Fortinet/FortiGate - experience and observations?

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Fortinet/FortiGate - experience and observations? sphealey 10-24-2006
Posted by sphealey on October 24, 2006, 5:17 pm
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Fortinet and its FortiGate product line seem to have appeared out of
nowhere since the last time I looked at the firewall market. Does
anyone have any experience with their products (esp at the high end of
the SMB line - say the 300a)? The trade press reviews seem to indicate
that the FortiGates have reasonably high performance, provide good
price/performance ratio, but are difficult to set up. Does that match
your experience?

Specific features I am looking at are QoS and two-ISP load sharing.

Thanks.

sPh


Posted by www.BradReese.Com on October 24, 2006, 7:29 pm
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You may wish to investigate the Miercom Competitve Lab Tests between
the:

Fortinet FortiGate 1000

vs.

Cisco ASA 5520

Juniper Networks NetScreen-208

Checkpoint VPN-1 Pro

http://www.bradreese.com/juniper-firewall-vs-cisco.pdf

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
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Posted by on October 28, 2006, 6:14 pm
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: http://www.bradreese.com/juniper-firewall-vs-cisco.pdf

Isn't it funny when a vendor is ordering a test that their product is
always winning by far and zero fields of improvement?

Other similar readings may include:
http://www.dric.com.mx/docs/fortinet_cisco.pdf
http://www.checkpoint.com/presskit/ngx/downloads/NGX_TollyWP.pdf
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/downloads/tollyreport.pdf
http://www.netscreen.pl/PDF/Tolly_NS5200.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/asiapac/campaigns/everycorner/files/ASA_5500_Miercom_Sales_Kit.pdf
http://www.spirentcom.com/documents/atp/The_Tolly_Group-Industry_Test-1493.pdf

and:
http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/GartnerMagicQuadrantFirewalls1H06.pdf
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/Guysecurity.pdf

Good luck!

Lars

Posted by Helge Olav Helgesen on October 29, 2006, 4:45 am
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Hello www.BradReese.Com,

> http://www.bradreese.com/juniper-firewall-vs-cisco.pdf
> http://www.bradreese.com/cisco-vs-competitor.htm

I'm very scpetic where reviews give 100% to the one vendor paying for the
test.

I got a Fortigate-500 unit at work and I have better performance than you
got from the bigger FG-1000 unit. I don't use the antispam and the webfiltering
function. But you didn't test with these functions enabled.
---
Helge Olav Helgesen
http://www.helge.net



Posted by Helge Olav Helgesen on October 25, 2006, 3:47 pm
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Hello sphealey,

> Fortinet and its FortiGate product line seem to have appeared out of
> nowhere since the last time I looked at the firewall market. Does
> anyone have any experience with their products (esp at the high end of
> the SMB line - say the 300a)? The trade press reviews seem to
> indicate that the FortiGates have reasonably high performance, provide
> good price/performance ratio, but are difficult to set up. Does that
> match your experience?

We use this at work. I even spent a day with Fortinet Europe yesterday... :)

I like the product. You can do much with it.

> Specific features I am looking at are QoS and two-ISP load sharing.

QoS; supported. But I haven't tried it much. What do you need?

Load-sharing: supported. I have customers running this today. You should
have almost equal speed lines. The load is divided by connection, so you
will get unequal load anyway.
---
Helge Olav Helgesen
http://www.helge.net



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