Cisco Meraki MX

Cisco Meraki MX

Cisco Meraki MX

238 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Meraki MX	Score 8.8 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

Pricing

Cisco Meraki MX

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

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Meraki MX
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cisco Meraki MX
Considered Both Products	Cisco Meraki MX MW Melanie Welshman Unit Manager for Unified Networks Chose Cisco Meraki MX None. No. Historically we weren't even monitoring our own networks. We were actually using a third party. So this is our corporation's first time actually taking care of our own network. Incentivized Helpful? RC Robert Chadd Director Chose Cisco Meraki MX We're really using the Meraki more and more, everything from the wireless. We started doing some work with the cameras and security. Meraki has been a great product for our company so far. We use it for a lot of our outer campuses as the VPN Tunneling primary with SD wan. So … Incentivized Helpful? Renato Magalhães Presales engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX Because Cisco Meraki MX scales better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Cisco Meraki MX Easy to use, cloud manage, scaleable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Cisco Meraki MX It is easier to implement and affordable. If you like Cisco products and you believe in their ecosystem and future, you will not be wrong selecting Cisco Meraki MX or Viptela from their portfolio. Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Meraki MX Flexibility, scalability Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose Cisco Meraki MX Simplicity Incentivized Helpful? Jairo Osorio Network and Security Consultant Chose Cisco Meraki MX To Fortinet very similar, I always sell the easy patching and secure development. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Hoy Director of Technology Chose Cisco Meraki MX Capabilities, performance, and ease of management. Also, because of the efficiencies of being able to manage everything from a single portal. Incentivized Helpful? PM Peter Muchau System Engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX We are currently testing Cisco Secure Access, the result is still pending. Incentivized Helpful? RM Roy Morken Product manager Chose Cisco Meraki MX Easy to deploy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Meraki MX Lack of security around the cloud architectures. Cisco security with TALOS is world leading knowing the platforms are secured and protected. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki full stack is the best way to monitoring your network. Troubleshooting is more easy, more graphical and easy to use. i like the topology view, the wireless healt, airmarshall … the advanced thread protection and the security center… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco Meraki MX Overall, for a new network admin or a non-IT person, the Cisco Meraki MX is much easier to configure for a single site than the Cisco ASA Firewalls. ASA can be quicker for those with a background in Cisco command line OS. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Meraki MX I have used OpenMesh which is no longer around. But stacked up against Cisco Meraki MX, there was no competition. Cisco Meraki MX overall had better features, deployment, Ease of use, and Hardware performance. One of the Incentivized Helpful? Joyal John Peter Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX Ease of setup, portability, subscription cost, and flexibility. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Roberts IT Network Coordinator Chose Cisco Meraki MX We were able to transition very easily from Cisco to Cisco Meraki MX's and connect the LANs into a single easy to manage WAN with remote access VPN and auto VPN between branches to interconnect all networks with minimal fuss but allowing high-speed networking and traffic … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Roberts Director, Management Information Systems Chose Cisco Meraki MX I mentioned I came from a Dell SonicWall 2600, which I felt was a good product. However, the Cisco Meraki MX Firewall is in a whole other class. I wanted to be able to manage my networking in the cloud, which the Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is still the easiest to use, they constantly update their software and features. Incentivized Helpful? CD Carlos De freitas Network Architect Chose Cisco Meraki MX Meraki is for small business Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX Checkpoint does not have the portal setup for centralised management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Meraki MX I've tried Aruba. Aruba access point and switches, but Meraki is far, far, far better. Incentivized Helpful? CC Chris Castek Senior Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Meraki MX So, other products that I've used in the firewall world that are kind of equal to this is traditional Cisco ASA, I've used SonicWall firewalls and Sophos firewalls as well. As far as how they stack up each really has its place a lot of the time when it comes to customer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco Meraki MX I think this one, especially for our use case, it's much more economical than the other ones were, it met the needs, our main needs for, our main requirements. There are use cases where the other ones are going to be better, they have more features. They're also more costlier, … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Content filtering Pro Cloud management Pro Site to site
Top Cons	Minus Vpn connections Minus Cisco meraki Minus Licensing costs

Features

Cisco Meraki MX

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Meraki MX 7.7 88 Ratings 10% below category average
Identification Technologies	7.884 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.485 Ratings
Content Inspection	7.583 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	7.582 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	7.273 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	7.885 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	6.988 Ratings
VPN	8.484 Ratings
High Availability	8.284 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	7.879 Ratings
Proxy Server	7.045 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Cisco Meraki MX
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (121 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (5 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.7 (88 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Meraki MX
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco The MX platform is definitely suited. It seems to be best at the branch locations under a thousand users or so. And then at the data centers, it's been a little bit of a complicated process involving the full stack of the Meraki switches firewall security appliances. It gets a little more difficult within the data centers because the routing protocols aren't built out fully. They're working on, they're adding new features to that. But right now we're still struggling with a little bit of the features that are available within our data centers. Incentivized NO Neil Oughton Networking Supervisor Read full review
Pros	Cisco 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cisco 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. Incentivized MW Melanie Welshman Unit Manager for Unified Networks Read full review
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. Incentivized James Martin IT Manager Read full review
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 Incentivized Wesley Bond Director of Information Technology Read full review
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 Incentivized Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator Read full review
Implementation Rating	Cisco Good product and simple to use. Incentivized James Martin IT Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco We're really using the Meraki more and more, everything from the wireless. We started doing some work with the cameras and security. Meraki has been a great product for our company so far. We use it for a lot of our outer campuses as the VPN Tunneling primary with SD wan. So it's working out very well for us. Incentivized RC Robert Chadd Director Read full review
Scalability	Cisco The Cisco Meraki MX is basically a good product, but not perfect. If you compare the Cisco Meraki MX with a Fortigate or Cisco Firepower, you quickly realize that this system can do less than the reference product. The Cisco Meraki MX can be used in small environments, but in large environments you have to check carefully whether it really makes sense to use it. Incentivized PM Peter Muchau System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco Equipment is very affordable It does not work without license, which is not cheap Lifetime warranty (understand warranty as long as you pay license and the device is not EOS) Price for the equipment can be reduced by 60% when you buy a lot Price of the licenses can be reduced by 50% if you go with Enterprise agreement licensing Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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