We performed a comparison between Citrix SD-WAN and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is brilliant, the way it calculates its paths and trails is great."
"The best feature is the backup capability, where all of the users' computers are tied into a central data repository."
"The main advantage of Citrix SD-WAN is that it enables fast communication between our branches and data centers. And, with its cloud management features, it also makes the process of adding new branches into our company network much easier."
"The stability is the main feature of Citrix SD-WAN. You can also upgrade the data packages or have less transmission."
"It allows us to use additional VPNs, offering more options compared to other VPN solutions."
"They have a zero downtime failover mechanism, where, when there's a link failure or a link weakness, or bad link conditions, they provide the ability to fail back seamlessly."
"The tool is quite cost-effective because it replaces the need for MPLS, which is a bit expensive...Citrix SD-WAN doesn't need much maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is security, as it gives me the port bindings that cannot be accomplished using other solutions."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"I would like to either see the price reduced or have it packaged with other products to give better value for the money."
"The communication around the life cycle would have been really helpful. The main issue we have had is related to the life cycle because some of the things that we are using were discontinued. They were discontinued within a year after we had purchased it, which is a bit painful. If we had known that, we would've made some other decisions."
"I would like to see support for additional reporting."
"Citrix SD-WAN's knowledge base has a few missing things, so you may need to seek help from support."
"Enhancements are needed to improve the stability."
"There are a few things that can be improved, are domain-based routing and the slowness of virtual parts, and it may be due to the wrong configuration, which we have been unable to find out."
"The price could be improved, it's an expensive solution."
"The price is the only thing that could be improved. Citrix is not a cheap solution."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"The security features need to be improved."
"They should have a GUI on the product itself, not a separate management tool to be used on the management server or on a server to be used to manage the file. It should be all in one device. The device should be controlled through its own GUI. They also have to improve the learning center and the documents as the documents don't really help."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
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Citrix SD-WAN is ranked 9th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 21 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 13th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 39 reviews. Citrix SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Citrix SD-WAN writes " A scalable solution for MCN controller but lacks technical supports, upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". Citrix SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Steelhead, Meraki SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Citrix SD-WAN vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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