We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and MikroTik Routers and Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I can say that the product is easy to use...The initial setup of the product was easy."
"The most valuable feature is that I can completely isolate devices that are compromising the network."
"Integration is good, as well as price and technical support."
"The most valuable feature of FortiSwitch is its user-friendly interface, which facilitates easy management and propagation of rules throughout the network."
"The technical support has been very good."
"Ability to manage FortiAP, FortiClient, and FortiGate all from a single console"
"Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access has good scalability."
"I would rate the the ease of management and scalability within our network architecture an eight out of ten, with ten being best."
"What I like best about MikroTik Routers and Switches is its easy handling. The product also has a significantly good interface."
"Load balancing is one of the valuable features of the solution...In short, MikroTik provides a very user-friendly GUI option."
"I like MikroTik's GUI. It's completely handy and easy to handle because of its GUI. Despite other brands like Cisco urging me to switch, I didn't because they don't have a GUI. This is the most comfortable thing in my project that anyone can use easily. It's effortless to maintain MikroTik routers because both screens make it very easy in GUI mode. You can easily interact with your hardware."
"It is a stable solution. I have been using the solution for a while, and I don't face any outages or trouble while using the solution."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The stability is good."
"The radius and wireless features are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"It has a lot of features. I haven't explored them all yet."
"Renewing the annual licenses for Secure the Switch FortiSwitch can be cumbersome, especially considering the relatively high cost of Fortinet licenses."
"While Fortinet is good for school boards and mid-sized businesses, enterprise-class networks require a zero-trust solution. If you're building a zero-trust network with end-to-end security, that's where Fortinet falls behind Cisco, HPE, and Aruba."
"It would be easier if Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access could be managed via cloud, and this is something that could be improved in this product. Bandwidth display could also be better."
"Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is confusing with too many add-ons."
"The initial setup is pretty easy; we have built a knowledge base. But there's a learning curve for beginners."
"The central management needs improvement. The initial setup could be easier."
"It could be simpler but compared to the competition, it's not so bad."
"In Fortinet, the packet reconstruction in the SD-WAN solution needs a little bit of improvement. When it comes to the Secure Access to the switches or the mix of Fortinet solution, the very small ones do not have the capability to use fiber cables. So, the small FortiGates have to work with the copper cables and cannot use fiber cables. Even though they have the capacity and throughput on all technical connectors, they don't have the interfaces, which is one of the good things with Cisco. They just add models to it. You buy the independent models, and you add them."
"MikroTik does not have a wireless solution. If they created a high-performance wireless solution we would deploy it in our infrastructure."
"The product needs to include more power."
"In the Israeli market, we are in need of Hebrew support."
"Improvements could be made in terms of SD-WAN capabilities and zero-touch provisioning."
"The ports could be improved, as certain areas may need to be terminated with a greater number of Ethernet ports. We initially faced challenges that hindered our network usage, especially with third-party applications that were not certified or supported. It took some time to streamline and resolve these issues."
"They lack the extended warranty for the equipment. They only provide a warranty for one year as compared to the other vendors who offer a warranty for three years, five years, and lifetime, etc."
"They need to create a license for IBS. I have a lot of clients that have spam on their networks."
"The solution needs to improve its security firewalls and mirror that of, for example, Sophos, or FortiGate."
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Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is ranked 7th in Ethernet Switches with 40 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 6th in Ethernet Switches with 62 reviews. Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is rated 8.2, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access writes "It's a strong product that's easy to manage and costs significantly less than competing solutions ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Aruba Switches and Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches. See our Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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