Item: Cisco Meraki MX
Rating: 9
Author: João Paulo

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Meraki MX is used for managing the internet connections within Europe. In each location Cisco Meraki MX with the UTM capabilities is acting as a firewall, Application and content policy, router, VPN endpoint, and content filter, allowing to maintain every site with no effort. Didn't require a lot of training to be able to use the full capabilities.

Pros and Cons

Pros

VLAN and DHCP management
High Availability
Powerful Cloud management
UTM Capabilities

Cons

More customization when debugging with packet capture
granular with alertings
Cost

Return on Investment

Easy maintenance of security
Improved the Return on Investment
Improved deployment time

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 through Unified threat Management for maintaining security.

Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Secure Connect and Cisco Duo

We have benefited from the use of Cisco Meraki MX and integration with Cisco Duo and Cisco Secure Connect as it is very simple to use and deploy.
Our team can manage the entire WAN from one pane of glass, either the the HQ, branches or users in coffeeshops or airports with vpn.
We use these in our organization as a firewall with UTM capabilities, VPN connectivity, and traffic shaping, Great outcome.

Scalability

We implemented the Cisco Meraki MX due to the highly scalable features, with the industry leading cloud management and almost plug-n-play deployment, allowing to grow without many involved costs and a Very low IT headcount, either to deploy and also to maintain a cohesive policy throughout the entire company, no matter the location.

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

The inclusion of unified threat management UTM capabilities were considered a crucial part of the deployment of this solution, which the easy cloud management permitted to build trust in a new solution that no member of the team knew, added that the Cisco is very well known and helped to get approval.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Secure Connect, Cisco Duo

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Meraki MX is simple to use and deploy, even without extensive training.Are being used in for firewalling, VPN termination, traffic shaping and content control, and provides robust security features, improving business process agility, created efficiencies in internal/operational processes with business outcomes improvement. Reporting allows for compliance & risk management major improvement.

Cisco Meraki MX Feature Ratings

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Good tool for small to large companies

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