit for our clients that allows to easily centrally manage the network.</div><div>

</div><div>The platform combines SD-WAN and Next Generation Firewalls in one appliance which it makes a compelling solution.</div><div>

</div><div>Meraki SD-WAN allows to enable SD-WAN tunnels overlay without the need to have deep network skills and with just few clicks you can connect multiple sites just by defining network policies that are translated by the Meraki Dashboard (a.k.a. Network controller) into low level configurations that are pushed back to the devices.</div><div>

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Cisco Meraki MX Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work for a Telco company and have a managed portfolio for our customers.

Pros

  • dashboard
  • ease of use
  • continues improvments

Cons

  • MSP offerings (multi Tennant)
  • co management features
  • reporting schedule capabilities

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco Meraki MX to a colleague because, in my experience, Cisco Meraki MX is great for our retail customers . enhanced security is not that strong compared to other vendors (Palo Alto)

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Cisco Meraki MX
5 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX makes your life easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MSP

no problems

Pros

  • SDWAN for retail
  • Auto VPN

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in Cisco Meraki MX with Poe (power over ethernet) on WAN (wide area network) interface

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco Meraki MX to a colleague because, in my experience, Cisco Meraki MX is easy to deploy and preconfigure

Cisco Meraki MX general impressions

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki MX at our customers as an MSP for providing them SD-WAN functionality and basic firewalling while keeping it easy and manageable.

Pros

  • SD-WAN
  • Easy onboarding
  • Easy interface configuration

Cons

  • It lacks basic L2 functions like STP, port-channeling
  • It does not do granular L7 policies and VPN configurations it's usually an all or nothing approach.
  • It does not provide on-box logging making external syslog or siem integrations mandatory which is prohibitive in smaller customers.
  • Dashboard policy construction can use some more love like sections, service objects.
  • The throughput figures are somewhat low for the tier of product to comparable competition brands.

Likelihood to Recommend

Large SD-WAN deployments with many small branches like retail, and popup offices.

It is less suited in larger campuses or as an aggregation firewall due to granular policy lacking.

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Cisco Meraki MX
9 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX - MX450

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Cisco Meraki MX-Systems to connect 56 branch locations to one central system without the hussle to manually configure anything. The firewall-rules are deployed globally across all sides

Pros

  • Manage large numbers of clients without any bottleneck
  • Integration with Cisco Umbrella
  • Configuration with Terraform

Cons

  • Easier replacement function

Likelihood to Recommend

Keep multiple sides setup identical, not very well suited for a single side - there are more cost-effective solutions for that

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MX
3 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we user Cisco Meraki MX for Ease of use. Simpler network config and basic network understanding needed,

Pros

  • Simple
  • Easy
  • Cloud Backup

Cons

  • Cloud config push can be a bit slot

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco Meraki MX to a colleague because, in my experience, Cisco Meraki MX Works very well for my smaller sites and my corporate HQ (headquarters).

MX68CW Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Meraki MX for Securing and managing my overall internet connectivity, separating cliennts from IOT devices

Pros

  • Easyness of deployment
  • Dashboard
  • Platform approach with integrating other Meraki products

Cons

  • Performance of dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend Cisco Meraki MX to a colleague because of, in my experience, Cisco Meraki MX's Fast and accurate overview of my overall network status

Cisco Meraki MX review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Meraki MX Mostly for site to site VPN (virtual private network), to secure each branch

Pros

  • Site to site VPN
  • Dashboard access
  • Quick firewall rules

Cons

  • Nbar implementation
  • Firewall rules
  • Logging

Likelihood to Recommend

Quick implementation on a site, low maintenance and efficacity

Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki MX
3 years of experience

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