"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The solution is stable and suitable."
"Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy."
"The division of Control Plane and Data Plane is most valuable. It can be deployed anywhere, and you can control it and configure it from anywhere. This is one of the good features of this solution."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the next-generation firewall features and geo-blocking capabilities."
"The flexibility is a great feature."
"It is very easy to deploy. The GUI interface is really good, and the security features are also very good. It is also stable and scalable, and their support is also good."
"There are great security and ops features without the need for having a different box for security."
"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
"SASE is the next big thing that is coming up, and it needs to be developed in Versa. This is the only thing that needs to be adapted very quickly by Versa. With the pandemic going on, I would like to see more features for working from home. They have launched Versa Secure Access (VSA), but it is currently immature. They need to tighten it up for work from home and SD-WAN concept."
"Another thing that should be improved in Versa are their firewall features."
"The smaller units lack a lot of functionality."
"The security should be improved."
"Future releases should contain AI for the voice feature."
"I heard about them for the first time just before I started working on Versa. They do have blogs for information, but they could publicize more about the documentation and architecture. It doesn't seem to have that much exposure, and they should work on their customer base more."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 166 reviews while Versa FlexVNF is ranked 7th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 8 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Versa FlexVNF is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "Stable, easy to set up, and offers good ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa FlexVNF writes "Very user-friendly and nimble software platform solution". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with pfSense, Cisco ASA Firewall, Sophos XG, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX, whereas Versa FlexVNF is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Meraki SD-WAN, Zscaler SASE and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Versa FlexVNF report.
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