Cisco Meraki MX general impressions
Modules Used
- MX64
- MX64W
- MX67
- MX67W
- MX68
- MX68W
- MX84
- MX100
- MX250
- MX75
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki MX
We use Cisco Meraki MX at our customers as an MSP for providing them SD-WAN functionality and basic firewalling while keeping it easy and manageable.
Pros
- SD-WAN
- Easy onboarding
- Easy interface configuration
Cons
- It lacks basic L2 functions like STP, port-channeling
- It does not do granular L7 policies and VPN configurations it's usually an all or nothing approach.
- It does not provide on-box logging making external syslog or siem integrations mandatory which is prohibitive in smaller customers.
- Dashboard policy construction can use some more love like sections, service objects.
- The throughput figures are somewhat low for the tier of product to comparable competition brands.
- devices can get to the internet
- bandwidth is well used due to local breakout
- rolling out new locations is a breeze
Us engineers implement the devices at customers and our service desk which usually contains less experienced engineers can easily get around the dashboard to help troubleshoot. If the local logging (session logging in particular) would be improved they would even be better at troubleshooting.
Total view of network clients via dashboard. Online packet captures.
Secure firewall provides a more complete featureset but is challenging to adopt and even that product has some weird limitations (like DHCP scope options being global...).
FortiGate also brings a complete set and e have engineers who are skilled at it. The only thing where Cisco has the advantage is that the dashboard brings together multiple products without compromising on the speed and load on the firewall.
FortiGate also brings a complete set and e have engineers who are skilled at it. The only thing where Cisco has the advantage is that the dashboard brings together multiple products without compromising on the speed and load on the firewall.
Do you think Cisco Meraki MX delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Cisco Meraki MX's feature set?
No
Did Cisco Meraki MX live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Cisco Meraki MX go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Meraki MX again?
Yes
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