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Compare Sophos XGS 116 vs Fortinet Fortigate FG-60F

Posted by undefined Saif Khan on 2024 Jun 18th

Today we're comparing Sophos Firewall XGS 116 and Fortinet Fortigate FG-60F.

Price of these depends mainly software license that is purchased. Today the Sophos Firewall XGS 116 is priced with 3yr Xstream Protection license, and, the Fortinet Fortigate FG-60F is priced with 3yr UTM license.

Important advantage with Sophos over Fortinet is that with Sophos XGS only requires 1 License is required for High Availability (HA) setup (uses 2 firewalls for Active/Standby, for Active/Active setup). For Fortinet Fortigate in HA, you'll need to purchase 2 license, that will increase the price.

While we're discussing pricing, please not that any system with purchase value of $5000+ is allegeable for great discounts if you send your request for quotes here.

SPECIFICATIONS

Sophos Firewall XGS 116

Fortinet Fortigate FG-60F
Price $2,590 (cad) $2,864 (cad)
Licenses for HA 1 2
Performance
Firewall Throughput 7,700 Mbps 10,000 Mbps
NGFW 2,000 Mbps 1,000 Mbps
Threat Protection 685 Mbps 700 Mbps
TLS inspection 650 Mbps 750 Mbps
IPS 2,000 Mbps 1,400 Mbps
Latency (64B UDP) 8 micro secs 4 micro secs
Interfaces and Modules
Fixed
GE copper (ports) 8 10
SFP slots * 1 0
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE 802.3.at 30W max) 1 0
10 GE SPF+ slots * n/a n/a
GE RJ45 shared media ports n/a 4
GE Management port RJ45 1 2
GE HA port RJ45 n/a n/a
Comm port  RJ45 1 1
Other Ports
USB 3.0  1 (front) n/a
USB 2.0  1 (rear) 1 (front)
Flexi port Modules 1 optional n/a
3G/4G module 1 n/a
5G module 1 n/a
2nd Wi-Fi 5/802.11ac module (for w-model only) 1 n/a
SFP VDSL modem 1 n/a
GbE Fiber  1 n/a
Redundancy
2nd power supply optional external optional internal non hot swappable
Dual SSD n/a n/a

NOTES: * Transceivers sold separately

Both firewalls have cloud management capability. Sophos has Sophos Central and Fortinet has FortigateCloud.

Additional cloud storage can be purchased for upto 1 year of data retention making management of these firewalls a breeze.

Both are Next Generation Firewall providing great features with Sophos Xstream Protection and FortiGuard UTM protection license. We'll compare these licenses in our next blog post.

Our recommendation is to always have High Availability setup for every business. This means pair of firewalls per location. In case 1 fails, the standby firewall automatically take over thereby allowing business operations continuity.

If you have any questions about either firewalls or would like to purchase them for your business, do  contact us. A human will be there to help!

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