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Im looking for a firewall appliance to secure our company's network.
We are around 500 users, can anybody from IT vendors suggest a few reputable brand names?

Are you looking for software or hardware firewalls?

Hardware firewall buddy.

Unfortunately, Cisco's the only brand that seems to be easy to get here. Is that in your budget? I've seen a few higher end D-Links but I doubt they have the capacity you require. There are some other available brands but not sure of their immediate availability (Watchguard and Fortinet).

Have you considered building your own? It might come out cheaper in the long run.

- Kerio Winroute Firewall -

Has VERY RICH reporting system. If you like charts and nicely detailed reports.

http://www.kerio.com/kwf_home.html

gamercowboy wrote:Unfortunately, Cisco's the only brand that seems to be easy to get here. Is that in your budget? I've seen a few higher end D-Links but I doubt they have the capacity you require. There are some other available brands but not sure of their immediate availability (Watchguard and Fortinet).

Have you considered building your own? It might come out cheaper in the long run.

Budget is not a problem, so I prefer to buy an appliance rather than to build one. Im also concerned about the local support and maintenance of the product. My friend suggest juniper, cisco, checkpoint and Fortinet. Any comment on this product, specially for those who are using these products already.

[quote="Not_Sure"]- Kerio Winroute Firewall -

Has VERY RICH reporting system. If you like charts and nicely detailed reports.


reporting is a one feature that im looking at. It will be helpful to my manager. I believed most of the branded firewalls nowadays have reporting features.

fraenheit69000 wrote:Budget is not a problem, so I prefer to buy an appliance rather than to build one.

Do you work for the military or something? Budget is *always* a problem here in the civilian world

fraenheit69000 wrote:Im also concerned about the local support and maintenance of the product. My friend suggest juniper, cisco, checkpoint and Fortinet. Any comment on this product, specially for those who are using these products already.

Cisco is the market leader here (not saying they're the best) so they have the most available support but be prepared to pay significantly more. I hear mostly good things about Juniper's and Checkpoint's hardware but I have also heard of unresponsive support from Checkpoint.

That being said, I'm not the best source for info on hardware firewalls — especially not enterprise level.

who said just cisco...!...
a lot of linux-based firewalls all around and for free.

Cisco ASA 5501 probaly cost $500

I'd be happy to help you out. I build custom firewalls for a living.
24x7 local support is available as well.

Google 'kannayath' for more information.

This pos system is not bad also, this is from Singapore.