Compare Sophos XGS 2100 vs Fortinet Fortigate FG-100F
Posted by undefined Saif Khan on 2024 Jun 14th
Recently we did a comparison between Sophos Firewall XGS 2300 and Fortinet Fortigate FG-100F.
Today we're comparing Sophos Firewall XGS 2100 and Fortinet Fortigate FG-100F.
Price of these depends mainly software license that is purchased. Today the Sophos Firewall XGS 2100 is priced with 3yr Xstream Protection license, and, the Fortinet Fortigate FG-100F 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 2100 | Fortinet Fortigate FG-100F |
| Price | $9,990 (cad) | $11,522 (cad) |
| Licenses for HA | 1 | 2 |
| Performance | ||
| Firewall Throughput | 30,000 Mbps | 20,000 Mbps |
| NGFW | 5,200 Mbps | 1,600 Mbps |
| Threat Protection | 1,250 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| TLS inspection | 1,100 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| IPS | 6,000 Mbps | 2,600 Mbps |
| Latency (64B UDP) | 6 micro secs | 4.9 micro secs |
| Interfaces and Modules | ||
| Fixed | ||
| GE copper (ports) | 8 | 12 |
| SFP slots * | 2 | 4 |
| 10 GE SPF+ slots * | optional Flexi port module 4port-10GE SFP | 2 |
| GE RJ45 shared media ports | n/a | 4 |
| GE Management port RJ45 | 1 | 2 |
| GE HA port RJ45 | n/a | 2 |
| Comm port RJ45 | 1 | 1 |
| Other Ports | ||
| USB 3.0 | 2 (front) | n/a |
| USB 2.0 | 1 (rear) | 1 (front) |
| Flexi port Modules | 7 optional | n/a |
| GE RJ45 copper (ports) | 8 | n/a |
| GE SFP fiber (ports) | 8 | n/a |
| 10 GE SFP (ports) * | 4 | n/a |
| GE copper by-pass (2-pairs) | 4 | n/a |
| GE copper PoE | 4 | n/a |
| 2.5 GE copper PoE | 4 | n/a |
| GbE Fiber (LC) by-pass SFP * | 4 | 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!