We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is extremely reliable."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"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."
"Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly."
"It is easy to monitor and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the firewall capability. It's also got a very good graphical user interface and is very easy to manage."
"I'm not directly involved in SD-WAN monitoring and maintenance, but based on what I've heard from our infrastructure team, it's working well."
"The Meraki interface is really well driven and very mature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The seamless end-to-end setup is really what makes it beautiful; that's why Meraki is good."
"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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."
"The analytics are weak."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"We have a lot of problems with distribution. The late deliveries likely have to do with the time it takes for the fabrication of components. It is a principal problem at this moment."
"I'd like to see improvements in the client VPN area. Currently, we use L2TP over IPSec, which, while widely supported, can be buggy on Windows due to Microsoft's implementation, not Meraki's."
"Meraki is lagging behind in using a single pipe from service providers. That is, it would be good if they could use both the internet leased line and broadband connectivity."
"The granularity could be improved."
"The area I think this solution should improve is the pricing."
"The default classes should be expanded."
"There should be a few more options for security parameters. It is currently not very customizable. It should be a little bit more customizable."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 20th 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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