Cisco Meraki MX Security Appliances are Unified Threat Management (UTM) products. UTM products offer multiple security features in a simple-to-deploy, consolidated form factor. Given the number of security features that can be deployed in any given MX, device performance will vary depending on the use-case. Choosing the right MX depends on the use-case and the deployment characteristics. 

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This technical guide is designed to help answer the following questions: • How do I decide which MX model I need? • Which features should I turn on? • How do MX models compare against the competition?

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Choosing the right hardware Cisco Meraki MX products come in 8 product families. The chart below outlines MX hardware properties available under each family:

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Industry standard benchmarks are designed to help you compare MX security appliances to firewalls from other vendors. These tests assume perfect network conditions with ideal traffic patterns. When measuring maximum throughput for a certain feature, all other features are disabled. Actual results in production networks will vary.

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