[j-nsp] SRX vs Checkpoint (4800)

[Mike Devlin]

can you elaborate on your "no comparison" comment?


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Jerry Jones <jjones at danrj.com> wrote:

> No comparison with checkpoint.
>
> But Space is a framework. Yes you can purchase an appliance to run it on
> or just download the vm. In fact you can download the vm and play with for
> 30 days free.
>
> To manage SRX you would use Security Director, a component of Space. You
> can download and try it also, but first must have a valid registered Space.
>
> Security Director itself has come a long way in the last year. We have
> deployed it to manage a large national customer with many chain locations
> and it is working well. Note we sell Juniper so…
>
> They have improved the GUI on SRX and added wizards to help make life
> nice, but it still is a long way from the cli.
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+junipernsp at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a customer where we have been slowly deploying Juniper (instead of
> Cisco) for their routing and switching, and that has been going well.
>
> But the other day they asked me about replacing their Checkpoint 4800's
> with Juniper SRX.  For their needs, I am thinking of a pair of SRX550's.
> But, I would like to justify my advice...  Does anyone have any
> comparisons, etc... for Checkpoint 4800's (or that family) against SRX's?
>
> Also, rather than just touching command-line to create/change rules...  is
> there any GUI management tool for SRX firewall rules? I've heard of Space,
> but the Juniper website only really talks about it in 'concept' and I can't
> even tell if its a physical, virtual or app platform, and what it would
> look like.
>
> I've also heard of JACL - a non-supported migration/management tool, but it
> seems to have disappeared from the net.
>
> Any advice is welcome thanks guys.
>
> ...Skeeve
>
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