I can tell you we run some Fortinet solutions for large Enterprises
and I know of one Financial institution in London that uses a lot of
Fortinet firwewalls.
I know Fortinet had a lot of success with universities in the UK at
least, who use the firewalling and AV as an edge solution.
We too use Netscreen, Checkpoint and Fortinet along with NetASQ, and
I would agree that Fortinet's major success has been on the low end,
but they certainly do have some high end customers and certainly very
capable in that space.
What would be the best solution would depend on what functionality is
required for the solution.
I would agree that Sonicwall was and probably still is a SOHO/SME solution.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Leandro Reox [mailto:lmet5on@fibertel.com.ar]
Sent: 01 May 2006 21:11
To: Nick Rigas
Cc: Luke Gill; Ali Karimi; firewalls@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Fortinet firewalls
Nick
Netscreen are not only a "home" oriented firewall/vpn platform as i see
with sonicwall and fortinet. But you may asking yourself "sonicwall and
fortinet are not implementable in a business enviroment" ... yes, they
are, but in a little enterprise (much like home :P ) but i can say this
not only by reading the product datasheets, i have the placer to work
with all of the platforms named on this topic, and netscreen is a big
big big product, like checkpoint, this are a really stable and mature
security platforms, so mature that are implemented in big backbone
infraestructures here in argentina.
my $0.02
Leandro Reox
www.securearg.net
Nick Rigas escribió:
Could you explain why you prefer the Netscreen firewalls?
Nick Rigas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Gill [mailto:lukegill@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:55 PM
To: Ali Karimi
Cc: firewalls@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Fortinet firewalls
I have had both Netscreens and Fortinets installed in our production
network, and feel that the Netscreen is a much better product than
either Fortinet or Sonicwall.
One of my former employees used to refer to Sonicwall as "my first
firewall".
On May 1, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Ali Karimi wrote:
Hi:
We have a network of 120 systems in 3 location 60 in CA, 40in NY, 20
in CO and we are planning for upgrading our firewall and VPN system,
our original plan was to go with Sonicwall but we were contacted by
Fortinet, I'd like to know if anyone in this group used this product
and how you rate their products and tech support?
Thanks
Ali
