We deploy SonicWALL TZ300 or SOHO using Dell's Security as a Service. That way our monthly cost per customer is under $50 and includes all security services plus GMS centralized management. Works great with our VOIP service. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: ray@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ken Chase Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 1:54 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application Looking around at different SMB firewalls to standardize on so we can start training up our level 2/3 techs instead of dealing with a mess of different vendors at cust premises. I've run into a few firewalls that were not sip or 323 friendly however, wondering what your experiences are. Need something cheap enough (certainly <$1k, <$500-750 better) that we are comfortable telling endpoints to toss current gear/buy additional gear. Basic firewalling of course is covered, but also need port range forwarding (not available until later ASA versions for eg was an issue), QoS (port/flow based as well as possibly actually talking some real QoS protocols) and VPN capabilities (not sure if many do without #seats licensing schemes which get irritating to clients). We'd like a bit of diagnostic capability (say tcpdump or the like, via shell preferred) - I realize a PFsense unit would be great, but might not have enough brand name recognition to make the master client happy plopping down as a CPE at end client sites. (I know, "there's only one brand, Cisco." ASA5506x is a bit $$ and licensing acrobatics get irritating for end customers.) /kc -- Ken Chase - Guelph Canada