Cisco Meraki MX Overview

This training includes six modules or lessons designed to build your knowledge around the Meraki MX product from the ground up and touch on the majority of different architectures you might face in real-life network deployments. The course started from claiming devices to the dashboard, all the way through building a complex SD-WAN solution with all the required security features. The course split into 6 modules as follows:

• Introduction

  It's important to understand what is Meraki all about and how simplicity is the key to modern networks. Also, it's important to know what is the gateway landscape look like and what has changed in recent years. Then going over Meraki Cloud architecture to understand more about how the control and data planes travel over Meraki devices.

• MX Quick Start

  This section mainly covers the process of MX talking to the cloud and how it works in more details and covering setting up MX for the first time. At the end of this section, you will learn more about the difference between MX in NAT mode and Pass-through mode.

  
  

• MX as a Unified Threat Management (UTM) device

  When we talk about the gateway appliance, we have to talk about security, in this lesson, we will cover all the MX device's security features. It starts from firewalling rules, content filtering and intrusion detection and prevention, then expanding more details of how NAT works on the MX with different port forwarding techniques. Then, we finished up with Client VPN feature and how to create and apply group policies.

  
  

• MX as Gateway

  How does the MX make its routing decisions? And what routing protocols the box can support? All those questions are answered in this section. We will also cover the best practices of connecting MPLS and/or Internet to the MX and how to apply Quality of Services (QoS) to your traffic.

  
  

• SD-WAN and Dynamic Routing

  As gateway appliance, MX has built-in SD-WAN functionality, and in this section, we are expanding on how this features works and how to configure it as well as more best practices of configuring dynamic routing in complicated networks.

  
  

• MX other modes and latest features

  The last lesson of the training is covering the integration with AWS, and how to use the MX in VPN concentrator mode and integrate it with your Meraki wireless environment, in addition to that, we also will cover the High Availability (HA) setup and best practices.