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Dell SonicWall NSA 3600 - Should I install or upgrade Cisco ASA 5520

Hi Experts,

I have a really sophisticated two site network which supports load balanced web servers, DNS servers and streaming media.  We have voip phones and loads of other services.  A real genius built the original system with Cisco ASA 5520 devices at two sites running site to site VPN and others.   They continue to behave perfectly, but I am concerned that they don't provide new gen security.

I have purchased Dell SonicWall NSA 3600 devices but am not having a good time getting them installed.  Not a good experience with SonicWall professional services!  Should I stick with the pain and make them work or give up and choose an upgraded to the Cisco ASA 5525-X or something else instead?  What is the best technical solution?

Many thanks in advance

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Thank you all for your very helpful comments.  

I have been very happily running my ASAs but am now becoming concerned about the new level of attacks that we all face.  I am trying to protect against packet level and sql insertion attacks against web servers.  Have any of you seen these sort of attacks and experience of how the Cisco FirePower compares to the SonicWall.

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yep, boat anchors.

there's no learning new technology here.  they're still using SCSI (not SAS)
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