Cisco MX250
Powerful Security and SD-WAN for the Branch & Campus
Cisco Meraki MX Security Appliances are ideal for organizations considering a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, for distributed sites, campuses or datacenter VPN concentration. They offer an extensive suite of security features while providing the performance required for modern, bandwidth-intensive networks. 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 hardware and virtual appliances, configurable in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
* Advanced security services require license, sold separately.
Hardware
- 10G SFP+ WAN interfaces for high-speed connectivity
- 1G/10G fiber and copper interfaces for flexible LAN connectivity
- Stateful firewall throughput: 4 Gbps
- Redundant power supplies and fans
- Recommended maximum clients: 2,000
- 10G SFP+ WAN interfaces for high-speed connectivity
- 1G/10G fiber and copper interfaces for flexible LAN connectivity
- Stateful firewall throughput: 4 Gbps
- Redundant power supplies and fans
- Recommended maximum clients: 2,000
- 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.
- 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.
- Built-in DHCP, NAT, QoS, and VLAN management services.
- Web caching: accelerates frequently accessed content.
- Load balancing: combines multiple WAN links into a single high-speed 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.