We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and Huawei Enterprise Routers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The security on offer is very good."
"There is a lot of information available about routers and how to configure Huawei Routers right now."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"The product’s technical support team is responsive."
"The solution offers good customer support and good performance."
"This product uses a non-proprietary command line, which makes it compatible across many different systems."
"Overall we have found the solution to be satisfactory."
"The most valuable features for us are NAT, ATS, server capabilities, VPN tunneling, and management."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"It would be better if the vendor provided support for small enterprises."
"The product’s performance could be better."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"Syntax in the implementation process could be easier to understand for a new user or someone who doesn’t have prior experience using the product."
"The only problem I see is configuration loss."
"They should include features like IPS for security and response."
"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."
"We'd like the product to be more flexible so that we could more easily manipulate some of the features."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in WAN Edge with 306 reviews while Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 24 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Cisco SD-WAN, Juniper MX Series Routers and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Huawei Enterprise Routers report.
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