Fortinet has signed up with four new service providers – including Commandlink, DNA, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Syringa Networks – which have deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions to deliver new value-added services to their customers
Fortinet, one of world’s leading network security solution providers to enterprises & organizations, has signed up with four new service providers – including Commandlink, DNA, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Syringa Networks – which have deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions to deliver new value-added services to their customers. With the addition of these partners, Fortinet’s portfolio of existing service providers (SPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) have expanded substantially.
Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC, Fortinet, said, “Our partnerships with global service providers complement Fortinet’s commitment to providing the most secure and holistic approach to SD-WAN. With these partnerships, Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution will be extended geographically around the world as they (service providers) are able to grow their business and revenue margins with the creation of managed SD-WAN and security services powered by one single solution”.
Larry Price, VP Marketing & Sales, Syringa Networks, said, “Partnering with Fortinet gives our customers yet another custom SD-WAN offering. By combining our portfolio of global managed services such as Voice, Internet, Redundant Connectivity, and IT Security with Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN, we offer a fully integrated solution to our expansive network of customers. Together, we are able to help our customers achieve their business goals while providing unparalleled customer service”.
Antonio Morabito, Head of Marketing, Enterprise Market at TIM, viewed, “TIM Group looks to the future of networking by investing in new technologies and services. We believe that Cloud, IoT and hybrid working brought corporate networking at the edge of a huge transformation opportunity, where the role of connectivity is crucial to guarantee application performances, security and agility by SDN paradigm. Our SD-WAN offering portfolio, now enriched with Fortinet solutions, provides administrators with greater visibility into network performance in order to detect risks in real-time, as well as the flexibility and the security needed to connect users to business applications”.
Mason Miles, SVP Sales for CommandLink, opined, “CommandLink is proud to design, deploy, and support Fortinet Secure SD WAN solutions for multi-location clients and our team has had over a decade of experience in leveraging Fortinet for active/active secure network designs long before SD WAN was an industry buzzword. Our Engineering Team has the highest level of trust and confidence in Fortinet’s ability to enhance our customers’ security fabric while ensuring maximum application performance and extending a 100% network uptime SLA for every location”.
India Sify Technologies is also one of many service providers that have deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution. “Sify Technologies has a long relationship with Fortinet to offer managed security services. We introduced turnkey SD-WAN solutions as a service for customers who seek faster connectivity, as digital transformation and cloud adoption demands accelerate. When choosing an SD-WAN solution for our customers, we consider a variety of factors, ranging from built-in security features to cost-effectiveness to easy integration into the MSP environment. Towards that end, Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN is a good solution for our customers”, said Harsha Ram, Network Business, Sify Technologies.
Attributes of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- Accelerated Network and Security Convergence: Fortinet’s unique security-driven networking approach provides the most comprehensive Secure SD-WAN solution that address various use cases from WAN Edge to the Cloud Edge. Fortinet has emerged as a leader in SD-WAN with organically developed routing, SD-WAN, and security powered by one OS. This unique capability enables the accelerated convergence of network and security powered by the industry only purpose-built SD-WAN ASIC, while enabling consistent security posture across all edges, as well as a simplified architecture and future-proof transition to SASE and SD-Branch.
- Ability to DeliverValue-Added Services Beyond Connectivity: Providers require services that are quickly and easily deployedand scale easily to large customer bases to drive business agility. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN provides a platform for SPs and MSSPs to deliver added value continuously with managed SD-WAN and security services.Service Providers have been leveraging extensively Fortinet’s centralized management to deliver managed SD-WAN, SD-Branch and security services.
- Flexible Consumption: MSPs and MSSPs have a broad spectrum of customers with different needs and of different sizes, requiring flexible offerings. Fortinet’s SD-WAN solution can be consumed in different form factors,including physical appliances powered by Fortinet’s purpose-built ASIC with many variants from built-LTE, built-in wireless, built-in POE or virtual form factor. Fortinet’s solution is alsoavailable in all major public cloud offerings with BYOL or PAYG options.
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