Fortinet’s Secure Connectivity solutions help infrastructure VPs tackle the growing challenges in network security and management.
This offering includes several products: FortiSwitch Ethernet switches, FortiAP Wi-Fi Access Points, FortiExtender 5G/LTE WAN Gateways, FortiNAC Network Access Control, and the FortiAIOps AI/ML tool for network operations. This suite of solutions aims to make managing networks easier while boosting security.
For Fortinet channel partners, Secure Connectivity Ethernet and Wi-Fi offerings provide a highly differentiated networking solution – recognized by leading analysts including Gartner. It also provides an opportunity to capture 2x to even 3x customer revenue when compared with a typical Fortinet engagement, as well as engage with not just security – but also a customer’s networking deployment. It may provide for additional Fortinet fabric expansion, still, in the future.
Even better, the solutions are suitable for organizations of all sizes.
Fortinet has been on a roll, having unveiled a number of significant new upgrades and products during its recent Accelerate 2024 conference.
The unified approach to Secure Connectivity tackles head-on a key challenge for solution providers: inherent insecurity in Ethernet and Wi-Fi networks that are designed to allow for connections rather than preventing them. The company’s Secure Connectivity switches and Access Points (APs) provide that security by leveraging FortiGate as a network controller and management platform.
This approach converges local area networking and security similar to the way SD-WAN is converged with security to create Secure SD-WAN, same console, same configuration easy to deploy and easy to manage.
It’s a platform approach and, as a result, enables the functions and management to gain efficiencies.
This year Fortinet has placed in the leadership quadrant in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure – rarified air that is reflective of its investment and expertise in this sector.