Scenario: This company wants to use a standard Internet connection to connect to a supplier in order to integrate with the supplier's ordering systems.
Approximate budget: No limit.
Requires: A VPN appliance.
Concerns: The company has no control over the supplier's end of the connection, so interoperability with other vendors' products is vital. Security is very important as well as data throughput.
Final words
The results of our performance tests show SonicWall to be the fastest unit of the bunch. However, it was only marginally faster than the Juniper, Fortinet, and Watchguard products.
With not much in it in terms of throughput we suggest you look at what's most important to you like the number of tunnels, other features like content filtering, antivirus, and price.
