Cisco Meraki MX Security Appliances make it easy to deploy high quality network infrastructure to large numbers of distributed sites. Since the MX is 100% cloud managed, installation and remote management is simple. The MXhas a comprehensive suite of network services, eliminating the need for multiple appliances. Services include a next-generation firewall, content filtering, web search filtering, intrusion detection, web caching, WAN optimization, and link bonding with failover.

Next Generation Firewall Capabilities

• Application-aware traffic control: set bandwidth policies based on Layer 7 application type (e.g., YouTube, Skype, P2P).
• Content filtering:CIPA-compliant content filter, web (Google/Bing) search filtering, and YouTube for Schools.
• Intrusion detection: PCI-compliant IDS sensor using industry-leading Snort database from Sourcefire.
• Anti-virus and anti-phishing: flow-based protection engine powered by Kaspersky. 
• Identity-based filtering and application bandwidth management

Industry-leading Cloud Management

• Unified WAN, LAN, and wireless LAN management through a webbased dashboard. Scales easily from small deployments to large, multi-site deployments with tens of thousands of devices.
• Role-based administration, email alerts on configuration change, connectivity issues and power loss, auditable change logs.
• Summary reports with user, device, and application usage details archived in the cloud.
• Quarterly feature updates and enhancements delivered on demand from theCisco Meraki cloud.

Auto VPN

• Site-to-site VPN: automatic routing table generation, provisioning and key exchange via Cisco Meraki’s secure cloud.
• Interoperates with standards-based IPsec VPNs. 
• 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.
• Link bonding: combines multiple WAN links into a single highspeed interface, with policies for QoS, traffic shaping, and failover.
• Layer 3 failover: automatic detection of layer 2 and layer 3 outages and fast failover, including 3G/4G USB modems. 
• WAN optimization: data redundancyelimination,protocoloptimization, and compression provide bandwidth savings up to 99%.