We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Huawei Enterprise Routers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"I have been able to connect the solution to many platforms such as Windows, Apple, and Android."
"When we started, the connection was amazing for the 100G between the switches and the co-switch. What the students typically use for school is a maximum is 40 so they now have faster technology."
"The scalability is good."
"This product uses a non-proprietary command line, which makes it compatible across many different systems."
"It is a robust and efficient solution."
"The solution provides support for 5G connectivity."
"The product is good, easy to manage , and works fine."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."
"Huawei Enterprise Routers can improve by enhancing their security. The software architecture and the operating system that runs on their router and the security capability are not as strong when compared to Cisco."
"If Huawei can use its own OEM processor, it could be a good step up for future use in the network devices."
"The internet service for enterprise bundle should be improved."
"In my country we don't have Huawei technology, we only have Huawei routers for ISP. There is no agent for Huawei in Egypt."
"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."
"The product’s performance could be better."
"The configuration is complex and should be simplified."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 12th in WAN Edge with 35 reviews while Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 24 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Azure Firewall, whereas Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN and Juniper MX Series Routers. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Huawei Enterprise Routers report.
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