We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"It has been stable so far."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Lacks training for new features."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"It could be more secure."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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