Meraki Firewalls
Secure Connectivity With Cisco Meraki Firewalls
The Cisco Meraki MX is a standout in the realm of multifunctional security and SD-WAN enterprise appliances. It offers robust security and advanced SD-WAN capabilities, making it an ideal solution for businesses of all sizes. Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, the Meraki MX ensures secure connectivity while maintaining top-tier performance.
Key features of Cisco Meraki MX:
- Security: Provides enterprise-grade security with advanced features like intrusion prevention, content filtering, and threat protection to keep your network safe.
- SD-WAN capabilities: Offers seamless SD-WAN functionality, optimizing performance and reducing costs by intelligently routing traffic over the best available path.
- Application quality of experience (QoE): Delivers superior application performance through real-time analytics powered by machine learning, ensuring optimal end-user experiences.
- Machine learning integration: Utilizes machine learning to enhance network analytics, providing deeper insights into network traffic and performance trends.
The Meraki MX firewall is the perfect solution for businesses seeking secure, scalable, and efficient network management.
Cloud-based Management
The Cisco Meraki MX simplifies network management with its 100% cloud-managed architecture, eliminating the need for in-person setup or maintenance. This cloud-based convenience is perfect for businesses with distributed branches, campuses, or data centers, enabling seamless installation and remote management.
Key benefits of cloud-based management:
- Zero-touch deployment: Easily deploy new devices without requiring on-site installation, saving time and resources.
- Centralized control: Manage a network of MX devices remotely, ensuring consistent security and performance across all locations.
- Intuitive dashboard: The web-based interface provides unified management for firewall, switching, wireless LAN, and mobile device environments.
- Scalability: Template-based settings allow for easy scaling from small deployments to large infrastructures.
- Enhanced administrative control: Role-based administration and customizable email alerts help ensure efficient oversight and management.
With cloud-based management, the Meraki MX empowers you to efficiently oversee your network, streamline operations, and maintain high security without the hassle of in-person maintenance.
Securing Network Communication
The Cisco Meraki MX simplifies network security by integrating a comprehensive suite of security features into one unified platform. Businesses no longer need separate tools for each type of threat.
Key security features include:
- Application-based firewalling: Protects your network by filtering traffic based on application types.
- Content and web search filtering: Ensures safe browsing by blocking malicious content and unwanted websites.
- SNORT®-based intrusion detection and prevention: Monitors network traffic for suspicious activity and proactively defends against intrusions.
- Cisco advanced malware protection (AMP): Provides real-time protection against malware, preventing infections before they can affect your systems.
By consolidating these security functions into one device, the Meraki MX simplifies network management while strengthening defenses against cyber threats.
Cloud Extensibility With vMX
With Cisco Meraki's vMX, businesses can start small and easily scale their network without the need to change hardware. The SD-WAN capabilities of the MX extend seamlessly into public and private cloud environments, providing businesses with the flexibility to grow as needed.
Key benefits of vMX:
- Seamless cloud integration: vMX appliances integrate with leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud.
- Scalability without hardware changes: Easily expand your network by deploying virtual appliances in the cloud, eliminating the need for new hardware or complex upgrades.
- Flexibility: Access resources and optimize performance across your entire network, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
The vMX solution ensures your network can grow with your business, offering unmatched flexibility and scalability as you expand without disrupting your existing infrastructure.
Enhanced Quality Of Experience Analytics
The Cisco Meraki MX offers advanced QoE analytics powered by machine learning, helping IT teams spot potential issues before users even notice them.
Key benefits of QoE analytics:
- Proactive monitoring: The system autonomously detects performance anomalies by analyzing historical data, allowing your IT team to intervene before problems impact users.
- Smart application insights: Machine learning algorithms automatically set performance thresholds for applications, ensuring optimal web application performance across LAN, WAN, and server environments.
- Early problem detection: Identifying issues early means quicker fixes, ensuring a smooth user experience and minimizing disruptions.
