We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The documentation needs to be improved. When they retire old models, they also retire the documentation. However, if you are still using an older model, you still need access to that documentation. And yet, they go ahead and removed it. It's gone. You are therefore stuck with a device with no documentation and technical support that isn't very helpful as they also remove support assistance as well."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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