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Juniper SRX vs Untangle NG Firewall

Juniper SRX
29 Ratings
Untangle NG Firewall
17 Ratings

Juniper SRX

29 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 29 reviews and ratings

Untangle NG Firewall

17 Ratings
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Score 9.6 out of 100

Based on 17 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Juniper SRX

SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.

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Untangle NG Firewall

Untangle is very strong in the "traditional" sense of security. That means an edge appliance that either works with an existing router or is the router itself (recommended). This approach has also been adapted well to cloud environments in order to protect virtual servers and VDI workstations.As mentioned earlier, many schools are using cloud-based filtering for their 1:1 solutions for their students. This is an area where Untangle is unable to serve. Some have used an instance of Untangle in the cloud with VPN to serve their remote needs, but it is not the same as solutions that are designed for cloud-based filtering of devices without VPN.

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Bryce Holland | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Feature Rating Comparison

Firewall

Juniper SRX
7.9
Untangle NG Firewall
9.5
Identification Technologies
Juniper SRX
7.4
Untangle NG Firewall
8.3
Visualization Tools
Juniper SRX
5.3
Untangle NG Firewall
9.4
Content Inspection
Juniper SRX
8.5
Untangle NG Firewall
9.6
Policy-based Controls
Juniper SRX
8.5
Untangle NG Firewall
9.6
Active Directory and LDAP
Juniper SRX
7.3
Untangle NG Firewall
8.9
Firewall Management Console
Juniper SRX
6.7
Untangle NG Firewall
9.9
Reporting and Logging
Juniper SRX
8.1
Untangle NG Firewall
9.7
VPN
Juniper SRX
9.5
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0
High Availability
Juniper SRX
9.4
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0
Stateful Inspection
Juniper SRX
9.1
Untangle NG Firewall
9.5
Proxy Server
Juniper SRX
7.3
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0

Pros

Juniper SRX

  • Edge Device (Tunneling & Routing)
  • Routing Instances
  • Zone Based Firewall
  • L3 Gateway/Vlan termination
  • DHCP Server & DHCP Relay
  • Good support community & Good available documentation
  • Good support by the Vendor

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Untangle NG Firewall

  • Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
  • Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
  • Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
  • Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.

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Cons

Juniper SRX

  • 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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Untangle NG Firewall

  • The full suite can be expensive for business but will be powerful enough.
  • The full suite for home or small office isn't that bad of a price but may be out of reach for most home users but remember the basics are FREE so anyone can get started with it.
  • I would like to see it promoted for mid to large businesses as I think it can handle it.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew

Juniper SRX

Juniper SRX 9.1
Based on 1 answer
No answer on this topic is available.

Untangle NG Firewall

Untangle NG Firewall 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Service renewal is in Feb 2021. We will be renewing!

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Support Rating

Juniper SRX

Juniper SRX 6.4
Based on 6 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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Untangle NG Firewall

Untangle NG Firewall 8.3
Based on 3 answers
I haven't used them much, but they did answer my question quickly.

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Alternatives Considered

Juniper SRX

The comparison between the different firewalls is really down to preference and price at this point. The SRX is a solid device, and we have not seen a hardware failure to date. The Juniper support I have had is stellar and has helped me out with larger more complex scenario development.

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Eric Stephenson | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Untangle NG Firewall

NG Firewall was much more friendly in terms of layout and ease of use, the apps section is familiar to anyone and the config while in a sort of odd order is very clearly laid out. I also appreciate Untangle's endless educational videos and the support can't be beat. Overall it was more of a complete package

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Juniper SRX

  • Although I'm not a part of the budgeting process, I do know that by using Juniper SRXs, we were able to get the products we needed with much less issues and justifications as other product we've purchased in the past.

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Robert Beck | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Untangle NG Firewall

  • The positive is the savings in time the IT department has recouped by not having to continuously clean and maintain end point computers. Not to mention helping end user use their time more wisely by not wasting time on non-work related web activities.
  • The only negative is complaints from end users about the restrictions.

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Ken Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Juniper SRX

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Juniper SRX Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Untangle NG Firewall

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$25 per month

Untangle NG Firewall Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition
z4 appliance$2991
z4w appliance$3291
z4 Plus appliance$399.001
z6 appliance$1199.001
z12 appliance$1999.001
z20 appliance$3499.001
  1. one-time purchase
SaaS Edition
Open Source Firewall$0.001
NG Firewall Complete$25.002
  1. free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
  2. per month
Additional Pricing Details
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Juniper SRX
9.4
Untangle NG Firewall
9.6

Likelihood to Renew

Juniper SRX
9.1
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0

Support Rating

Juniper SRX
6.4
Untangle NG Firewall
8.3

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