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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Smoothwall SWG

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda CloudGen Firewalls provides a wide range of security and connectivity features, including web filtering, NAC and SSL VPN and other features for remote access, as well as protection as edge devices and IoT security.N/A

    Smoothwall SWG

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASmoothwall SWG is the web security gateway and content filtering from UK company Smoothwall.N/A
    Pricing
    Barracuda CloudGen FirewallSmoothwall SWG
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Barracuda CloudGen FirewallSmoothwall SWG
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBarracuda offers prospective buyers a build and quote tool on their website.—
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    We already use Smoothwall for our main web filtering and felt it would be more robust to have a failover service in case of hardware failure. Pricewise the 2 were comparable and both would have been an upgrade on the no longer supported Microsoft Threat Management gateway. We …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Smoothwall SWG
    Feature
    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    Smoothwall SWG
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging9.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability9.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Barracuda CloudGen FirewallSmoothwall SWG
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)