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."Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The solution is stable."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"This product has a simple configuration that can be accessed through a web interface or the API."
"The most valuable feature for me is the security functionality."
"I appreciate the cloud-based management feature the most. It's a crucial aspect for me because it allows me to manage the configuration remotely without having to visit the on-premise location. The ability to do this from my home is a major benefit. Additionally, security is good."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The seamless end-to-end setup is really what makes it beautiful; that's why Meraki is good."
"The management system is one of the best available."
"The features of SD-WAN are very appealing because you have a centralized dashboard and multiple options to terminate. You have an internet leased line, which means that you can connect your broadband and 3G and 4G cellular networks on the same router. This makes it easy for us to manage everything on a single dashboard. That is, you can integrate multiple stacks in such a way that you do not have to maintain any other dashboard. You get single-pane-of-glass accessibility with Meraki."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"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 price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The deployment time of Meraki SD-WAN can vary. For someone new to the process, it could take a couple of hours. However, for someone with hands-on experience, such as myself, it only takes approximately two to three hours to set up the entire configuration."
"Some of the on-premise security features of Meraki SD-WAN are on the cloud and some of my customers do not want to use the cloud. They should have on-premise security features for those that do not want to use the cloud."
"The solution needs to enact more advanced protections."
"We have had some problems doing the implementation."
"I would like improved stability in Meraki SD-WAN."
"From the vice perspective, they just are not as robust as some of the other vendors. They have limitations in throughput and the number of circuits that they can support on a wide area network. Their higher-end security is all cloud-based. They have some capability with the premise-based solutions, but the higher ends are all cloud-based, and that's via Cisco Umbrella."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve by adding wireless access time-scheduled and overall capabilities."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 60 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, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure 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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