Cisco Meraki MX65W
All in one Wireless, Branch Networking, and Security

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Lifetime Warranty with Next-day Advanced Replacement

Cisco Meraki MX appliances include a limited lifetime hardware warranty that provides next-day advance hardware replacement. Cisco Meraki’s simplified software and support licensing model also combines all software upgrades, centralized systems management, and phone support under a single, easy-to-understand model. For complete details, please visit meraki.cisco.com/support.

Product Options

*Note: Hard drive is used for web caching.

Specifications:

Management

• Managed via the web using the Cisco Meraki dashboard
• Single pane-of-glass into managing wired and wireless networks
• Zero-touch remote deployment (no staging needed)
• Automatic firmware upgrades and security patches
• Templates based multi-network management
• Org-level two-factor authentication and single sign-on
• Role based administration with change logging and alerts

Monitoring and Reporting

• Throughput, connectivity monitoring and email alerts
• Detailed historical per-port and per-client usage statistics
• Application usage statistics
• Org-level change logs for compliance and change management
• VPN tunnel and latency monitoring
• Network asset discovery and user identification
• Periodic emails with key utilization metrics
• Syslog integration

Remote Diagnostics

• Live remote packet capture
• Real-time diagnostic and troubleshooting tools
• Aggregated event logs with instant search

Network and Security Services

• Stateful firewall, 1:1 NAT, DMZ
• Identity-based policies
• Auto VPN: Automated site-to-site (IPsec) VPN, for hub-and-spoke or mesh topologies
• Client (IPsec L2TP) VPN
• Multiple WAN IP, PPPoE, NAT
• VLAN support and DHCP services
• Static routing
• User and device quarantine

WAN Performance Management

• Web caching
• WAN link aggregation
• Automatic Layer 3 failover (including VPN connections)
• 3G / 4G USB modem failover
• Application level (Layer 7) traffic analysis and shaping
• Ability to choose WAN uplink based on traffic type
• Note: Web caching is not available on the MX64 or MX64W models.

Advanced Security Services

• Content filtering (Webroot BrightCloud CIPA compliant URL database)
• Web search filtering (including Google / Bing SafeSearch)
• YouTube for Schools
• Intrusion-prevention sensor (Sourcefire SNORT® based)
• Anti-virus engine and anti-phishing filtering (Kaspersky SafeStream II engine)
• Geography based firewall rules (MaxMind Geo-IP database)
• Note: Advanced security services require Advanced Security license.

Regulatory

• FCC (US)
• CB (IEC)
• CISPR (Australia/New Zealand)

Warranty

• Full lifetime hardware warranty with next-day advanced replacement included.

License Editions:

An organization must have a valid Enterprise Edition license or Advanced Security Edition license for the MX series in order to work properly. Each organization is licensed for a maximum number of security appliances for a certain amount of time (typically from one year to five years). For example, the organization may be licensed for 25 appliances with the Enterprise Edition through January 30, 2012.

In addition, each organization is required to use either the Enterprise Edition or the Advanced Security Edition uniformly. For example, you can have all 25 appliances using Enterprise Edition or Advanced Security Edition, but you cannot have 20 appliances using one edition and 5 using the other edition. If you wish to use Enterprise Edition for some appliances and Advanced Security Edition for other appliances, you need to create two organizations, one for your appliances with the Enterprise Edition, and another for the appliances with the Advanced Security Edition.

You can manage a given organization's licenses on the Organization > License info page. The page displays the following information:

• Status: OK or problem
• Expiration date
• MX Advanced Security Enabled or Disabled
• Licensed device limit for each device type
• Current device count for each device type
• License history (list of licenses that have been applied to the network)

Enterprise vs. Advance Security license

Adding licenses

You can add a license by clicking Add another license. You will then have two actions, or "operations", to choose from:

• License more devices: increases the number of devices that can exist within this Cisco Meraki Dashboard organization.
• Renew my Dashboard license: extends the licensing period of this Cisco Meraki Dashboard organization. You must renew the license for all devices in the organization. You cannot renew licensing for only certain devices within the organization.

You cannot add an Enterprise MX license to an Advanced Security organization. Adding an Advanced Security license to an Enterprise organization will convert that organization to Advanced Security. All existing Enterprise MX licenses will have their duration halved to compensate for the difference in the licensing costs, and the organization's license cotermination date will be adjusted accordingly.

Expired licenses or exceeding the licensed device limit

If an organization's license is expired or the number of devices in the organization exceeds the licensed limit, the administrator has 30 days to return the organization to a valid licensed state. During this grace period, the system reminds the administrator to add additional licenses. After 30 days, administrators are not able to access the Dashboard (except to add additional licenses) and all Cisco Meraki equipment in the organization will cease to function.

Documentation:

Download the Cisco Meraki MX Family Datasheet Datasheet (PDF).