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 >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
