[VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router Recommendations

[J. Oquendo]

On 3/2/2012 10:59 AM, Mark Wiles wrote:
> We have a lot of our customers installing the Cisco RV 120W, and have had
> great luck with it.
> It does have SIP ALG turned on by default, but it's an easy "click" to
> disable it.
> The router supports QOS, they're easy to find (Office Depot, for example),
> and they're not bad price-wise for what you get.
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
> On Behalf Of Justin B Newman
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:44 AM
> To: voiceops at voiceops.org
> Subject: [VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router Recommendations
>
> I am in the position of needing to recommend a line of SMB (10-50 person
> offices) router/firewall devices that will play nice with VoIP.
> Specifically, office has phones (generally Cisco SPA's) connecting to remove
> service provider Asterisk servers. Historically, I've stayed out of the
> hardware on the customer side, but the growing presence of "stuff that
> breaks SIP" is leading me to pick a vendor. I generally am in the "don't
> touch my signalling" camp (read: no ALG). Is there a single vendor that is
> consistently good about not mucking with things too much?
>

I have a bunch of SSGs in all sizes deployed at various locations and 
have never had any issues with them at all. They're affordable, 
straightforward to manage and maintain. I have had issues with ASAs, 
Sonicwalls are outright horrible, Watchguard horrid.

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