With these powerful analytics, the MX ensures that performance is continually optimized and potential problems are addressed before they can affect operations.
Branch Gateway Services
The Cisco Meraki MX is a versatile gateway solution that enhances network performance and reliability for businesses. With built-in features like DHCP, NAT, QoS, VLAN management, and web caching, it optimizes resource utilization and ensures smooth operations.
Key features include:
- DHCP & NAT: Automatically assigns IP addresses and translates them, simplifying network management and reducing setup time.
- QoS: Prioritizes critical applications, ensuring high performance even when bandwidth is limited.
- VLAN management: Organizes and separates network traffic for better efficiency and security.
- Web caching: Improves access speeds by storing frequently accessed content locally, reducing latency.
Additionally, load balancing combines multiple WAN links to increase throughput, ensuring fast internet connections even if one connection fails. Smart connection monitoring further ensures rapid failover by detecting disruptions and rerouting traffic to available links, minimizing downtime. These features work together to provide a robust, resilient network for your business.
Intelligent Site-to-Site VPN
The Cisco Meraki MX, powered by Cisco SD-WAN technology, offers intelligent site-to-site VPN capabilities that simplify secure connectivity between multiple locations.
Key features include:
- Automatic VPN route generation: Automatically creates the most efficient VPN routes, ensuring secure and reliable connections between sites without manual intervention.
- Dynamic VPN path selection: Selects the best path for VPN traffic based on real-time network conditions, optimizing performance and reliability.
- Application-layer performance profiles: Support application-specific VPN performance profiles, allowing businesses to prioritize critical applications and ensure optimal performance.
- Auto VPN functionality: Simplifies VPN setup and management by automating much of the process, reducing the time and complexity of configuration.
- IPsec VPN interoperability: Ensures seamless integration with existing network infrastructure by supporting IPsec VPN devices.
These features make the Meraki MX ideal for businesses seeking secure, scalable, and easy-to-manage site-to-site VPN connectivity.
Agile Security And Continuous Updates
The Cisco Meraki MX provides agile security both on-premises and in the cloud, offering robust protection that adapts to evolving threats.
Key security features:
- Layer 7 firewalling: Inspects and filters traffic at the application level, identifying and blocking unwanted apps and malicious content to prevent potential security breaches.
- Sandboxing: Analyzes suspicious files in a safe, isolated environment to determine if they contain malware, preventing harmful files from impacting the network.
- Intrusion prevention: Utilizes the SNORT® signature database to detect and block known intrusion attempts, protecting your network from external and internal threats.
- Granular content filtering: Provides control over internet access by blocking specific websites and content types, helping to maintain a secure and focused business environment.
- SSL decryption/inspection: Inspects encrypted traffic from secure websites to identify and block hidden threats, ensuring comprehensive security for all types of data.
- Cloud access security broker (CASB): Monitors and controls access to cloud applications, ensuring that only trusted and approved apps are used within your network.
The Meraki MX automatically updates its security features in the background, ensuring your system is always protected against the latest threats without requiring manual intervention.
Meraki MX Models
The Cisco Meraki MX series offers a wide range of models tailored to meet the diverse needs of businesses, from small offices to large enterprises. Each model provides unique features and capabilities, ensuring you can find the right solution to enhance your network's security and performance. Below is a list of Meraki MX models:
- MX67-HW
- MX67C-HW
- MX67W-HW
- MX68-HW
- MX68CW-HW
- MX68W-HW
- MX75-HW
- MX85-HW
- MX95-HW
- MX105-HW
- MX250-HW
- MX450-HW
- Z3-HW
- Z3C-HW
- Z4-HW
- Z4C-HW
- Meraki VMX Virtual Appliances
Cisco Meraki MX Licensing and Features
Cisco Meraki MX licensing is model-specific, meaning each Meraki MX appliance requires a unique license. These licenses cannot be transferred between different models. For example, a Meraki MX75 cannot be covered by a Meraki MX84 license—it must be paired with a corresponding Meraki MX75 license.
