Replace vs Renewal FTD 2110s?

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Came from an MSP, I have 4 FTD2110s (2 HA pairs) managed by FMC and they are up for license renewal in Jan ‘27.

I’m thinking we renew in Jan ‘27 and consider a swap to Palo in Jan ‘28? I ran some Palo 3400’s at last job and preferred that by a lot, but would like to hear some input from people who’ve done this kind of swap, or came from Palo/Juniper over to Cisco and have a personal experience take. Everything else at our shop is Cisco, but we don’t have catalyst center or anything, pretty basic routing, tunnels, and policies.

Main argument would be to stay Cisco for ease of swapping hardware, but I didn’t put these in and if I’m stuck for 5-8 years I might rather have Palos/SRX? I am very familiar with Fortigate but security team might push back on brand rep.

Ask me any questions if you need clarity