We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"Since it has an integrated dashboard for all the products, customers can get complete network analytics regarding what the user is doing, monitoring, and observing."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"The technical support people from Meraki are brilliant."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"Load balancing options and ability to manage a couple of Internet connections."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Meraki MX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Meraki MX vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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