Cisco Meraki MX appliances for small businesses
Updated March 10, 2025

Cisco Meraki MX appliances for small businesses

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • MX64
  • MX68

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX

We have deployed Cisco Meraki MX appliances to fully mesh our retail locations and provide connectivity between locations.

Pros

  • Meshed connectivity
  • Easy management of appliance in one place
  • Easy management of dhcp and vlans

Cons

  • Monitoring of secondary WAN connections
  • Ability to have firewall rules specific to only one WAN connection for failover purposes
  • Reduced the time need to manage.
  • Reduced our year license spend.
  • Reduced maintenance time for updates and patching.
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 also have a simple device replacement plan for failure of upgrades of devices that majorly reduces time needed to migrate or replace devices.
It’s really easy to add a new location and devices to the network. Meshing it into the network is quick and easy and locations and be online within minutes.

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

It’s been great for a smaller business with a small IT team. We have been able to easily deploy appliances without having to have a huge budget and can quickly make changes. The management of all devices being in the same interface has been a major improvement from our previous hardware. The second thing is that Meraki integrates with so many applications and devices we have endless options for improvement.

Cisco Meraki MX Feature Ratings

Firewall
6.7
Identification Technologies
8
Visualization Tools
6
Policy-based Controls
7
Reporting and Logging
5
VPN
8
High Availability
8
Stateful Inspection
5

Using Cisco Meraki MX

6 - The Meraki MX appliances allow me to have a meshed network and connect all of my locations to a central and DR sites.
1 - I am the only IT person for the company and the simplicity of the MX appliance has made it so that I can easily manage and monitor them. I have experience with Cisco CLI but the MX platform is easier to manage for most things.
  • Connectivity between locations
  • VPN access for remote works
  • ability to support dual internet connections and seamless failover
  • Ability to host DNS at DR site using meshed networks
  • Monitor the uptime and status of secondary internet connections by pinging the MX hostname of each connection
  • We plan to deploy a second VPN connection that is solely for vendor usage.
  • It will allow us to quickly and easily scale and add more locations.
It has been very good and reliable, easy to use, and compatible with most platforms. We also like that the appliances update themselves and we can be pretty hands off in that sense.

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