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"To provide some background as why people are asking about the change from pfsense - pfsense is not a product but really a packaged collection of opensource applications and unix tools/features (a rough summary don't shoot me).So come may consider it important as a large proportion of free, home user and SME firewalls and network appliances are built from the same core components. So one recommendation would be to go for a pridcut from a vendor that actually creates their product such as sophos or sonicwall, unifi etc.Then if the reasons are stability, bugs etc you may also wish to avoid vendors with similar issues such as unifi and also new products with no history to examine. note ubiquiti edgerouter is not from the unifi product range).If you want separate router and firewall - then i recommend edgerouter or mikrotik for the router. For firewall I would only recommend a full UTM/NG product as a basic firewall is not really worth having on it's own (the router could do that) so I would recommend a sophos. Switch I like an enterprise switch to be able to do advanced features so I would buy Cisco but you can do alot with an edge switch or mikrotik switch.As a final suggestion I would say do you need a 'router' or just a device that connects to the ISP for simple internet access - if so this can often be achieved on the firewall device with a just a modem. If you have routing on the firewall and router it does complicate things."
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