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California Telecom SD-WAN Platform vs. Check Point CloudGuard

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    California Telecom SD-WAN Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a technology that offers benefits to organizations seeking to optimize their network infrastructure. California Telecom blends the benefits of SD-WAN with support and a team of Tier-3 Network engineers to provide a helping hand to come alongside organizations' boots-on-the-ground teams. Some benefits that have been identified are: Improved Network Performance: Dynamic…

    $170

    per month per installation

    Check Point CloudGuard

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACheck Point CloudGuard is a comprehensive cloud security platform used to prevent threats and prioritize risks in the cloud across applications, network, and workloads.N/A
    Pricing
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCheck Point CloudGuard
    Editions & Modules
    250 Mbps - Standard
    $170
    per month per installation
    300 Mbps - Standard
    $185
    per month per installation
    600 Mbps - Standard
    $210
    per month per installation
    1 GB - Standard
    $300
    per month per installation
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    Pricing Offerings
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCheck Point CloudGuard
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCheck Point CloudGuard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCheck Point CloudGuard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    California Telecom
    CalTel SD-WAN platform is well suited for organization that are looking for scalability but in a cost-effective way. CalTel SD-WAN platform is also suited for organization who do not want to use their internal resource managing this system
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Checkpoint Cloud Guard Native Security Platform is much better in native cloud infra security requirements. It works well, and the manageability of said product is good. But If you are having some hybrid kind of environment, it is not suitable, and the products have more complexity to deploy. There are so many other players to do well in this segment.
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    Pros
    California Telecom
    • Inovative infratructure for scalability and realiability.
    • More cost-effective from service to support
    • Proactive monitoring
    • Knowledgeable engineers
    • Seemless implementation
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Advanced Threat protection via Check Point CloudGuard proven ThreatCloud intelligence feeds for malicious IP's is a nice feature.
    • We have not set up the cloud bots auto-remediation functionality yet, but from initial testing, it looks to be something worth utilizing.
    • Having reporting tie in's with our ServiceNow asset management platform is very handy.
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    Cons
    California Telecom
    • Jim G. works well with executive staff in discovering ways to meet requirement, implement a more scalable technology, while still being cost-effective. Jim will need to replicate himself in order to be able to have others to do this type of work instead.
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Support Services - Support during implementation
    • Proof-of-concept - Needs to more detailed
    • Troubleshooting multi-cloud/ vendor issues
    • Should contain all the compliance standards - NIST, HIPPA, FedRAMP
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    Usability
    California Telecom
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.
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    Support Rating
    California Telecom
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Checkpoint support is great. They provide great SLAs and they comply with service times accordingly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    California Telecom
    Cal-Tel is more cost effective, reliable, and have a more proactive management.
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Most products have their pros and cons but Dome9 does everything Evident.io and Redlock can do and more. Evident was a good tool but merging the two products into one complicated things.
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    Return on Investment
    California Telecom
    • Moving from Windstream system to CalTel cut gave us a monthly savings of $371K /yr for our phone and internet expenses.
    • It also allowed us to be more proactive when a circuit has trouble and allowed us to have redundancy.
    • Also allowed us to easily migrate our servers to a Data-Center and manage the traffic.
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Significant $$$ cost savings as compared to other competitors in the market
    • Long term contracting also helped in cost savings and good ROI - 750k USD approx
    • Multi-vendor and Multi-cloud capabilities also helped us forecast the capex well
    • No need of any other IAM solution - Some cost savings in that area as well for us,
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