We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SonicWall TZ has an edge in this comparison. Unlike SonicWall NSa, its reviewers mention seeing an ROI.
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"The product is simple to manage."
"The solution can scale."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"The filtering is excellent."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"The solution is stable."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"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."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"It's very hard to manage this box. You really need a lot of skills to operate the SonicWall. There is training and the like, but it's just hard to manage. Even if you have the knowledge, there are too many options. The menus are not very clear, where you should find the information."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"User interface could be improved."
"The marketing of SonicWall has to be increased. Currently, when it comes to firewalls, most people go for Cisco and Palo Alto. SonicWall should improve its marketing and branding policies to increase sales. Other than that, it is good."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". SonicWall NSa is most compared with Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall NSa vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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Basically, the main difference is that the TZ series is intended for a Branch office since it has fewer ports and the speed is around 1 GB.
The NSA series has more processor power and more port where you can create subnets and zones (like DMZ). Also, it has ports with 10 Gb and a processor to support the demand.
I have read that an approximate number of users in the highest TZ series (TZ 670) is around 150 to 200 but that is just an estimate.
Hope this helps. You can get more details in SonicWall datasheets where you will find the speed, throughput and more technical specifications to select the one that fits your requirements.
In simple words,
TZ is for small businesses (less than 100, maximum 150 users).
TZ has fewer ports.
NSA is for medium and large enterprises: > 150 Users,
NSA has many ports to support large networks