Introduction to Cisco Meraki MX450 - Powerful Security and SD-WAN Platform

As I said the Cisco Meraki MX450 is a powerful Security and SD-WAN for the Branch & Campus.

Today I am going to talk about the Cisco Meraki MX security box which can also act and perform as SDWAN router with the inbuilt security features. 

With the help of Cisco Meraki MX450 you can have maximum throughput of 6 Gbps of stateful firewall and give you other beneficial features like Auto VPN, IPSEC/GRE with the SDWAN features.

Cisco Meraki MX device is totally a cloud based managed solution with Load balancing features which comprises multiple WAN links into a single high speed interface, with policies for QoS, traffic shaping, and failover.

The Cisco Meraki MX platform has an excellent platform for security features which has inbuilt IDS/IPS, content  filtering, web search  filtering, anti- malware, geo based IP based  firewalling, IPsec VPN connectivity and Cisco Advanced Malware Protection, while giving the efficiency required for today’s, bandwidth grasping networks.

Fig 1.1- Cisco Meraki MX450

Here we are talking about one of the Meraki platform “ Cisco Meraki MX450 “ . The Cisco Meraki MX650 has the following features which includes Hardware, Cloud based Management features and SDWAN with inbuilt security features.

Hardware

You can have 10G SFP+ WAN interfaces for high-speed connectivity in Meraki MX450

You can have 1G/10G fiber and copper interfaces for flexible LAN connectivity.

Stateful firewall which will give you up to 6 Gbps throughput

In case of power failures, you can have redundant power supplies and fans

The Recommended number of maximum clients will be 10,000 on Meraki MX450

Cloud-based centralized management

Cisco Meraki MX450  is totally managed centrally over the Cisco Meraki Cloud.

It Classifies applications, users and devices

No need to have configurations, you have Zero-touch, self-provisioning deployments.

Networking and security Features

As Meraki MX security appliance, you will get Stateful firewall

Inbuilt features to have Auto VPN self-configuring site-to-site VPN

Newly introduced powerful SD-WAN capabilities to make MX as SDWAN platform.

You can integrate the organisation’s Active Directory

Of course you will have Identity-based policies

The native feature of the Client VPN (IPsec)

Traffic shaping and application management

With the enhanced features like Layer 7 application visibility and traffic shaping

You can now prioritization Application on these SDWAN platforms.

You will get the Web caching.

Make sure you will have to Choose WAN uplink based on traffic type

Advanced security services

You can get the Content filtering on these devices

A Geo-based IP firewall

Easy and safe search with Google and YouTube for Education sector.

As an NGFW or UTM, you can have inbuilt Intrusion detection & prevention (IDS/IPS)

As an NGFW or UTM, you can have Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)

Added features of Cisco Threat Grid