Cisco Meraki MX68 Network Security/Firewall Appliance - 12 Port - 10/100/1000Base-T - Gigabit Ethernet | MX68-HW

Cisco Meraki MX Security & SD-WAN 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 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.

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

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 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

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 option of integrated LTE Advanced or 3G/4G modem