We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and VMware SD-WAN 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."Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"They make use of a combination of different internet lines, which improves quality."
"It can be used for load balancing and load sharing. It's easy to use and customizable."
"When extra capacity is needed, we can get it very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SD-WAN is security. Additionally, the integration and configuration are easier to do than with other solutions, such as Cisco."
"It's scalable."
"I love the solution because of its many features like cluster and cloud VPN."
"The service they provide is very stable and is the main influencer of why customers purchase this solution."
"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"The dashboards could be improved."
"They need more gateways"
"There is room for improvement in the pricing."
"There is room for improvement with respect to security."
"VMware SD-WAN is harder than Cisco. It is complex, and we must take many steps to get the service. I think it would be beneficial if obtaining licenses could be simplified. Currently, numerous options and integrations are bundled together, which can make it quite complex."
"The only thing that I'm having issues with is on one of the sites, I can't see the location on the map."
"The initial setup could be simplified for beginners."
"VMware SD-WAN could be improved with more automation and more integration, but each vendor could use these improvements."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 13th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 39 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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