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[thixenbaugh]

Hello, 
    We are a mid-sized school in Pennsylvania, 4 buildings + admin, 3000 students etc. We are looking to replace a couple of 7+ year old SonicWall nsa 6600 devices with compairable Fortinet or PaloAlto devices, and I'm heavily leaning towards Fortinet because of a bad PaloAlto experence a number of years back at a different job. 

What is the suggested Fortinet hardware that would be compairable to the SonicWall 6600s that we have now? Currently we have dual fiber lines coming in from our primary ISP and a second fiber line coming into from a fall over ISP, All connections are currently registering as 1Gbps connections, although I'm checking with our Primary ISP if that is the true speed or just what our SonicWall is tapped out at. 

thanks in advance. 

[AEK · Accepted solution]

Hello

When comparing the specs I'd opt for a FG-120G (diskless) or FG-121G (with disk).

https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/pdf/fortigate-120g-series.pdf

In case you want more performance then you can go for a FG-200G / FG-201G.

[thixenbaugh]

I work for a public school, it's proformance up to a certian price, then it's what the school board is willing to pay for.

thanks these seem like great options. I'm going to work with our E-Rate partners to see what we can budget out. 

[Toshi_Esumi]

Just be aware that FortiOS still might need to catch up those newer G series, especially 200G, released last October. You might need to wait some time to have all features available. Probably your schoolboard would take a year or so to make the decision. Then by that time all features would be there.

Toshi

[JaxonKey]

Thank you so much for sharing the link.

[anisalewis]

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@thixenbaugh wrote:

Hello, 
    We are a mid-sized school in Pennsylvania, 4 buildings + admin, 3000 students etc. We are looking to replace a couple of 7+ year old SonicWall nsa 6600 devices with compairable Fortinet or PaloAlto devices, and I'm heavily leaning towards Fortinet because of a bad PaloAlto experence a number of years back at a different job. 

What is the suggested Fortinet hardware that would be compairable to the SonicWall 6600s that we have now? Currently we have dual fiber lines coming in from our primary ISP and a second fiber line coming into from a fall over ISP, All connections are currently registering as 1Gbps connections, although I'm checking with our Primary ISP if that is the true speed or just what our SonicWall is tapped out at. 

thanks in advance. 

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Fortinet FG-1800F or FG-2000E should be solid upgrades. They handle high throughput and redundancy well. It's worth checking with your ISP first, though!