We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Meraki MX 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 customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"Five out of five ROI."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"Managed centrally over the web: You can manages all your Meraki devices in a single account."
"Simple to manage."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"In general, the SD-WAN feature needs to be improved. The load sharing and load balancing of the traffic should be improved. I have had some problems with these features in the past."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"More detail needed for configuration of the VPN."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and A10 Networks Thunder CFW, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Meraki MX report.
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