Meraki MX Licensing Guidelines

Meraki MX Licensing Overview

Overview

The Meraki MX is a multi-functional security & SD-WAN enterprise appliance with a wide set of capabilities to address multiple use cases for organizations of all sizes, in all industries.

Given the range of use cases that can be solved, there are three license options for the MX appliance that provides customers the flexibility to select the license most appropriate for their intended use.

Enterprise	Advanced Security	Secure SD-WAN Plus
“All I require is Auto VPN and a firewall”	“I connect directly to the Internet so need a UTM too”	“My business is reliant on SaaS/IaaS/DC served apps”
Essential SD-WAN Secure connectivity & basic security	All enterprise features Fully featured unified threat management	All advanced security features Advanced analytics with machine learning powered by Meraki Insight Smart SaaS QoE

Features by License Option

Feature	Enterprise	Advanced Security	Secure SD-WAN Plus
Centralized management	✔	✔	✔
Zero-touch firmware updates	✔	✔	✔
True zero-touch provisioning	✔	✔	✔
24×7 enterprise support	✔	✔	✔
Open APIs	✔	✔	✔
Automatic WAN failover	✔	✔	✔
Sub-second site-to-site VPN failover	✔	✔	✔
Sub-second dynamic path selection	✔	✔	✔
Stateful firewall	✔	✔	✔
VLAN to VLAN routing	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Routing	✔	✔	✔
Uplink Load Balancing/failover	✔	✔	✔
3G / 4G cellular failover	✔	✔	✔
Traffic shaping/prioritization	✔	✔	✔
Site-to-site VPN	✔	✔	✔
Client VPN	✔	✔	✔
MPLS to VPN Failover	✔	✔	✔
Splash pages	✔	✔	✔
Configuration templates	✔	✔	✔
Group Policies	✔	✔	✔
Client connectivity alerts	✔	✔	✔
Essential SD-WAN	✔	✔	✔
Source-Based Routing	✔	✔	✔
Local Breakout (IP and Port based)	✔	✔	✔
Geography based firewall rules		✔	✔
Intrusion detection & prevention		✔	✔
Content filtering		✔	✔
YouTube Content Restriction		✔	✔
Web Search Filtering		✔	✔
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)		✔	✔
Umbrella DNS Integration**		✔	✔
Threat Grid Integration**		✔	✔
Web App Health Analytics			✔
WAN Health Analytics			✔
VoIP Health Analytics			✔
Smart breakout			✔
SD-Internet			✔