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Real-world Use Cases
In this section, we'll cover the most common deployment use cases for the Meraki MX:
• "Everything on"
• K-12 school with limited bandwidth
• K-12 school with high bandwidth
• College / higher education institution
• Retail branch
• Head-end concentrator for retail branches
For each case, we'll articulate which features should be turned on and measure the maximum
throughput achieved with each MX model.
"Everything On"
USE CASE:
Often, administrators would like to know what network throughput would look like if they turned
on all of the features of their MX security appliance (worst-case scenario). Please refer to the
"Features, benefits, and the performance impact" table in this document when fine-tuning the
firewall configuration to achieve maximum security without unnecessary performance degradation.
Firewall ConFiguraTion
Security features enabled:
• NAT mode
• Split-tunnel VPN
• WAN opt
• Content filtering (full list mode enabled on MX60,
partial list mode enabled on all other models)
• Traffic shaping
• Anti-virus/anti-phishing
• IPS
• Web caching (not available on MX60/MX60W)
ThroughpuT ConFiguraTion
Max throughput
Client count
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MX 6 0 / MX60W
M X80
10Mbps
40Mbps
25
TesT TraFFiC paTTern
Traffic flowing through the MX security appliance for testing
purposes was composed of the following protocols/applications.
MX 1 00
75Mbps
100
500
10% HTTP browsing
20% HTTPS browsing
20% HTTP download
20% FTP
20% CIFS non-VPN
5% HTTP over VPN
5% CIFS over VPN
MX 400
MX 600
160Mbps
160Mbps
2,000
10,000
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