We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The technical support is great."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The setup is quite easy."
"I use Meraki in my POCs and with my customers as well."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"In terms of WAN optimization, it's completely cloud-controlled. Anyone can manage their network environment from a mobile phone."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The solution doesn't seem to be very mature. Our networking team says they are experiencing a lot of issues in the firewalls and some routers."
"The documentation needs to be improved. When they retire old models, they also retire the documentation. However, if you are still using an older model, you still need access to that documentation. And yet, they go ahead and removed it. It's gone. You are therefore stuck with a device with no documentation and technical support that isn't very helpful as they also remove support assistance as well."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 13th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 20 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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