Cisco Meraki
Overview
The MX is a firewall, SD-WAN router and branch gateway in one cloud-managed appliance. We size it on inspected throughput and the number of VPN tunnels it will carry, then quote the security licence that unlocks the features you actually asked for.
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UK buying guide
Compare the exact hardware, licensing and compatibility—not just the product family or headline price.
Use internet bandwidth, active users, VPN use and enabled security features when comparing MX models. Meraki's sizing guidance notes that firmware, features and traffic mix affect performance; published figures are not a guarantee for every deployment.
Confirm the features needed from the chosen security licence, WAN hand-offs and any spare-appliance requirement. Evaluate hardware capability and software entitlement together before selecting an MX model.
Meraki documents co-termination and subscription licensing. Co-termination uses an organisation-wide expiry date; subscription licensing is network-bound. Confirm the model used by your Dashboard organisation before choosing a licence or renewal.
Official Cisco UK product guides and Cisco Meraki documentation. Check the current datasheet for your exact model before purchase.
MX sizing is driven by concurrent users, WAN throughput with security services on, and how many site-to-site tunnels terminate on the box. Undersizing shows up as slow browsing once content filtering and IPS are switched on.
Auto VPN builds the site-to-site mesh for you, and SD-WAN policies steer voice and business applications onto the best-performing link. It is the main reason multi-site organisations move to MX from traditional routers.
Enterprise licensing covers the firewall, VPN and SD-WAN. Advanced Security adds IDS/IPS, content filtering, AMP and geo-blocking. We tell you which controls you need instead of defaulting everyone to the higher tier.
FAQs
The FortiGate gives deeper security control and higher inspected throughput per pound. The MX gives simpler multi-site management and faster rollout. We quote both when a client is genuinely undecided.
In most cases yes — it handles routing, firewalling, VPN and SD-WAN in one appliance, which usually removes a separate router at each branch.
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Meraki MX security appliances supplied and configured — MX67, MX68, MX75, MX85, MX95 and MX250 cloud-managed firewalls with SD-WAN, licensing and UK support.
