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Fortinet FortiGate vs. SonicWall NSA Series

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SonicWall NSA Series

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe SonicWall NSA Series is the company's mid-range next generation firewall (NGFW).N/A
    Pricing
    FortiGateSonicWall NSA Series
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FortiGateSonicWall NSA Series
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    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
    FortiGateSonicWall NSA Series
    Considered Both Products
    Fortinet
    Chose FortiGate
    FortiGate has inbuilt SDWAN features along with Next Gen Firewall. CheckPoint Firewall dont have inbult SDWAN
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Fortinet FortiGate is above other products in the market.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Sonic wall as a firewall also gives us its main function as the Fortinet FortiGate. Sonic Wall is best suited when you want to use it to connect your cloud environment to your private on-premise network. But on reputation most vendors prefer or recommend Fortinet Fortigate if …
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    FortiGates are more professional and offer a robust command line.
    Incentivized
    SonicWall
    Chose SonicWall NSA Series
    We compared the FortiGate to Sonicwall and continued with Sonicwall as we were a mid-size school where the Sonicwall was performing adequately, and the learning curve was steep to switch platforms. The Sonicwall offered everything the FortiGate did, and was not as costly, both …
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    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
    FortiGateSonicWall NSA Series
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Fortinet FortiGate and SonicWall NSA Series
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    SonicWall NSA Series
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.638 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.538 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.439 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.040 Ratings9.95 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.039 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console8.640 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.440 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    VPN8.640 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    High Availability9.535 Ratings9.95 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.538 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Proxy Server10.028 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    FortiGateSonicWall NSA Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (67 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (26 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)