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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
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

Simple, Scalable and Fully Featured

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 4, 2025
IncentivizedVetted Review
We currently use Cisco Meraki MX as our primary internet firewall, which is a migration from another Cisco product and chosen as we now have limited infrastructure on-prem and...
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Kevin Almond
Manager - Customer Service
Head of Customer Success
Forfusion Ltd
Cisco Meraki MX11 years of experience

Cisco Meraki MX Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 27, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
At the moment we are using Ku. The device can act as both in Cisco SD-WAN, SD-WAN appliance, as well as a firewall. We use the appliance for both things. We use it to create a...
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Ghalid Mohamed
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Network Engineer
SKA Observatory
Cisco Meraki MX2 years of experience
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How Cisco Meraki MX Differs From Its Competitors

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

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

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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Simplified Management

The simplicity of the tool greatly reduces the time spent on administering the firewall so that they can focus more on value-add projects rather than maintenance. Very happy with the simplicity. The MX is a no brainer for SMB looking for a firewall and then the management overhead is minimal
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Simplified Management

It's very easy for management, also for the customers, but the first thing is to find your way through all those menus, so that's the most first thing to do. But after that, you can find very thing most things very clearly.
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Simplified Management

Easy to configure, so company doesn't need many resources in order to implement it. Also we can see if any of the wan connection has latency problems, if bandwidth is becoming an issue and we have to increase bandwidth from the provider. Easy to find logs and easy to implement security rules.
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Hybrid Work Implementation Progress

Meraki MX appliances are deployed in remote offices, ensuring secure SD-WAN connectivity. Webex is now the central platform for video meetings, team collaboration, and file sharing. We’ve seen a high adoption rate among employees, and it has significantly improved communication between remote and …
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Organizational Challenges Faced

Even though tools like Webex are intuitive, there were challenges in ensuring that all employees, especially those with less technical expertise, felt comfortable using them. Bandwidth Limitations for Remote Employees: Many remote workers initially struggled with inconsistent internet bandwidth, …
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Impact on Organizational Challenges

Cisco Webex was a game-changer here, providing a unified platform for video conferencing, messaging, file sharing, and team collaboration. It ensured that both remote and in-office employees could communicate in real-time, join virtual meetings, and collaborate on documents without friction. The …
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Hybrid Work Experience

Hybrid meetings, where some employees are in the office and others are remote, presented initial challenges in terms of meeting dynamics. Remote workers sometimes felt excluded from the conversations, so we had to adjust meeting structures and ensure that everyone had a voice. Webex’s video …
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Other Products Considered

Cisco's products, particularly Webex and Meraki, provided us with an integrated, scalable, and secure hybrid work environment that is difficult to match with other solutions. We chose Cisco because of its seamless ecosystem, robust security features, and user-friendly management tools, which …
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Simplified Management

Reduced significantly the costs of deployment and management, in HQ order to large amount of branches, with intelligent site-to-site vmp and unified threat management capabilities.
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Hybrid Work Implementation Progress

We designed a solution to allow our users to connect from anywhere, share documenta in a. Secure manner and endorce company policy and monitoring to alll traffic. Our sites are all integrated with site-to-site and remote users use secure client, all under cisco umbrella for dns protection, content …
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Hybrid Work Experience

The Ciso products used (Cisco Meraki MX64 and Cisco Meraki MX64W, Cisco Secure connect, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Duo) allowed for a great work experience, no assle, no problems, stable and secure, that gave assurance of security.
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Simplified Management

We can use like a commodity. previously we used another solution that was complicated for us. We have selected between other Solutions because also there are a lot of partners able to support in case of issues.
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Simplified Management

We don't really have resources to do the service operations, so now this is at ease, at is its really simple, which also increases the performance, and of course integrated security.
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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

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Product Demos

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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 Firewalls is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Software-Defined WAN solution. As a UTM product, Meraki MX provides content filtering, app-specific traffic control, intrusion prevention, malware protection, and site-to-site VPN that is deployable on hardware or virtually. It also enables firewall management remotely for 24x7 monitoring and accessibility.

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Cisco Meraki MX Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Fortinet FortiGate, and SonicWall TZ are common alternatives for Cisco Meraki MX.

Reviewers rate VPN and High Availability 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
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
Pros
  • security
  • connectivity
  • customer support
Cons
  • faster support call backs
  • integrate umbrella into dashboard

Meraki Excels at Easy Scaling

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 05, 2025
CH
Christopher Hammond
Network Engineer
U-Haul International (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Meraki MX
5 years of experience
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Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Auto-VPN + SD-WAN
  • Cellular Failover
  • Robust Alerts via Webhooks
Cons
  • 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

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
Incentivized
March 13, 2025
JB
Joseph Brower
Owner and Lead Developer
Binary Cocoa (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Meraki MX
4 years of experience
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Pros
  • Decent web interface
  • Support
  • Content filtering
  • Threat detection (when using the higher license)
Cons
  • Intranet management (inability to NAT between LANs limits flexibility)
  • Multitenancy from one device
  • Limited in VPN options
  • Always a recurring charge
  • Difficult to troubleshoot when internet is down

Cisco Meraki MX Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 27, 2025
GM
Ghalid Mohamed
Senior Network Engineer
SKA Observatory (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Meraki MX
2 years of experience
Pros
  • It's very easy to deploy these devices because it's a cloud-based controlling controller that controls it. So able to, once the device has internet access, all you need to do basically is to look up the controller serial number and it'll basically find it. And once you add it to your network to automatically incorporate that device into your network and basically build the panels for the SD-WAN service.
Cons
  • Room for improvement. I think we also use the Meraki device as a fire haul. The one area where I think there's a room of improvement is when you do fire hauling with the device. Basically it doesn't do what you call walks, so it can't act as a web fire. In other words.

Simple, Scalable and Fully Featured

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 04, 2025
KA
Kevin Almond
Head of Customer Success
Forfusion Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Cisco Meraki MX
11 years of experience
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Pros
  • SDWAN / Auto-VPN
  • Rapid deployment to new location
  • Zero touch provisioning
  • Simple configuration
  • Full visibility of traffic ingress and egress through the MX
  • Traffic analytics
  • Utilise Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
Cons
  • AnyConnect implementation needs to offer more bespoke configuration
  • Content Filtering reporting is not very good
  • Migration to new Dashboard has left a very mixed experience across pages
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