• General Information
• • Manufacturer
  • Cisco Systems, Inc
  • Manufacturer Website Address
  • http://www.cisco.com/c/en_au
  • Brand Name
  • Meraki
  • Product Series
  • MX
  • Product Type
  • Network Security/Firewall Appliance

Cisco Meraki MX Security Appliances are ideal for organizations considering a Unified Threat Managment (UTM) solution, for distributed sites, campuses or datacenter VPN concentration. Since the MX is 100% cloud managed, installation and remote management is 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.

FEATURE-RICH UNIFIED THREAT MANAGEMENT (UTM) CAPABILITIES

• 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-seach enforcement (Google/Bing) , and YouTube for Schools.
• Intrusion prevention: PCI-compliant IPS sensor using industry-leading SNORT® signature database from Cisco Sourcefire.
• Advanced Malware Protection: file reputation-based protection engine powered by Cisco AMP.
• Identity-based security policies and application management.

INDUSTRY-LEADING CLOUD MANAGEMENT

• 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.
• Summary reports with user, device, and application usage details archived in the cloud.

INTELLIGENT SITE-TO-SITE VPN WITH MERAKI SD-WAN

• Auto VPN: automatic VPN route generation using IKE/IPsec setup. Runs on physical MX appliances and as a virtual instance within the Amazon AWS 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.
• Interoperates with all IPsec VPN devices and services.
• Automated MPLS to VPN failover within seconds of a connection failure
• Client VPN: L2TP IPsec support for native Windows, Mac OS X, iPad and Android clients with no per-user licensing fees.

BRANCH GATEWAY SERVICES

• Built-in DHCP, NAT, QoS, and VLAN management services.
• Web caching: accelerates frequently accessed content.
• Load balancing: combines multiple WAN links into a single highspeed interface, with policies for QoS, traffic shaping, and failover.
• Smart connection monitoring: automatic detection of layer 2 and layer 3 outages and fast failover, including 3G/4G USB modems.