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    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ACisco offers a threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW), the ASA 5500-X Series. The ASA 5500 Series platforms can run either the Cisco ASA Firewall or Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The series features appliances in a variety of form factors, including standalone options for small and midsize businesses, ruggedized appliances for extreme environments, midsize appliances for security at the Internet edge, and high-performance appliances for enterprise data centers.N/A

    Juniper SRX

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AJuniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCisco ASA 5500-X pricing starts at ~$400 and scales up to $20,000 for higher capacity appliances.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides a robust product, and one of its advantages over other devices is Cisco's support. The devices have a long lifespan and rarely fail. They are easy to configure and manage, and do they do not require any additional licensing to …
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    Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
    Cisco has been industry for a long time and it's a trustworthy name. Cisco ASA 5500-X FirePOWER has the best Customer Support and robust hardware, user friendly configurations, [and] configuration documentations [are] available openly on internet. Cisco has also [been] named a …
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    Juniper Networks
    Chose Juniper SRX
    Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services and Juniper SRX
    Feature
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
    9.0
    30 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Juniper SRX
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Identification Technologies8.428 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Visualization Tools9.324 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Content Inspection8.429 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls10.028 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP10.029 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.830 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.629 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    VPN10.030 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    High Availability10.028 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection8.14 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Proxy Server7.23 Ratings9.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (30 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.2
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (29 ratings)
    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER ServicesJuniper SRX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    This firewall is best suited for the network edge/perimeter deployment. The next gen features works very well and the remote access VPN is also very much suitable for the organizations which have a huge user base working remotely. The Remote Access VPN is very much customizable and the authentication integration option like LDAP and RADIUS provides and addon.
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    Juniper Networks
    SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • The Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services model works perfectly for network edge protection scenarios.
    • It allows for the creation and connection of sites through site-to-site VPN configuration.
    • It enables remote connection and home office with remote SSL or IPSEC VPN.
    • It has layer 7 traffic protection and visibility.
    • It has anti-malware protection from start to finish.
    • The configuration is easy to perform.
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    Juniper Networks
    • Edge Device (Tunneling & Routing)
    • Routing Instances
    • Zone Based Firewall
    • L3 Gateway/Vlan termination
    • DHCP Server & DHCP Relay
    • Good support community & Good available documentation
    • Good support by the Vendor
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • URL Filtering feature could be easier to utilize for beginners
    • I'd like to see a visual of VPN networks setup and show the functioning or malfunctioning status to assist in making troubleshooting easier
    • Recommendations on ACLs for beginners based on their account creation date
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    Juniper Networks
    • My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    Ever since we installed Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services we have never had to deal with an attack. We can see in the logs almost every day hackers attempting to break into our networks and failing. We also have the ability to blacklist every IP address that attempts to break into our firewalls
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    Juniper Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Cisco
    Cisco firepower provides automatation for an organisations security operations to detect and stop the most advanced threats fast. It also assists in preventing attacks in using intelligence and innovative solutions.
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    Juniper Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    We have never had an outage caused by firewall failure. We have had a few outages caused by the internet failing or cloud applications going offline but never a firewall breaking down. When making changes we have a very strong change control, major software updates are always carried out out of working hours. At places where we have two firewalls in HA, we are able to do upgrades in working ours and the users will never know that an upgrade is taking place, that how great these firewalls are
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    Juniper Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cisco
    The Cisco ASA 5500X with Firepower performance needs consideration before deploying. Although the solution is Pay as you grow, adding additional features to the system has a negative impact on overall throughput. I would more like now only to deploy the Cisco FPR units as they have better performance and will last the test of time.
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    Juniper Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cisco
    I would recommend the purchase of the Smartnet 24x7 service in the case of a unit and the Smartnet 8x5NBD in the case of only one appliance installed on site. This service is important to always have the latest firmware updates, corrective updates and especially the hardware warranty and maintenance service in case of problems. The service is done by phone or on the official Cisco website and I can say that it is very good and efficient.
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    Juniper Networks
    This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    We implemented a centralized management of all our Cisco ASA 5500-x with FirePOWER Services so that we can have a holistic view of all our sites in London and other European countries. This also helps when making changes, instead of login on to each firewall we can use Firepower Management Center (FMC) to central deploy changes across all devices
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    Juniper Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Previous],] I was using the [pfSense] in my organization but when i switched to [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] I realized there are lots of issue and missing security features in [pfSense]. The deployment and configuration is very easy as compare to [pfSense]. I highly recommend this product to everyone.
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    Juniper Networks
    Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Working of remote workforce made easy
    • Security was enhanced on the data traffic shared with the vendors due to the use of VPNs
    • Inbound attacks were mostly blocked on the edge and saved a lot of resources (which could had been used in case of attacks getting successful on the application servers)
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    Juniper Networks
    • It is a workhorse for our field operations. It provides the last touch for an ISP to the customer. The customer has no view of the device, but with the repeatability of the device, they do not need to.
    • The ability to roll out a dynamic routing protocol attached to a security zone allows elasticity to the environment that supports growth.
    • VLAN support on the inside interfaces allow this to be the only device in some smaller deployments we install these in.
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