MX240 TRUE Capacity

[Stans]

I have a Internet access which I want to replace with a Meraki MX250 . The 2 GB link peaks @ ~950 Meg. My count of users is ~ 7000.I will not be using the unit as the firewall.

What is the  real choke point for the machine ?

Through put? or client connections?

I've looked everywhere for the answer, but there seems to be no real world Benchmarks -

I realize the  'recommended' user count is 2000 but that seems extremely conservative.

Before i Get the stock line - use a MX450 - I'd like to hear some other thoughts.

[CptnCrnch]

Pretty easy: you won't be able to squeeze out more than mentioned in Meraki's data sheets. User count may be "conservative", but not that conservative.

I'd definitely go wfor the MX450.

[Stans]

Is the user count concurrent connections or flat out max connections due to table size ?

[Inderdeep]

@Stans : Check this below

[Inderdeep]

@Stans : MX250 with the number of 2000 users and Capacity of maximum throughput of 1 Gbps of VPN is on the test environment or may be on EFT ( Early Field Trails). I would recommend you to go with MX450 as per your requirement of 7000 user counts and 2 Gbps of VPN throughput.

[PhilipDAth · Accepted solution]

Hi @Stans .

The issue won't be the throughput but the amount of RAM in the MX250.  The MX line of products track a lot of things for reporting back to the dashboard.  I suspect if you had 7,000 active users the unit might run out of RAM and become unstable.