Meraki MX90 Cloud Managed Security ApplianceWAN Optimization Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Meraki’s MX90 Cloud Managed Security Appliance integrates firewall, VPN and WAN optimization in one cloud-managed solution that allows growing enterprises to manage up to hundreds of branch routers in a multi-site network from one intuitive Web-based interface. While testing focused on WAN optimization performance,

The evaluation of Meraki’s MX90 focused on file transfer performance of FTP, HTTP, and CIFS protocols. Tolly engineers found the Meraki MX90 Cloud Managed Security Appliance significantly improves transfer time by up to 209X in “warm” (cached) runs across protocols under test compared to the baseline (non-cached).