FIrewalls Buyers Guide
Key Features
| Key Features | | | Firewall Features | | | NAT Support | | | Connectivity |
| | With over 200 firewalls on the market, key features such as Firewall Features, NAT Support & Connectivity are important factors when buying. These features not only effect the performane and quality of the firewall you choose, but also the price. Shown below are price guides for a selection of firewalls focusing on the key features: Firewall Features, NAT Support & Connectivity. |
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| Firewall Features | | Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? MAC Address Filtering | £46.00 | | Content Filtering ? MAC Address Filtering ? Port Filtering | £304.00 | | Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? ActiveX / Script Blocking ? Cookies Blocking | £503.00 | | Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Intrusion Prevention ? Blacklist Spam Filtering ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? IP Filtering ? Network Antivirus ? ActiveX / Script Blocking ? Cookies Blocking | £925.00 | | Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Intrusion Prevention ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? Network Antivirus | £2,554.00 | | * | Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? Fragmented Packet Reassembly ? Network Antivirus ? NAT ? Spyware Filtering | £840.00 |
| | | NAT Support | | One-to-many ? NAT Traversal | £46.00 | | PAT ? Transparent Mode | £320.00 | | NAT Traversal | £518.00 | | Static ? Dynamic ? NAT Traversal ? Transparent Mode | £1,163.00 | | Static ? Dynamic ? Policy based ? PAT ? NAT Traversal | £2,355.00 | | * | Policy based ? PAT ? NAT Traversal | £1,259.00 |
| | | Connectivity | | Wireless ? Wired | £302.00 | | Wireless | £787.00 | | Wired | £2,893.00 | | * | Wired | £2,893.00 |
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* Taking into account all current firewalls on the market the most desirable would be a firewall with Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) ? DoS Prevention ? Content Filtering ? URL Filtering ? Fragmented Packet Reassembly ? Network Antivirus ? NAT ? Spyware Filtering Firewall Features, Policy based ? PAT ? NAT Traversal NAT Support and Wired Connectivity.
Price Guide
| Min | £6.13 | | Avg | £2,495.24 | | Max | £45,188.15 |
| | FIrewalls cost anywhere from £6.13 for a basic firewall with few features to around £45,188.15 for a fully featured firewall. |
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Brand Guide
| Popular Brands | | | Cisco | | | SonicWALL | | | Juniper Networks | | | ZyXEL | | | WatchGuard Technologies | | | WatchGuard |
| | The most popular firewalls brand is Cisco. The most expensive firewalls brand is Cisco. If you're looking for a bargain then look out for Hewlett Packard branded firewalls as generally they offer the cheapest firewalls. |
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