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If I get a XG135 do I still need a ES150 and "Email Protection Advanced"?

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Hello,

Our small company needs to replace our current security hardware and asked a company to provide us a quotation.  The quotation received was for 1unit of XG135 with 3 years Total Protect, 1unit of ES150, 20units of Sophos Email Protect Advanced (3-year license).

I'm very new to Sophos hardware and I'm still trying to learn, but doesn't the XG135 with total protect already have Email protection?

Also, does anyone have experience using the VPN feature to get through the "Great Firewall of China"? I occasionally need to travel there and I find the inability to access Google/Google Maps to be quite annoying.  Once I'm connected via VPN (If I manage to connect) all my browsing, email etc. is done via a tunnel through the VPN right?

Thanks,



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    KNS,

    Sophos Email appliances provides more features than XG, because an email appliance is built to provide all the feature that an Email Anti-Spam appliance must include.

    So I strongly advice you to test an XG into a test environment before proceding with the purchase.

    Of course the best way to connect back to your workplace is to use a VPN.

    Total Protect includes an HW unit and all features enabled.

    Regards

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    KNS,

    Sophos Email appliances provides more features than XG, because an email appliance is built to provide all the feature that an Email Anti-Spam appliance must include.

    So I strongly advice you to test an XG into a test environment before proceding with the purchase.

    Of course the best way to connect back to your workplace is to use a VPN.

    Total Protect includes an HW unit and all features enabled.

    Regards

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    Thanks iferrara for your reply.

    Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place but when I tried to read the descriptions to understand what additional features the ES has, the one thing that stood out was the number of messages it could process.  The lowest model was probably 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more than what our small office would require.

    I guess to re-word my question it would be something like:

    1. Does XG-135 Provide Spam-Filtering, Virus Scanning, Data Loss Prevention, Email Encryption?

    2. Besides being an appliance dedicating all it's processing power to the task of email, and thus having much higher throughput, what does the ES150 do that the XG135 cannot?

    3. And the "Email Protection Advance" - that is a feature you add on to the ES150 right?  So it should be one license for our office and not 20?

    Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide.