Name: SonicWall SonicWave Series
Rating: 6.7 (13 reviews)
Author: SonicWall

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Chatbot

Help Authoring

No-Code Development

Software Configuration Management

Development

Admissions and Enrollment

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounting and Tax Services

Cash Flow Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Scheduling

Freelance Management

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

.Net Development

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Build Automation

Cloud Storage

Database Management

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

Disaster Recovery

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

IT Service Providers

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Low-Code Development

Network Performance Monitoring

Object Storage

Server Virtualization

User Activity Monitoring

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Click Fraud

Contact Center

Content Management

Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Customer Data

Email Marketing

Event Management

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Website Builder

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Construction CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

API Security

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security

Catering

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Fleet Maintenance

Hotel Management

Insurance Underwriting and Rating

Interior Design

Last Mile Delivery

Lease Management

Legal Case Management

Moving Software

Plagiarism Checker

Public Transportation

Retail Management

Vertical-Specific

small

medium

Ubiquiti Networks in San Jose provides their UniFi wi-fi hotspot technology.

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi

WiFi Hotspot

Ubiquiti Networks

large

Aruba Networks offers wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions via its variety of wireless access points.

Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points

Wireless LAN

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Cisco's Meraki Go offers Indoor and Outdoor Wireless Access Points so you can have fast and reliable WiFi, no matter where your business goes. By incorporating the latest hardware standards, Meraki Go access points simply plug into your network and get to work.

Cisco Meraki Go

Cisco

Datto WIFI

Kaseya

Cisco offers the Meraki (MR) line of wireless access points supporting basic LAN with inbuilt antivirus (NAC), cloud management with network-wide access control, and location analytics, as well as support for indoor and outdoor spaces of various sizes across different product models.

Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

Cisco Meraki Wireles WAN Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

FortiAP is an access point from Fortinet.

FortiAP

Fortinet

SG-1100

SG-2100

SG-3100

SG-5100

XG-7100-DT

XG-7100-1U

XG-1537

XG-1541

pfSense

Firewall

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)

Purple WiFi in the UK offers wi-fi hotspot technology.

Purple WiFi

Purple

The Cisco 5520 Series Wireless LAN Controller is a highly scalable, service-rich, resilient, and flexible platform that is ideal for medium-sized to large enterprise and campus deployments.

Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller

SonicWall offers the SonicWave series of WiFi access points. The SonicWave is available in the SonicWave 200 and SonicWave 400 series.

SonicWall SonicWave Series

Wireless LAN Tools perform various network functions like optimizing traffic, maintaining reliable service across the LAN's range, and providing secure access to the LAN.

Likelihood to Recommend

SonicWall

Zero-Touch Provisioning

Additional access points can be added to a network with little to no configuration necessary.

WLAN Performance Monitoring

Dashboards, analytics, and other visualizations that show performance metrics for the network.

Topology Maps

Trees, lists, and other visualizations that show which specific devices are connected through the network.

Layer 7 Visibility

The product’s ability to show and interact with network operations at the application level. For example, it may monitor or restrict bandwidth consumed by specific web applications or websites.

Power over Ethernet Support

The product’s support for power over ethernet (PoE) connections instead of standalone power cables.

Wireless Security

The product’s security features. This may include support for standards like WPA, built-in security features such as traffic isolation, and alerts for suspicious activity.

Reviews

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Configuration options

Better gui

Old version

Customer support

Access points

Options available

Multi user

High security

Configured correctly

Broad range

Easy deployment

Aesthetically pleasing

Cost effective

Simple deployment

Home

Wireless LAN Tools

SonicWave Series

Aruba Networks Wireless WAN

Juniper Mist Edge

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.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Provide reasonable wifi service when configured correctly
Settings rich for the network engineer
Aesthetically pleasing to the eye

Things done well

Detailed setup instructions
Auto Setup Feature for mesh
Provide filters without a yearly subscription

Things done poorly

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

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Negative effect on time to setup.
Expensive and not intuitive.
Works well once setup.

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Aruba Networks Wireless WAN, Juniper Mist Edge

Other Software Used

President

SonicWall SonicWave Series 2022-04-25 09:33:59

Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Wireless Access Points

Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

SonicWALL Wireless offers us a security solution for our wireless networks that combines SonicWall's wireless access points with Wi-Fi Cloud Manager and the next-generation firewalls we use in our company. The wireless access points can be managed through the cloud using SonicWALL Wi-Fi Cloud Manager or through one of Sonic Walls next-generation firewalls.

Includes three models: the first is a sleek ceiling mount unit, the second a compact wall mount unit and a rugged unit for outdoor deployments
Uses secure installations around air gap sealing The sonic shape of the access points provides 802.11 waveform
It also uses the latest capabilities, such as multi-user, to improve wireless performance.

Be more open to the use of other technologies.
Offer more configuration options
Costs can be high if the solution to be implemented is not well selected.

Performance and further enhanced with Advanced are the features that this enterprise-grade performance enables Wi-Fi ready devices to use high-bandwidth applications such as HD multimedia, mobile and cloud applications without experiencing signal degradation sonic wave access points leverage the performance, beamforming features to enhance the wireless user experience. The Wi-Fi Cloud Manager is part of the Sonicwalls Capture Security Center cloud-based management console to govern your entire SonicWALL.

Performs spectrum analysis and executes additional security functions that help with PCI compliance with multiple transmit and receive antennas.
Optimizes signal quality range and reliability, provides security and scans for unauthorized access points, supports multiple devices, and provides support for multiple devices.
Also supports multiple devices.

SonicWall has an intuitive user interface that allows you to manage all the sound waves in a piece from a single pane of glass.
In addition, it is easy to register and onboard access points with SonicWall.
As simple as scanning the QR code, the API is automatically added to the network infrastructure once you have registered your new access points and the SonicWALL Wi-Fi Planner tool.

Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller, Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Wireless Access Points

Market Specialist

SonicWall SonicWave Series 2022-04-24 10:20:42

Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

SonicWave Series

Overview

What is SonicWave Series?

SonicWave Unintuitive and Cumbersome

Simple implementation with Sonic Wi-Fi mobile application technology.

Offers a high-speed wireless connectivity cluster

Secure and user friendly user interface

Sonicwall Sonicwave: When and why you should go for it?

Product Details

What is SonicWave Series?

SonicWave Series Technical Details

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