Get a Cisco person to talk to you about the ASA series. I did a PIX 515E to ASA 5505 replacement and things looked good. The company I was with at the time would not go for the SmartFilter but it was available. They did do the license upgrade though so that AnyConnect was available as well as the traditional VPN client. The language was different and there was some new stuff to do but over all it was good. I would also look at maybe an ISA appliance as well.
Jon On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hola fellow admin peoples, > > I'm looking to replace our end of life Pix 515e firewalls. We have > two, one for each inbound ISP. My SmartFilter subscription is also > about to expire and I'm thinking I might like to move to a unified > security solution. So far, the only candidate I've found is the > Sonciwall NSA series, specifically the NSA240 for our size network. > It looks like it can do: > > 1) WAN failover (1 firewall, multiple ISPs) > 2) Traditional packet inspection / NAT, etc. > 3) Layer 7 application inspection > 4) Content filtering (to replace the SmartFilter) > 5) A host of other buzzword goodies > > My questions are: > > 1) Are there any competing products that I should be loooking at? I > can't seem to figure out if the Cisco ASA5500 series is comparable on > all features. > 2) Anyone have firsthand experience with the fully tricked out NSA 240 > with the Gateway Security Suite of addons? Any comments you can > share? > 3) I seem to remember some pretty fervent anti-SonicWall comments here > lately, mostly due to offshoring of tech support. Am I remembering > that correctly? Is it really so bad as to knock SonicWall off the > list of contenders? > > Thanks one and all for any suggestions/ideas/comments, > > RS > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
