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Cisco Meraki MS vs. Fortinet FortiGate

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki MS

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ACisco offers the Meraki brand of Ethernet switches.N/A

    FortiGate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AFortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Meraki MSFortiGate
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Meraki MSFortiGate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Meraki MSFortiGate
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    A lot of the times we choose Meraki just because it is so easy to manage, and we feel a great synergy when we switch to everything meraki-based. For example when we are able to have both access points and switches from Meraki it becomes a lot easier to manage compared to if we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    Easy deployment and single pane of glass portal.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    Meraki MS provides the sweet spot between manageability and functionality, though not at a significantly lower cost. Desktop support engineers can manage it day-to-day and sometimes that is the most important factor, especially in our case, as a layer 2 switching solution that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    we use both classic Cisco switches and Cisco Meraki MS switches but for differents infrastructures and different customers. Cisco Meraki switches are clearly better for large and fast deployments on non-complex environments and are very easy to maintain and update. There is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    We decided to go with Cisco Meraki Switches, due to the cloud management ability, we wanted a solution that was quick and easy to install that was easily managed from thousands of miles away, that was resilient to errors, config mistakes etc.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    I have seen other "cloud-managed" solutions and none come close to the Meraki MS. The ease of setup, and management, especially with applying updates, license and support information at your fingertips is priceless.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Meraki MS
    Cisco provides top notch solutions for each networking/security need. Cisco provides strong and resilient equipment, backed up by a strong support, and every product when compared item by item always ends up lacking, even if they have some extra feature not available in Cisco …
    Incentivized
    Fortinet
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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
    Cisco Meraki MSFortiGate
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Meraki MS and Fortinet FortiGate
    Feature
    Cisco Meraki MS
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    Ratings
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings8.538 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings9.439 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings7.440 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings9.535 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings9.538 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki MSFortiGate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (99 ratings)
    9.0
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.6
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (80 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)