{"id":22350,"date":"2018-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/kb\/what-is-the-difference-between-an-sg-and-xg-firewall\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T19:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:42:52","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-an-sg-and-xg-firewall","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/kb\/what-is-the-difference-between-an-sg-and-xg-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between an SG and XG firewall?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When buying a Sophos firewall, sooner or later you will ask yourself what the difference is between an SG and an XG firewall.<\/p>\n\n<p>With the SG or XG firewall, the difference lies solely in the pre-installed operating system. While the SG comes with the UTM operating system, the XG Firewall is equipped with the new Sophos Firewall OS (SFOS).<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-leistung-und-design\">Performance and design<\/h2>\n\n<p>Visually, the differences between the two hardware variants are limited. Only the small desktop series, with the models XG 86\/106\/115\/125\/135, come with a rounded design. The SG series in this segment again in the usual angular format. However, the hardware in both series is the same.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you are looking for a new firewall, we would definitely advise you to get an XG firewall. The future of Sophos is clearly on Sophos Firewall OS and Synchronized Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","kb_kategorie":[382],"class_list":["post-22350","kb","type-kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","kb_kategorie-sophos-firewall"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_kategorie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_kategorie?post=22350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}