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)."In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"The technical support people from Meraki are brilliant."
"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."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"To me, the analytics feature is one of the most valuable in Meraki MX. I also find that it has good usability as it's cloud-based. Another valuable feature of Meraki MX is that it's simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"Meraki MX can come across as an expensive solution."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"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."
"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."
"Management can be improved in Meraki MX."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"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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