We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"It enables us to not only detect but also prevent various types of incoming threats, allowing us to take appropriate corrective actions and exercise control over the network."
"The most valuable features are the WAN optimization, the internet access gateway (IAG), and the central console, which allows us to implement on their firewall."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"The technical support is very good."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"The support for YouTube or the Internet is not enough."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"The product could expand its throughput capacity."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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