Cisco Meraki MX vs Untangle NG Firewall

• The appliances are very, very easy to use. You could set one up for basic use with minimal documentation.
• Intuitive menus in the Meraki Dashboard make traversing your options and finding what you need very easy.
• Good support options and a healthy knowledge base with well-written guides.

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• Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
• Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
• Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
• Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.

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• Possible granular access to switchport settings when using VLAN's.
• Wireless models could and should have advanced wireless functionality which is inherent in the Meraki AP devices.
• More functionality and customization on the local access pages when device has not connected to the cloud yet.

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• The dashboard could be a little more customizable.
• I've run into situations where custom reports do not save correctly.
• It's not always clear where certain configurations are located, but it's still easy to find them quickly.

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• Previously I managed Cisco ASA equipment and enjoyed these firewalls. The need to train other admins and deployment at MSP clients were at the top of my list for switching to Meraki MX. The learning curve is much less steep for new security admins and the central dashboard allows coolabritive efforts when admins are in different locations. Built-in change management makes it easy to see who made specific changes as changes are logged on the dashboard.
• Other content filtering solutions that I have used had more bells and whistles, but given the cost, complexity, and management overhead, I am very pleased with Meraki’s solution.

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• Before my installation, I was getting called 3-4 times a week to clean malware infections. Now I am getting called 3-4 times a year.
• Employees are far more productive when they can't access their social media from their work computers.
• Spam has been blocked and quarantined from hitting our users' inboxes, drastically reducing the time it takes to sort through daily email.

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