Looking for a SonicWall TZ215 Firewall?

04 June 2021

You're about 6 years too late! Or are you looking for its replacement model, the SonicWall Soho? Unfortunately, the last time you could order this appliance was in January 2020. This was then replaced with the SonicWall Soho 250. And although this is still available, yes, you’ve guessed it, another performance improvement has been achieved with the newly arrived TZ270.

TZ270 and TZ270W

Welcome to 2021, the SonicWall TZ270.

The SonicWall TZ270 is the perfect firewall for the home or micro-office. It’s a very affordable product with a throughput that is sufficient for even the most bandwidth-hungry needs. Package it with a full services suite (Essential or Advanced Protection Service Suite) and you have enterprise-level features. The same technology that goes into SonicWall's Supermassive series goes into the robust TZ270 device. 

It's not just performance that has improved. With Capture ATP, the TZ270 connects to the SonicWall network enabling it to deal with zero-day threats. Anything that cannot be unidentified by the TZ270 is sent to SonicWall for immediate analysis. 

Additionally, most modern-day web threats are deployed over SSL, which the TZ215 (and any firewall from that era) cannot defend. The TZ270 has DPISSL, which ensures that the data transferred to and from these websites can be decrypted and examined.

Selected improvements:

  TZ215 (Retired 2016) TZ270
IPS Throughput: 110 Mbps 750 Mbps
Firewall Throughput: 500 Mbps 2 Gbps
VPN Throughput 130 Mbps 750 Mbps
Site-to-site VPN tunnels 15 50
Capture ATP No Yes
Maximum connections (DPI) 32000 150000
DPI SSL NO YES
CATP NO YES
High availability NO YES

So, if your organisation has expanded its home-working capacity, the TZ270 is the perfect entry-level firewall.

 

SonicWall's Entry Level Firewall: A brief timeline
Device Last Purchase Date
TZ210 31/05/2012
TZ100 16/11/2012
TZ200 14/01/2013
TZ205 30/06/2015
TZ105 28/07/2015
TZ215 31/07/2015
Soho 22/01/2020
Upgrading from a TZ215?

Or a TZ205, or a TZ200 - you get the idea!