Monday, August 12, 2019

Firewall or router for an MPLS connected branch office?

Our standard office setup is pair of firewalls on the edge and as many switches as we need in a stack inside. Bear in mind these offices are less than 100 people .

Offices have 2 MPLS links back to us with centralised internet breakout . The only thing that breaks out locally is guest internet.

I can't see any advantages in using firewalls instead of routers in these branches. They cost more, have lower throughput, lack advanced traffic shaping/QoS etc.

We have a new office coming online towards the end of the year and I want to put routers on the edge instead of ha ASA's, my boss disagrees.

What appliance would you out on the edge in this deployment?



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