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SonicWall Gen 7 vs Gen 8: Why Firewall Generation Is Not a Sizing Metric

A newer firewall is not automatically the right firewall.

SonicWall's Gen 8 TZ family increases security-processing capacity compared with several Gen 7 counterparts, but hardware generation is only one input into a sizing decision.

Engineers should also evaluate:

threat prevention throughput;
encrypted traffic;
IPS workload;
VPN;
concurrent connections;
WAN capacity;
branch topology;
application profile;
growth.

For example, the published threat-prevention figures move from 750 Mbps on TZ270 to 1 Gbps on TZ280, and from 1 Gbps on TZ370 to 1.5 Gbps on TZ380.

That extra capacity can matter, but only if the workload requires it.

The general lesson:

Don't size by model number. Size by workload.

Spanish business-side guide:

https://sistro.net/sonicwall-tz-para-pymes-gen7-vs-gen8

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