Item: Cisco Meraki MX
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it mainly for SD-WAN to connect our remote sites to hubs and each other.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The Auto VPN feature. It's really easy to add new sites as spokes and enable connectivity between everything, so mainly setup is the best part and the SD-WAN features.

Cons

Layer seven firewall rules. Just making them more granular. We've been in meetings with Cisco SES where I've said feature requests many times and that's one of the big ones where it's just a little cumbersome to implement layer seven rules right now.
Just making them more granular. We've been in meetings with Cisco SES where I've said feature requests many times and that's one of the big ones where it's just a little cumbersome to implement layer seven rules right now.

Return on Investment

It has definitely had a positive impact with the speed of setup, allowing our other departments with it to get their devices online and tested faster, making store set up a lot quicker.

Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Catalyst Center

Definitely we have a smaller team. It's made administration easier and set up easier for our smaller team to manage multiple sites, so it's just made it easier basically. That's the main point.

Scalability

Like I said, we use it to create new sites very easily. We just add another index and a network to our dashboard and we can have it up and connected in an hour.

The closest thing would be just a traditional Cisco router with a DMVPN network set up, but I haven't really interacted with anything on Meraki's level. The closest thing would just be a traditional Cisco router with a VPN network.

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 Catalyst Center, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Likelihood to Recommend

It's very well suited for retail locations where you have a small footprint and it's a collapsed core design and it's connecting to a larger hub. We don't necessarily use them in our data centers just because they don't have the full capability we have. We use FTDs in our data centers, so we use a different Cisco product for that. So I would say they're really good at setting up sites quickly, getting them connected, protecting the traffic, and then they're a little weak in a data center right now.

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