We're incredibly excited to share some news about a powerful new addition to our portfolio: the Cisco 8455-G2-MX Secure Router! We know the network edge is evolving rapidly with distributed AI and cloud connectivity, and your infrastructure needs to keep pace. That's exactly why we built this advanced WAN appliance to empower your campus, large enterprise, or service provider networks.

What makes the 8455-G2-MX such an important step forward for your operations?

• 🚀Unleash High Performance: This router comes with dual 25Gbps SFP28 WAN ports. This router delivers integrated security performance beyond 10Gbps (up to 8Gbps Threat and 20Gbps Firewall), ensuring your network stays fast and secure even under heavy loads. It's powered by an all-new secure networking processor designed to efficiently handle demanding AI/ML workloads.
• 🔐Future-Proof Your Security: We're building for tomorrow! The C8455-G2-MX is AI/ML and Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) ready, preparing your network for emerging threats and technologies. Plus, running the intuitive Meraki OS means you benefit from streamlined cloud management, AI-powered automation, and advanced security features like secure boot.
• 💡Reliable & Smart Design: Its compact 12-inch depth offers deployment flexibility, and with field-replaceable, redundant power supplies, you get built-in high availability. We've also incorporated Cisco's circular design principles, supporting your sustainability goals.

The 8455-G2-MX is perfectly suited for large enterprises and campuses needing to aggregate multiple WAN connections with robust security and scalability, making it a strong foundation for your SASE deployments.

Ready to dive deeper? Check out the 8455-G2-MX datasheet for all the details.

Cisco Secure Connect is a turnkey, unified Service Edge Secure Access (SASE) solution designed to deliver an exceptional user experience with minimal effort by securely connecting users, things, and applications seamlessly from anywhere. This solution converges cloud-delivered security (SSE) and networking (SD-WAN) on one powerful platform with a single dashboard, making management easy and providing greater visibility and control. There are many use cases that Cisco Secure Connect offers, but one of the key use cases is Remote Access. If you would like to learn more, please refer to the document here.

Traditionally, the organization has several hubs deployed as a headend where Remote users establish the connectivity through VPN client. Meraki MX provides this capability with two options: Client-VPN and Cisco Secure Client (aka AnyConnect) VPN. With Cisco Secure Connect, you can achieve the same with cloud hubs available in various regions. It provides benefits such as scale, flexibility and cloud-delivered security capabilities that does not limit the performance or impact the end user experience.

While transitioning to the cloud-based Remote Access solution, one of the key questions is, how can I make sure that all my current policies can be applied to the cloud-based solution? One way is to create them from scratch line by line. Or as Meraki says, we make things simple. Cisco Secure Connect is built on the fundamental principle of simplicity everywhere, interconnect everything. Hence, the other option is to instead use a newly developed tool - Policy Import.

Yes!! We are very excited to announce that the Policy Import feature is now available in all Cisco Secure Connect supported regions. It is specifically designed to simplify the admin experience, where IT can simply follow a few steps via a guided wizard to import all their Remote Access policies from MX SD-WAN to the Cisco Secure Connect Cloud Firewall. To learn more, please visit our documentation here.

Cisco+ Secure Connect—SASE as-a service for any device, any application, any location