We performed a comparison between Cradlepoint NetCloud and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to set up and requires a single administrator to maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automatic failover."
"Cradlepoint NetCloud is very stable."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"It is missing important settings options."
"In our situation, the initial setup was complex."
"The performance of group-based clouds should be enhanced."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
Cradlepoint NetCloud is ranked 18th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 3 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 306 reviews. Cradlepoint NetCloud is rated 7.0, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cradlepoint NetCloud writes "Simple to install and reliable, but technical support should improve their response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cradlepoint NetCloud is most compared with Peplink SpeedFusion, Meraki SD-WAN, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Abiquo, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cradlepoint NetCloud vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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