Watchguard Firebox Question

kesanmits48

Good morning. I am a network consultant who mainly works with Juniper equipment and firewalls. But I have one client who has a small office who uses A little T10 unit. Since it was installed a few years ago, their offic showbox e has grown from about four people to ten or so. Plus they are wanting to add a number of people working from home to RDP to their desktop systems. Would you think a T35 unit would cover them pretty well for the next few years? I noticed it says it can handle 25 mobile VPN connections (SSL & IPSec). Are those all included with the T35 or are extra licenses needed to support remote VPN users?

Bruce_Briggs

The T35 went End of Sale last Dec.
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-resource-center/end-of-life-policy

Look at the T40:
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-products/appliances-compare?pid1=17846&pid2=42056&pid3=0

The VPN licenses are included for the firewall and are concuurent for all VPN types maxing at the total licensed for a specific firewall model.

AdditionaI client VPN options also include IKRv2 & L2TP.

The only cost client license is an IPSec one from NCP which is also remarketed by WG. There is an older free one from Shrew - while that does work on Windows 10, it has not been updated in years.

greggmh123

Take advantage of their usual "Red for red" trade-up program to save money on moving from the T10 to a T40.

Bruce_Briggs

The Red for Red offer that I see ended on June 30.
There is a Trade-up program, but for a T10, the trade up option included is only to a T20.
https://p.widencdn.net/sijswa/Trade_Up_Program_Overview

Active promotion programs are listed here:
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-resource-center/promotions

Here is a comparison of a T10, T20 & T40
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-products/appliances-compare?pid1=216&pid2=42051&pid3=42056

greggmh123

"the trade up option included is only to a T20."

BUMMER!

Maybe kesanmits48 has a dead competitive product lying around that can be used for a competitive upgrade instead of Red for red.

Bruce_Briggs

Always possible to ask a reseller what discounts are available

james.carson

The sales team and/or your reseller can usually offer trade-ups to larger models. The ones built into the activation system are just recommended same/similar ones.

Our sales department contact form (phone number, online contact) is here:
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-sales/emailus
They can help you directly if you're a reseller, or get you pointed in the right direction to a reseller local to you that can help.