We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The payment function for applications is good."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The GUI is good."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The UI is quite good."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"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 has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"Deployment takes no more than one working day."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The tool lacks features."
"It is very expensive."
"When we do API integrations with Meraki, they have always been hard as well as tedious to build. The data that we want out of the API integrations has been only recently available. Six months ago, it was hard to get someone to build something correctly or useful with Meraki APIs. Recently, they have made more data available on the API, but it is just a start. They need to do more."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"It can be hard to get a hold of the solution’s technical support team."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
Huawei NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 20 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. 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 Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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