The Meraki MX offers several license editions, including Enterprise, Advanced Security, and Secure SD-WAN Plus. It's important to note that the same license edition must be applied across your entire organization. This means all Meraki MX appliances within an organization must use the same license edition.
For instance, you can have all 25 appliances using the Enterprise Edition or the Advanced Security Edition, but mixing editions within the same organization is not possible. If different editions are required for different appliances, you must create separate organizations—one for the Enterprise Edition and another for the Advanced Security Edition.
Choose The Right License For Your Network Needs
Both the Meraki Enterprise and Meraki Advanced Security licenses offer a range of standard features to meet diverse networking needs, including:
- VLAN-to-VLAN routing
- 3G/4G failover
- Traffic shaping and prioritization
- VPN support
- Splash pages and configuration templates
- Group policies and client connectivity alerts
- SD-WAN technology
These features ensure seamless network operations and efficient resource utilization. The Meraki Advanced Security license takes security a step further, adding:
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Content and web search filtering
- AMP
These enhanced security features protect against evolving threats and ensure data integrity. Whether you need to focus on security or optimize performance, both licenses offer scalable solutions. Meraki's flexible licensing options allow you to build a secure, efficient network infrastructure tailored to your business objectives.
| Cisco Meraki MX Enterprise Licenses | Cisco Meraki MX Advanced Security Licenses |
| LIC-MX67-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX67-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX67W-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX67W-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX67C-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX67C-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX68-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX68-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX68W-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX68W-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX68CW-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX68CW-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX75-ENT-xY | LIC-MX75-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX85-ENT-xY | LIC-MX85-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX95-ENT-xY | LIC-MX95-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX105-ENT-xY | LIC-MX105-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX250-ENT-xY | LIC-MX250-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-MX450-ENT-xYR | LIC-MX450-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-VMX-S-ENT-xY | LIC-VMX-S-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-VMX-M-ENT-xY | LIC-VMX-M-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-Z3-ENT-xYR | LIC-Z3-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-Z3C-ENT-xYR | LIC-Z3C-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-Z4-ENT-xYR | LIC-Z4-SEC-xYR |
| LIC-Z4C-ENT-xYR | LIC-Z4C-SEC-xYR |
Why Hummingbird Network Is Your Trusted Security Partner
Hummingbird Networks has established itself as a trusted provider of firewall solutions by consistently delivering top-tier security for businesses of all sizes. With years of experience in the IT sector, we are experts in deploying and managing network security solutions that protect and optimize network performance.
Our approach to firewall security goes beyond just setting up defenses; we focus on proactive measures to prevent cyber threats before they can affect your network. Our team of certified engineers utilizes advanced technologies to monitor, detect, and mitigate risks, ensuring continuous protection.
What sets Hummingbird Networks apart:
- Proven expertise: With years of industry experience, we understand the complexities of network security and offer effective and reliable solutions.
- Proactive security: We focus on preventing cyber threats before they impact your network, using advanced tools for monitoring and detection.
- Tailored solutions: Every firewall deployment is customized to fit your organization's unique needs, ensuring optimal protection and performance.
With Hummingbird Networks, you gain more than just a firewall provider—you gain a proactive security partner dedicated to safeguarding your organization with the latest technologies, expertise, and a tailored approach.
Streamline Your IT Operations With Meraki
Meraki's comprehensive suite of networking solutions provides businesses with the tools to simplify their IT operations. From powerful firewalls to seamless cloud management and advanced security features, Meraki's products enable organizations to optimize their network performance while ensuring robust protection.
With Meraki, businesses can easily manage their networks, gain real-time insights, and proactively address potential issues before they become problems. Whether you want to enhance security, improve network reliability, or reduce IT management overhead, Meraki offers scalable solutions to meet your needs.
By choosing Meraki, you empower your organization with cutting-edge technology that simplifies complex IT processes, streamlines operations, and drives long-term success. Let Meraki help you focus on growing your business while we take care of your network.
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