Meraki MX in China

[StevenEarl]

Hello, we currently have MPLS circuits in China. We are looking at moving to Internet access only using Meraki MX appliances. Before we used MPLS we have very poor performance coming out of China. Does anyone have any experience or advice on using MX VPNs in China back to the US?

[GreenMan · Accepted solution]

If you haven't already, I'd suggest you read this document carefully:   https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Site-to-site_VPN/China_Auto_VPN

Also this one, at a higher level:   https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Support/Information_for_Users_in_China

Basically, in China you are recommended to deploy Meraki devices into an Organization within the China cloud.    Doing this precludes forming AutoVPN (SD-WAN) tunnels to an MX in a different Organization, of course.
If you choose not to follow the recommendation and physically deploy an MX in China, but as part of a non-China Org, while you may or may not get VPN to come up, to other locations, there would be no guarantees around whether it would stay working, nor around its performance .