If you have a Smartnet contract you needn't worry about replacing the 515E until 2013. Like you, however, I'm also thinking about what to replace the E with.
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:22:01 -0400 > Subject: New firewall recommendations > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > 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/> ~ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
