Cisco Firepower 1000 Series vs Juniper SRX

Likelihood to Recommend

The Firepower 1120 appliance together with the next generation firewall license package becomes a complete and robust network protection device to protect both the LAN and WLAN networks. This model 1120 is indicated as intermediate scenarios to be able to handle all the network traffic of employees and servers. The experience is excellent and we feel very safe with this solution.

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André Santi

System Analyst

GerdauMining & Metals, 1001-5000 employees

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Juniper SRX is well suitable for large-scale organizations and also large service providers who use Advanced security and routing features and provide service to clients. juniper is very expensive and difficult to configure.

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Vipin Sharma

Network security engineer

MultiTech ServersInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

My organization is all Cisco and wants to stay in the Cisco life cycle, Firepower 1000 series is great for small to medium-size office.
Very robust enterprise-grade security solution with updated threat features to handle any current and upcoming threats. The solution is backed by Cisco to ensure constant security updates. Integrated AnyConnect remote client VPN is a big plus to allow for secure remote workers access. Easier to set up a site to site VPN due to the large user base and case studies published on integrating to other manufacturer solutions.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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One JUNOS is the Juniper mantra, including for the SRXs. While not entirely true, it comes close enough that if you learn some SRX configuration tricks, they will likely work across all of your SRXs.
Out of the box, with no additional license required, you have a NextGen firewall, by default. You can turn off the firewall and have just a plain ole router.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

These devices don't always take changes without a reboot, which can be hard in a production device.
Cisco is no always clear in how to configure things.
Routing features can be confusing, we even had a consultant a bit confused over setup.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.

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Bear Golightly

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville WrapsWholesale, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series 8.0

Based on 4 answers

Firepowers are secure, reliable, central management and configuration is easy and they fit in well with our existing Cisco infrastructure. Good feature set and support. Good management and control with chassis manager and central control with additional Firepower Management Centre.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series 7.8

Based on 16 answers

Great performance even on the lower end model of the series. You can push a lot of traffic through these devices without much performance impact. If you decide you want to inspect encrypted traffic however, you may take a big hit on the cpu and memory of the box, but they still manage to keep up even with all the bells and whistles turned on.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series 7.4

Based on 21 answers

The guarantee is very important and fundamental in technology equipment. And in that, Cisco is one step ahead as it has excellent technical support and a very good SLA level. When we used it, we were served quickly and optimally. For hardware failures, Cisco sends new equipment to the address

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João Mauricio

IT-Support

Grupo BoticárioCosmetics, 5001-10,000 employees

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Juniper SRX 6.0

Based on 4 answers

This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is a challenger; it still needs improvement to become a leader like Checkpoint or Palo Alto. I installed Palo Alto firewalls, Checkopoint firewalls, and FortiGate, which are much more efficient for now than Cisco Firepower 1000 Series. I also had to work on legacy firewalls like Cisco ASA and SonicWall.Firepower is an improvement of cisco ASA and stills better than meraki but some ASA functions like any-connect are still to improve

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Networking Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The juniper is very versatile router/firewall box. it is an excellent router/edge device with zone based firewall.

The PaloAlto and the Fortinet have better GUIs and similar firewall featureset but they are not as flexible routers.

The Cisco CSR1kv is the only box that I would rank similar or higher to the Juniper SRX as it is as versatile as a router and supports the same security feature-set as the Juniper but it has better support and Cisco IOS is more widely adopted by the industry.

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Amr Momtaz

Cloud Migration Architect

IBMComputer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We have seen improved throughput on our internet.
It took several attempts with Cisco engineers to configure the device; it requires a deep set of knowledge to set up in a more complicated environment.
This will allow us to move forward with a more stable and configurable environment with security available we didn't have before.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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It is a workhorse for our field operations. It provides the last touch for an ISP to the customer. The customer has no view of the device, but with the repeatability of the device, they do not need to.
The ability to roll out a dynamic routing protocol attached to a security zone allows elasticity to the environment that supports growth.
VLAN support on the inside interfaces allow this to be the only device in some smaller deployments we install these in.

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Eric Stephenson

Staff System Engineer

CommScopeTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Editions & Modules

Edition

Firepower 1000	1,000-5,000¹

per appliance

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Juniper SRX Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

Juniper SRX

Likelihood to Recommend