We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"The most interesting feature is the amount of information you can get from overseeing the system from a centralized place."
"If there are multiple network connectivities in an organization, Meraki creates an AutoVPN. It creates a channel automatically."
"I appreciate the cloud-based management feature the most. It's a crucial aspect for me because it allows me to manage the configuration remotely without having to visit the on-premise location. The ability to do this from my home is a major benefit. Additionally, security is good."
"The solution operates via zero-touch configuration."
"The most valuable features of this solution are load balancing and the security possibilities you have."
"The most valuable feature for me is the security functionality."
"The solution is scalable."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Its price could be better."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The blocklist on the Cisco Meraki side isn't complete or very large. We'd like to see them update and expand this."
"There are currently issues with NAT-Unfriendly situations on G4 networks that should be resolved."
"Meraki SD-WAN had trouble prioritizing traffic for VoIP calls."
"They stopped doing WAN optimization as a feature set, which is lacking. They need to relook at that and consider WAN optimization as an option."
"Meraki offers the client basic security, it is not the same as what FortiGate is offering."
"The granularity could be improved."
"We have had some problems doing the implementation."
"There could be more options for integration between other devices — sort of being able to more easily make everything integrated in one solution."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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