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What's the differences between Fortinet and SonicWall firewalls ?

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Question added by Alaa Hassan Khallaf Sherif , System Administrator , Egyptian Group for Manufacturing Investments (Ceramica Prima)
Date Posted: 2015/10/20
Alaa Hassan Khallaf Sherif
by Alaa Hassan Khallaf Sherif , System Administrator , Egyptian Group for Manufacturing Investments (Ceramica Prima)

Asalam Alycom :) , 

I've already both of them in my company,

Fortinet is stronger than in UTM and has more features not in SonicWall for example :

1) In Fortigate you've unlimited no. of IPsec and SSL VPN users but in SonicWall you've only2 SSL VPN users and IPsec . 

2) Traffic Shaping in Fortigate is an important feature but it isn't in the current SonicWall firmware.

3) Fortinet can be used as a controller for Forti-APs (Access Points) "i.e : there is no need to by an expensive controller for your wifi APs like in Cisco " 

to get good reports in Fortigate you need a FortiAnalyzer Appliance but in SonicWall I think the reports is better .finally I see Fortinet is better in general.

Zafar Uddin
by Zafar Uddin , Senior Network Security Engineer , FCm Travel solution India PVT Ltd.

Both firewalls has capabilities of  unified threat management, both firewall has different gui to manage firewall

Adel Alkatheri
by Adel Alkatheri , Systems and Security Administrator , Tamer Group

almost they have the same features, but Fortinet more flexible ( in therm of licensing and renewal ). please let me know if you need more help.

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