Don't really need multi-tenancy solutions? Cisco Meraki MX is a good fit.
November 11, 2024

Don't really need multi-tenancy solutions? Cisco Meraki MX is a good fit.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • MX68
  • MX250
  • MX450
  • MX84
  • MX64

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX

I use Cisco Meraki MX for SDWAN for the branch offices and VPN headend hubs.

Pros

  • easy to manage
  • Auto VPN
  • Built in security features like AMP
  • Built in URL filtering features

Cons

  • Harder to check logs compared to firewalls like FortiGate
  • Not as power as other firewalls when configuring firewall rules
  • The LAN ports don't support STP properly
  • Make monitoring and management easier
  • The network admins love it
  • Sometimes limited visibility into the devices makes it hard to troubleshoot
Cisco Meraki MX is easy to deploy and manage, so the engineers love that, and also easier to find suitable engineers for the job. The customers love it because they can also have ready only access if needed to check the portals.
Overall it's an easy solution, and provide single pane of glass to monitor and manage the WAN, LAN and WiFi.
Overall it's good, sometimes the biggest Cisco Meraki MX doesn't provide enough SDWAN throughput.
Cisco Meraki MX is easy if you don't need multi-tenancy solutions and if the routing in the network is not so complex. But Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution is more powerful and has more features compared to Meraki.

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

For enterprises when SDWAN solution is needed but don't really need multi-tenancy solutions, Cisco Meraki MX is a good fit. Some customers may have remote branch sites with no IT staff, MX and Meraki cloud managed devices are an easy solution for this.

Cisco Meraki MX Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
6
Visualization Tools
10
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
8
Firewall Management Console
6
Reporting and Logging
6
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
8
Proxy Server
8

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