Cisco Meraki MX Review
Updated March 20, 2025
Cisco Meraki MX Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- MX64
- MX67
- MX68
- MX68W
- MX84
- MX100
- MX250
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX
Part of the SMB stack. Perfect best in class device for protecting and connecting your local environment and infra structure. easy to keep monitor and if subscription is up to date, then everything is covered. setup is reasonably straight forward and if you don't need the full bells and whistle of the enterprise cisco gear, this gives you more than what you need
Pros
- site to site with other MX
- client VPN, got past the funky chinese great firewall
- great support
Cons
- the odd non-meraki site to site is not great but supported
- mix and matching layer 7 rules
- can drop ship and get smart hands or client to connect via phone call to setup if needed
- support is out standing, usually over night all rma
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
- pfSense, SonicWall TZ, Extreme Ethernet Switches, ExtremeWireless, Datto and Azure Application Gateway
when you have to use non-Meraki gear to connect things it plays well to get things working, there are some limitations but on the whole it makes it much easier to sort out.
light and day, there is a bit more of a cost but well worth the time and cost savings to deploy
Do you think Cisco Meraki MX delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Meraki MX's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Meraki MX live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MX go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Meraki MX again?
Yes
Cisco Meraki MX Feature Ratings
Cisco Hybrid Work
- Cisco Meraki MX
- Cisco Umbrella
- Working from anywhere (e.g., coffee shop, airport)
- Working from an office or other company space
- Working from home
impletment umbrella for dns auth and vpn for non standard connections
users to comply with requirments of connectivity
great easy to deploy solutions and can limit sites
great protection using the combo of umbrella and mx as it's has intergation for both
simple to deploy and have users learn, just need enforment
- Microsoft Teams
teams is our standard work space tool
Using Cisco Meraki MX
300 - the day to day protection of the firewall features of layer 7 and the ATP.
also for those outside of the office, we rely on the client vpn that is tied to AD, so that random connections are secure. this is even more important with the COVID and the work from home model. we are also looking to go HA with a hot spare since it's such a key point of access now
also for those outside of the office, we rely on the client vpn that is tied to AD, so that random connections are secure. this is even more important with the COVID and the work from home model. we are also looking to go HA with a hot spare since it's such a key point of access now
3 - all admin or senior admins. the administration of this is fairly straightforward and with the cloud portal we can tweak any changes from where ever. The email alerts are a great reminder when things goes wrong and can quickly review the health from anywhere. we don't need to be in the office anymore
- security from intrusions
- client vpn
- stream line setup
- for the technologically challenged we send out z3 and do a site to site from their home office
- enable branch office site to site to so that it removes the need for client vpn
Evaluating Cisco Meraki MX and Competitors
Yes - sonicwall and microtek replaced with MX68
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
cloud configurable and don't need trucks rolled to site to deploy, can use smart hands or local user to take photo of infra and walk them through
nothing, we were certified with the CNNA and got lab gear to setup and test stuff. i miss that program
Cisco Meraki MX Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - planning on what is needed,
review the hardware specs to ensure it covers current and possible future neded
review the hardware specs to ensure it covers current and possible future neded
Change management was minimal - one for one replacment
- non, in place replacement
Cisco Meraki MX Training
Configuring Cisco Meraki MX
we use our harded SOP and revise when there are new features on a semi annual bases
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - the product does not support adding custom code
love the API to get things working
Cisco Meraki MX Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
no, standard support is enough with the licnese paid
when i needed to know an alternative to getting android onto the vpn and they got me access to early release beta to test
Using Cisco Meraki MX
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- site to site vpn
- easy geo locaiton
- high avaliability is easy
- vpn protocols locked in, but these features are easy to work around
Yes - very basic and limited, generally just use the web interface as the mobile is more for seeing if the network is up and can't really do much
Cisco Meraki MX Reliability
Integrating Cisco Meraki MX
- auvik
reporting and monitoring into auvik, easy with api
all good so far
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
if you can, add the intergration as soon as possible
Relationship with Cisco
Upgrading Cisco Meraki MX
Yes - seamless, a few minutes of down time but easy to upgrade as config just take over
- easy to upgrade
- no reconfig required
- add to dashboard add ip's and go
- same near seamless transition just buy, install and use
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