I have a need to refresh about 10 firewalls in 10 facilities, the facilities currently are connected through IPSec site to site VPN, most have Cisco 5505 and it's all working fine , just getting up there in age.. I have little traffic between sites as there isn't much resource sharing.
I could go with cisco again, I just don't like the nickle & diming they do (like pay more to enable more than 3 interfaces, some of the 5505s had limited internal hosts etc.. the firepower lineup seems like a huge cost creep when you start adding services, SMARTnet is pretty pricey etc.. it turns into lot of gotchas now or later if you don't realize what cisco does that)
I get that you get what you pay for, but...
our budgets are very tight, I have no problem moving on from cisco if it saves some cash. My industry is very low tech to begin with, I just want reliability of the hardware.
are there any true SMB hardware providers to consider? I like GUI, I don't care about CLI as once we set them up they will sit alone for years on end (other than random change/reboot/updates). 100-200Mbps throughput would be plenty too.
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