Thanks.  Unfortunately the contracts ran out some time ago and weren't
renewed...

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, paul chinnery <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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