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Cisco Meraki MX

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.

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Cisco Meraki MX review

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 16, 2025
IncentivizedVetted Review
We implement Cisco Meraki MX devices both in our own IT practice and in our client's businesses. Cisco Meraki MX devices are the standard firewall that we recommend for making...
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Shayne Caffrey
Director - Sales
Sales and Marketing Director
LeeShanok Network Solutions
Cisco Meraki MX4 years of experience

Great stuff

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 15, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
FW used for remote locations.
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Eastico Culbreath
Engineer - Engineering
NSOC Manager
Cox Enterprises
Cisco Meraki MX10 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 11, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco Meraki MX for our firewalls, switches, access points and cameras. The dashboard is awesome because it brings all into one location. Cisco Meraki MX support is gre...
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Ron Giles
Administrator - Information Technology
IT Support
Standard Supply
Cisco Meraki MX5 years of experience

Meraki Excels at Easy Scaling

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 5, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We leverage Meraki MX as our primary security appliance for our U-Haul operated retail locations, repair shops and manufacturing plants — over 2500 locations in total, and as ...
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Christopher Hammond
Manager - Information Technology
Network Engineer
U-Haul International
Cisco Meraki MX5 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX does the job well, but has a few caveats that could come back to bite you if you aren't careful

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 13, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cisco Meraki MX is used by some of my clients for managing their internet connection between a few facilities. They have an ethernet handoff, and Cisco Meraki MX sits between ...
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Joseph Brower
Engineer - Information Technology
Owner and Lead Developer
Binary Cocoa
Cisco Meraki MX4 years of experience
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How Cisco Meraki MX Differs From Its Competitors

Simplified Management

The ease of deployment and management is the entire reason that we've standardized on the Meraki MX platform. The Meraki are very, very easy for our internal teams to manage and monitor for all of our client networks. They're very, very easy to deploy out in all of the various different networks …
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Simplified Management

I came from a background of mixed firewalls and they were clumsy, bad interfaces and hard to work with. The Cisco Meraki MX hardware is easy to manage in the dashboard with well engineered and written user interface. The Cisco Meraki MX guys must actually work in their equipment as it is laid out …
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Simplified Management

Meraki's ease of use has improved every aspect of our network support process. We now have self-serve options for our field technicians. What would have taken months and Cisco training to help new hires understand is now done in weeks. The amount of time to stand up a new MX is also a fraction of …
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Simplified Management

Cisco Meraki MX has allowed me and my team to maintain a few networks with relatively little effort. We didn't require a lot of training to use the core feature set, and it has served our clients well. It does what any good firewall should do, be set up, stay out of the way, and maintain security.
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Hybrid Work Implementation Progress

We mostly needed a system that would let our workforce work on small documents from anywhere. Since the information is stored on our server at the office, having something that would let them securely connect and access server resources was critical. We also wanted something that would integrate …
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Organizational Challenges Faced

There weren't organizational challenges per se. Most of the difficulty came from ensuring those that needed to work remotely had the equipment to do so. We're an MSP, and the client already had a good idea of how they wanted things to work. We just needed a good way to make it happen.
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Impact on Organizational Challenges

The Meraki unit acts as a good endpoint for roaming clients. Setup is pretty easy and is easy enough for people to use that we don't have to expend a lot of effort training people. It has been secure, reasonable in setup, and performance has been as we expect. The only challenges we've run into …
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Hybrid Work Experience

Being outside of the office does create some challenges. Having the VPN available to employees has done quite a bit for letting them check up on things, update documents, collaborate, etc. The VPN is one part of the hybrid work system in place, but it place a pivotal role and having it easy to set …
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Other Products Considered

In this case, we were already using the Meraki for other services (IDS/IPS type work). We also implement pfSense and OpenVPN. They all have their pros and cons, but Meraki fits in well with the solutions that we've found. It is easy to use, has broad platform support, and maintains security well.
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Simplified Management

I think what's happened is because as an organization, in other words, we probably an incorporated organization of multiple countries. So two years ago, basically the contract was signed between the member countries and we had two years to set up something quickly. And what Meraki was very …
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Simplified Management

Both ourselves and our customers continue to benefit from the rapid deployment timescales of Meraki MX appliances, with often zero touch provision being leveraged at remote site / office locations. Administration is also no longer restricted to just the security guy within the IT Team, it can and …
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Simplified Management

We have a new service which is almost exclusive managed by our support teams. This means our companies more expensive resources can focus on our other products and still delivery and basic SD-WAN service.
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Simplified Management

There was a great benefit from using Cisco Meraki MXs. Having dispersed sites and no local team, Cisco Meraki MX has allowed to maintain the infrastructure with low effort.
Reduced costs with training due to the ease of the solution.
In one package delivers a good firewall with many capabilities …
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Simplified Management

The learning curve for new hires are pretty steep already, but making this cloud interface very intuitive and straight forward is a great asset for people to jump right in plus the logging will help revert things if someone tries to be too creative
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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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Simplified Management

One thing that when we have to get on site, we unpack the equipment, all we do is connect one cable and everything comes up and it connects back to the cloud and back to the data center. It's just great. I don't have to do it anyway. They can hook it up. And you're online.
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Simplified Management

So there are times where I may not have an engineer. I can actually go in and troubleshoot the, I'm not as much hands-on and technical as I used to be, but because I have been in the need, I can step in. So it's been tremendous in that way
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Simplified Management

We have benefited a lot from using these products. With several site and a small team, Cisco Meraki MX has allowed my team to maintain our with relatively little effort. Didn't require a lot of training to use the core feature set, and it has served our purposes well. It does what any good …
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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

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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Awards

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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

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

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meraki.cisco.com
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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

7.9
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Cisco Meraki MX?

Cisco Meraki MX is a cloud-managed security and SD-WAN appliance designed to provide comprehensive networking and security capabilities in a simple, scalable form. Ideal for branch offices, campuses, and distributed enterprises, Meraki MX simplifies network management with centralized cloud control and robust security features.

Cisco Meraki MX Features

  • Supported: Cloud-managed SD-WAN for simplified network control
  • Supported: Integrated next-gen firewall and intrusion prevention
  • Supported: Auto VPN and site-to-site connectivity
  • Supported: Threat intelligence powered by Cisco Talos
  • Supported: Seamless scalability for growing networks

Cisco Meraki MX Integrations

Cisco Meraki MX Competitors

Cisco Meraki MX Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Meraki OS
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Cisco Meraki MX Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG Firewall, and SonicWall TZ are common alternatives for Cisco Meraki MX.

Reviewers rate VPN highest, with a score of 8.8.

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

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Cisco Meraki MX review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 16, 2025
SC
Shayne Caffrey
Sales and Marketing Director
LeeShanok Network Solutions (Computer Networking, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Cisco Meraki MX
4 years of experience
Return on Investment
  • It's been a very positive impact in terms of our operational efficiency. Because we can standardize all of our clients on the Meraki platform, and because the Meraki platform is so easy to use, deploy, and manage, it's really improved our taxability to respond to tickets, reduce downtime all in a way that's very simplistic and consistent across all of our different client networks.

Cisco Meraki MX Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 11, 2025
RG
Ron Giles
IT Support
Standard Supply (Business Supplies & Equipment, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Meraki MX
5 years of experience
Return on Investment
  • support time and tickets have decreased
  • downtime has decreased significantly
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