We performed a comparison between Cradlepoint NetCloud and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cradlepoint NetCloud is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automatic failover."
"It is easy to set up and requires a single administrator to maintain it."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"It is missing important settings options."
"In our situation, the initial setup was complex."
"The performance of group-based clouds should be enhanced."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
Cradlepoint NetCloud is ranked 17th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 3 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 306 reviews. Cradlepoint NetCloud is rated 7.0, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cradlepoint NetCloud writes "Simple to install and reliable, but technical support should improve their response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cradlepoint NetCloud is most compared with Peplink SpeedFusion, Meraki SD-WAN, Cisco SD-WAN, Abiquo and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cradlepoint NetCloud vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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