We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, Cisco, WatchGuard and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"It is a robust SD-WAN solution."
"The technical support people from Meraki are brilliant."
"The security level of our organization has changed by using Meraki MX Firewalls. We didn't have the UTM before, but now we have sandboxing, tray scanning, attack preventions and monitorization. Our security level has improved."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"Right now, you can postpone the update but eventually, if you don't do the update, it will install the updates automatically for you and that's something that is not working for me."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"Meraki tech support staff have a lot more visibility into your network than you do, which is frustrating at times. I understand the approach is to keep the dashboard easier to understand. This will frustrate more advanced users at times."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"We have been having a problem with the VPN. When the energy goes down and is back again, the VPN link doesn't get established. We have to manually turn off the modems and other pieces of equipment and manually establish the VPN. It has been around one month since we have been having this problem, and we don't have enough support from Meraki to solve the problem."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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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). 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 "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Meraki MX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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