We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Offers good security and filtering."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It is a safe product."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It has been stable so far."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The stability is better than other products."
"The filtering is excellent."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"After-sales support and hands-on training facilities are not available in my country."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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