GigaNetworks firewall solutions are focused on an industry leader and a strong upstart. Juniper Networks firewalls came from an organization called NetScreen. Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall was founded by an early Check Point engineer who was also the CTO for Juniper Networks. He brought a new vision to this legacy technology..

Juniper Networks’ firewall solution extends to 100s of gigabits of performance and handles the needs of very large organizations. Commonly used in service provider networks, Juniper has a proven track record, a very well established support organization and a flexible and focused sales team.

Palo Alto Networks firewalls are the newcomer. They have very unique ability to expand firewall technology to the next level. Items like integrated IDS/IPS, user identification, SSL/VPN, virtual firewalls, application identification, SSL forward proxy interception and a lot more. This all-in-one device is favored by smaller organizations that require focused administration for all edge capabilities, one UI to learn, and one support team to call – all with a value-based pricing model.