Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN gives users the ability to manage connectivity across their WAN from a single dashboard that simplifies day to day monitoring and operations. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN can be cloud-managed or deployed on premise offering comprehensive routing, security and policy control, along with advanced analytics with the flexibility to connect to multiple clouds with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency. According to the vendor, it can be deployed across a small number of…
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FortiGate
Score 8.6 out of 10
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FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.
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Pricing
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Fortinet FortiGate
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
FortiGate
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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Additional Details
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FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances.
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Nokia was very good for a large scale deployment. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN was better for a small scale deployment (cost less). The product have similar features. The differentiator was at the cost level.
All the products are providing similar functions in terms of SDWAN perspective. Furthermore, according to their origination and expertise they differ as follows: Cisco is strong on routing and switching domain, Fortinet is strong on security domain. According to customer needs …
Unlike Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet does not perform well to prioritize our business applications. Even though the Fortinet solution is cheaper, when it comes to monitoring and logging you need to pay extra. Fortinet web filtering is not very efficient and lacks some features, even …