sonicwall nsa 240

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Published on 2011-02-20T21:19:44Z Indexed on 2011/02/20 23:26 UTC
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Hi

We are looking into putting a hardware firewall into a data center to protect our rack of servers.

We are using the servers for terminal services and we have 2 x 1GB connections to the Internet.

We have about 50 servers supporting about 250 users which will grow very soon to 500 users.

We plan to purchase 2 hardware firewalls to provide HA.

Do you think the Sonicwall NSA 240 with Total Secure is a good match for this in terms of performance and protection (from spyware, virus etc?) or is there a better purchase? (Maybe a Watchguard X5 or X8?)

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