Cisco Meraki MX Security & SD-WAN Appliances are ideal for organizations considering a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution for distributed sites, campuses or datacenter VPN concentration. Since the MX is 100% cloud managed, installation and remote management are simple. The MX has a comprehensive suite of network services, eliminating the need for multiple appliances.
These services include SD-WAN capabilities, application-based firewalling, content filtering, web search filtering, SNORT based intrusion detection and prevention, Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), web caching, 4G cellular failover and more. Auto VPN and SD-WAN features are available on our hardware and virtual appliances, configurable in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
- Application-aware traffic control: bandwidth policies for Layer 7 application types (e.g., block YouTube, prioritize Skype, throttle BitTorrent)
- Content filtering: CIPA-compliant content filter, safe-search enforcement (Google/Bing), and YouTube for Schools
- Intrusion prevention: PCI-compliant IPS sensor using industry-leading SNORT signature database from Cisco
- Advanced Malware Protection: file reputation-based protection engine powered by Cisco AMP
- Unified firewall, switching, wireless LAN, and mobile device management through an intuitive web-based dashboard
- Template based settings scale easily from small deployments to tens of thousands of devices
- Role-based administration, configurable email alerts for a variety of important events, and easily auditable change logs
- Auto VPN: automatic VPN route generation using IKE/IPsec setup. Runs on physical MX appliances and as a virtual instance within the Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure cloud services
- SD-WAN with active / active VPN, policy-based-routing, dynamic VPN path selection and support for application-layer performance profiles to ensure prioritization of the applications types that matter
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