We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"It's a stable solution."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"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."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"Sometimes there is a glitch between the network connection. Last time, something happened on our IP phone, the SonicWall team did some updates to fix the issue. However, glitches happen very rarely. I did not experience any other types of problems."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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