Cisco Meraki MX vs. Silver Peak NX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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.
$595
per appliance
Silver Peak NX
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Silver Peak NX appliances are WAN optimization solutions, sized for the smallest of branch offices to the world's largest data centers and disaster recovery sites, supporting up to 5 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of WAN capacity and 512,000 simultaneous flows. Silver Peak is now part of Aruba, since the September 2020 acquisition of Silver Peak by HPE.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Editions & Modules
MX64
$595
per appliance
MX67
$695
per appliance
MX68
$995
per appliance
MX84
$1,995
per appliance
MX100
$4,995
per appliance
MX250
$9,995
per appliance
MX450
$19,995
per appliance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Top Pros
Top Cons

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Features
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Meraki MX
7.6
64 Ratings
11% below category average
Silver Peak NX
-
Ratings
Identification Technologies7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Tools8.161 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Inspection7.361 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls7.260 Ratings00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP7.453 Ratings00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console7.662 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging7.364 Ratings00 Ratings
VPN7.461 Ratings00 Ratings
High Availability8.160 Ratings00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection8.156 Ratings00 Ratings
Proxy Server7.734 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Small Businesses
SonicWall TZ
SonicWall TZ
Score 8.3 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(93 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(14 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(59 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Meraki MXSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
So most use cases, this product fits. There aren't that many situations where it doesn't, and I've put it inside of banks. I've used it inside of schools, I've used it at normal businesses, big, bigger, and or small, but very small use cases where it has not, and we could not lead with it was at some banks. They did require NetOver VPN when communicating with higher-fed entities. If in the future Meraki could include NetOver VPN, then this would just be an auto-include for most of our deployments.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It works fantastic when you want to reduce network cost and get the same result than with an MPLS. It's less appropriate for big companies with a lot of small sites.
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Pros
Cisco
  • The management is the best. I'm an old-fashioned networking guy, so I'm used to going to the site itself and connecting. For example, a console cable and start and start configuring. Now since the management is so easy on Meraki I can configure everything from the headquarters from where I sit in Israel and then just go to the site and connect and basically, it's plug and play. After I configure everything from my office in Israel, I can just go to the site for a few hours, and connect everything. Just the magic happens.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
Cisco
  • Firewall Policies
  • Hardware Performance Statistics
  • IPS Performance + Efficacy
  • Limited port counts when leveraging network templates on higher end units.
  • No options for HTTPS decrypt or encrypt visibility
  • No EIGRP Routing
  • No ability to clear ARP table / release DHCP leases through GUI
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
As we have it in place now, we will continue to keep it at our remote sites. Future expansion is something we are reviewing, and may well start with some of the larger switches as they seem to offer good performance and management at a reasonable price. Wireless is also something we're investing in and their devices are great for that.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Usability
Cisco
The Cisco Meraki MX series is very easy to use. Setting up user VPN access, site to site VPN to tie multiple locations together and managing all your devices. You can even download the latest firmware and install without ever leaving the dashboard. Meraki is the very definition of easy to use
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Support Rating
Cisco
I haven't ever had a bad experience with Meraki support. On the few occasions where I wasn't understanding the UI or needed some clarification about what a setting actually would do, I contacted them and they were very quickly able to provide help. Returns are simple and fast, too. We had to return a defective device one time and they shipped the replacement before we had even un-racked the one that was faulty. Unlike many other vendors, they didn't ask use to a do long list of scripted diagnostics, they just took my word for it that the device was broken and sent out a replacement immediately
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
Good product and simple to use.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
I have used Sonicwall and Meraki, and they are very similar and functional, but they go about it in different ways. Meraki is a little more user-friendly with less of a learning curve, but it comes at a little steeper price. I do like the online dashboard of Meraki better, though.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Because of their WAN acceleration feature
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Scalability
Cisco
Every network we create will allow us to automatically be attached in the mesh network. The ability for the automatic VPN connections is very convenient and allow us to focus on other configuration points without having to worry about if the VPN will work or not. The GUI showing the VPN is kind of confusing, but as long as it has direct connection to the other Meraki MX units, it will be up.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Network hardware needs to function 100% of the time with no one really ever thinking about it - it just needs to work. Cisco delivers here.
  • The Cisco Meraki MX products are fast and reliable helping productivity.
  • Cisco's support is solid and helpful.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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