We performed a comparison between SonicWall Connect Tunnel and SonicWall SMA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The best features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the advanced security features it offers."
"The solution is reliable and has good overall performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is they have IT consultants that know SonicWall."
"I like the load balancing capability."
"What I like best about SonicWall SMA is the relationship between its features and its price, because the solution is both affordable and functional."
"SonicWall SMA allows us to provide CML-based access to any user."
"This solution has many options for remote desktop and access."
"The management and the dashboard are the solution's most valuable features."
"Secure Mobile Access (SMA) is easy to configure and the deployment is straightforward. However, this is mostly because of the AWS setup."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"An improvement would be to update the look and feel of the interface, which is very traditional and doesn't fit the current market trend."
"The product's configuration, administration, and user interface are areas of concern."
"The solution could integrate better with other platforms."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
"SonicWall's reporting isn't good. Reports should be part of a data plan. The login mechanism should be improved. It would be helpful if the client could use an agent to log in. An agent-server model would improve the performance of the RDB, which consumes a lot of bandwidth."
"The problem is that when combined with what the client already has, there are two different logins and two different management systems, and these should be consolidated into a single interface."
"The timed synchronization between the network appliance needs improvement."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"User interface could be improved."
"This is an expensive solution and I think that the price could be improved."
SonicWall Connect Tunnel is ranked 17th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 2 reviews while SonicWall SMA is ranked 21st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 14 reviews. SonicWall Connect Tunnel is rated 8.6, while SonicWall SMA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall Connect Tunnel writes "Offers advanced security features and is easy to install". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall SMA writes "It allows us to provide CML-based access to any user, but the reporting could be better". SonicWall Connect Tunnel is most compared with SonicWall Netextender, Oracle VPN Connect, AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Zyxel VPN Client, whereas SonicWall SMA is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco SD-WAN, SonicWall Netextender, Peplink SpeedFusion and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks.
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