Pick AirGapNet
Pick AirGapNet for the one or two service paths you want physically gone between maintenance windows.
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AirGapNet vs Cisco / Fortinet — hardware break vs software gate.
Cisco and Fortinet enforce isolation in software — a misconfigured rule, a stale credential, or an unpatched bug can leave a path that policy says is closed. AirGapNet enforces it at the cable.
Side by side
The feature matrix, without the marketing fog.
Feature
AirGapNet
US (HQ Austria) · $1,199 single unit
Cisco / Fortinet
US · $5K–$30K+ per appliance
Physical network break
Yes
No
Remote control (SMS / app)
Yes
Yes
Independent control channel (GSM)
Yes
No
Scheduled access windows
Yes
Yes
Tamper-resistant audit log
Yes
Yes
Default-closed posture
Yes
Partial
Single-line price
$1,199
$5K–$30K+
Setup time
Under 1 hour
Weeks (integration)
US shipping
Yes
Yes
Designed for SMB / single-site
Yes
No
Values reflect the latest publicly available information from each vendor's website and product datasheets. Where a vendor does not publish pricing or a specific feature fact, the cell is marked "—". Last reviewed May 2026.
Honest read
Three things to know before you pick.
01
Cisco / Fortinet are the right answer when you need software-defined segmentation across hundreds of zones, deep traffic inspection, and integration with an existing security stack.
02
What they cannot do is remove a path from the network when it is not in use. They can deny it, log it, alert on it — but the cable is still there.
03
AirGapNet sits in front of a Cisco/Fortinet stack, not in place of it. Use them to govern the policy, use AirGapNet to remove the route when policy says nothing should reach the system.
Pick which
When to pick which.
Pick Cisco / Fortinet
Pick Cisco / Fortinet for software-defined segmentation across an enterprise OT or campus network.
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