SonicWave Unintuitive and Cumbersome
My company has deployed SonicWall Firewall with SonicWave AP's at two companies. Originally the SonicWall WiFi firewall appliance was …
SonicWave Series
SonicWall SonicWave Series
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What is SonicWave Series?
SonicWall offers the SonicWave series of WiFi access points. The SonicWave is available in the SonicWave 200 and SonicWave 400 series.
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What is SonicWave Series?
SonicWave Wireless Access Points from SonicWall provide businesses an enhanced user experience by delivering the performance, range and reliability of 802.11ac Wave 2 and 802.11ax technologies. It includes security and wireless features and boasts ease of deployment and management at a low total cost of ownership.
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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April 26, 2022
SonicWave Unintuitive and Cumbersome
My company has deployed SonicWall Firewall with SonicWave AP's at two companies. Originally the SonicWall WiFi firewall appliance was deployed with the possibility of expanding wifi for these customers. Which was the case. We were told that they will mesh easily into the current production environment. This was not the case. This product is not intuitive and is difficult to add to a SonicWall 300w Firewall appliance. There are other solutions with better cost benefits and user friendliness than this product.
- Provide reasonable wifi service when configured correctly
- Settings rich for the network engineer
- Aesthetically pleasing to the eye
- Detailed setup instructions
- Auto Setup Feature for mesh
- Provide filters without a yearly subscription
This product does is not intuitive to setup. Having to create Zones and rules just to add a SonicWave AP is simple too difficult, especially when other competitors products are easy to setup. We added this product to a SonicWall WiFi firewall appliance and could not mesh it into the existing ip scheme. Had to create Zones and forwarding rules so employees could use resources on the networks main ip scheme. Other products, such as Ubiquit, are by far more intuitive. Not to mention you don't have to pay for every little feature such as web filtering.
- WiFi throughput
- WiFi range
- WiFi connections
- Negative effect on time to setup.
- Expensive and not intuitive.
- Works well once setup.
SonicWall falls short when compared to Ubiquiti. Ubiquiti Networks provide products that are intuitive, feature rich and priced for small to medium businesses. SonicWall is feature rich although you have to pay extra to unlock those features.
April 19, 2022
Secure and user friendly user interface
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Engineer in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 201-500 employees
SonicWall SonicWave Series offers security to our business network.We use SonicWall SonicWave Series at our office and we have up to 5 locations so we use the VPN function of SonicWall SonicWave Series as well. The software provides great antivirus capabilities, and content filtering as well.You can be in complete control of your network using SonicWall SonicWave Series.
- The problem we are addressing with SonicWall SonicWave Series is security over our network. We handle information and have to keep everything confidential. So we use SonicWall SonicWave Series to keep our network safe from intrusion and anybody who may want to try to get into our system to do harm
- There is much difference in the CLI command statements from version old version and new version i.e v7.5. Sonicwall need to be improve their customer support.
The SonicWall SonicWave Series Dashboard from version v7.0 is easy to Manage and add the policies. Unlike others vendor firewalls, the SonicWall SonicWave Series firewall has multiple ports already built-in. We can set up both Site to Site and SSL VPN in less time with the newly upgraded GUI. In Sonicwall, multiple preconfigured security profiles protect the network when it deploys.
- as configuration and operation are basic importance for any network for sustaining and following the policies, the best user interface and policies options in sonic wall along with monitoring and troubleshooting features are good.
- initial deployment and setup are simple.
- Multifactor authentication support is available.
- onfiguration of IPsec VPN tunnel is simple in Sonicwall compared to other vendors.
- Inspection of packets in both In and Out directions.
- Technical documents are not that much available on the internet
- Whenever we change the real-time data report option, it asks for a device reboot.
- We can wireless access points of Sonicwall, and they can be managed through the same Sonicwall dashboard.
- Diagnostics option in GUI is very helpful, it has most of the troubleshooting tools.
Sometimes it takes a little bit of work to set up personal allowlists and exclusions using RegEx to allow things that ordinarily should be blocked. But it is still a breeze to do.We used to use Watchguard years ago, then moved to SonicWall SonicWave Series.
We are using SonicWave access points for our branch offices. Those offices already have SonicWall firewall and hence is easy to manage and control. This serves our basic purpose of secure wifi and is also cost-effective. Around 12 to 15 users connecting behind 1 SonicWave device. There are also 3 SonicWave we have procured and deployed in our organization.
- Easy deployment
- Cost effective
- Basic management from SonicWall firewall and even cloud management options available now.
- Stable and, hence, suitable for corporate usage.
- To troubleshoot the issues it is difficult to take console access and then resolve it.
- It cannot work independently.
- Logging options are not there, and for logs and reports, again another tool or appliance is required.
If you are having a small network or environment in which users count is less and if you are already using SonicWall firewall or UTM devices as network security. SonicWave will be the best suitable for you to provide wireless connectivity features for your users. This is even suitable when there are a lot of guests visiting your office and you want to have a separate network topology for them.
- Mobile management.
- POE supported power option.
- Zero touch deployment.
- Our users are happy accessing applications and web-sites from their mobile devices, where cellular network is least.
- We are controlling their Social media access and also denying access to unwanted or malicious websites, which is increasing their daily work output.
- We have not recorded any negative impacts as such.
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We evaluated Aruba and then evaluated SonicWall. SonicWall had fewer features, but it was cost-effective and suitable for our budget. Aruba, on other hand, was a dedicated WiFi solution and it was way costlier than SonicWall firewall and access point together, hence we selected SonicWall Sonicwave for our branch offices and Aruba for our head office where user count is more, and even management users are present in head office.
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