We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SonicWall TZ has an edge in this comparison. Unlike SonicWall NSa, its reviewers mention seeing an ROI.
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"The filtering is excellent."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The solution is stable."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"It's a very cost-effective solution."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"It's a stable solution."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"The content ID needs to be improved."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The products' reporting can be improved."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"We have experienced some issues with SonicWall TZ and they are lacking some advanced features other vendors have."
"Sonic Analyzer could be improved. It's difficult to manage and not very intuitive."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 36 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Easy to scale advanced threat protection solution with knowledgeable technical support, but has occasional bugs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Multifeatured firewall solution with a user-friendly interface, high availability, scalability, and stability". SonicWall NSa is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX. See our SonicWall NSa vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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Basically, the main difference is that the TZ series is intended for a Branch office since it has fewer ports and the speed is around 1 GB.
The NSA series has more processor power and more port where you can create subnets and zones (like DMZ). Also, it has ports with 10 Gb and a processor to support the demand.
I have read that an approximate number of users in the highest TZ series (TZ 670) is around 150 to 200 but that is just an estimate.
Hope this helps. You can get more details in SonicWall datasheets where you will find the speed, throughput and more technical specifications to select the one that fits your requirements.
In simple words,
TZ is for small businesses (less than 100, maximum 150 users).
TZ has fewer ports.
NSA is for medium and large enterprises: > 150 Users,
NSA has many ports to support large networks