We evaluated a few products. Later, we opted for Cisco as we already have experience working with it.

Palo Alto has a better GUI interface for handling all features and is easier to configure. 

I have used Fortinet in the past too as well as Sophos and other Cisco products. They are all similar and if you know how to use them they are virtually all the same.  

Before choosing this product, we evaluated other options. I looked for a tailored solution.

We prefer selling Cisco firewalls. We also sell Fortinet. Because Cisco's presence in our country is very good as compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto, the local customers seem comfortable with Cisco.

When we talk about Cisco, definitely the hardware is more reliable and scalable as compared to others. The support is also pretty good. These are the two good things. Definitely, Cisco Firewall is all around pretty good as compared to Fortinet.

I did not evaluate other options. I was thinking maybe Aruba might be a good option, but I did not switch over to it actually because Cisco's a big company and known in the market.

We did not evaluate anything before we started using Cisco. We didn't evaluate other options.