Fortinet once again ranked as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the third consecutive year

Fortinet recently announced that it has been named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the third consecutive year.

This honor is due to the strength of Fortinet's wired and wireless LAN product portfolio, including FortiSwitch and FortiAP, as well as a series of powerful functional advantages such as real-time network risk visibility driven by advanced automation technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), security without additional licensing costs, and a security platform that seamlessly integrates real-time threat intelligence. It fully meets users' evolving security needs and accelerates the digital transformation of enterprises.

Fortinet's wired and wireless LAN product portfolio is strongly supported by a security-driven networking architecture, which seamlessly integrates wired and wireless network functions into the FortiGate next-generation firewall, helping users to closely integrate network infrastructure and security architecture, quickly deliver new digital innovations, and be fearless of various network security risks. In addition, the seamless integration of Fortinet's wired and wireless LAN product portfolio with the FortiAIOps solution supports the delivery of AI-driven consistent performance insights across LANs, wireless LANs, and WANs, enabling the network operations center (NOC) team to enjoy real-time visibility of potential security risks while ensuring a smooth and efficient network user experience.

Fortinet builds feature-rich wired and wireless LAN solutions for users

As the only provider of advanced wired and wireless LAN solutions that fully integrate networking and security, Fortinet empowers users with the following powerful advantages:

l FortiGate-centric advanced features for wired and wireless LANs without the need to pay high additional licensing fees. Abandoning the previous bundled purchase model of independent wireless LAN controllers and short-term licenses, Fortinet wired and wireless LAN management or NAC (network access control) functions can be enabled without paying additional licensing fees. Fortinet natively integrates switches and wireless LAN controllers into the FortiGate platform, eliminating the need to build an overlay architecture, helping users significantly reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and operating costs.

l With a single management platform, you can easily simplify the operation and maintenance of LAN and network security. As the networking architecture becomes increasingly complex, Fortinet wired and wireless LAN solutions support comprehensive converged network and security management, simplify daily network operation and maintenance, shorten IT deployment cycles, reduce the number of task switching, and help administrators easily manage network security, LAN, wireless network, SD-WAN and 5G/LTE gateway components.

l Supports the industry's best performing network security grid platform

The FortiOS single operating system provides strong support for the above innovative features, helping users to unify the deployment, management and operation of security and LAN. This tight integration supported by Fortinet's dedicated operating system allows users to collect consistent threat intelligence across the entire network and centrally correlate and analyze it through AI/ML engines.

Fortinet has always focused on the continuous innovation and development of wired and wireless solutions, creating better advanced network and security solutions for today's high-speed enterprise development, and delivering continuous and consistent availability and security to users with the ever-expanding hybrid network architecture.

“Today, wired and wireless LAN networks are inseparable from security. As the only company in the industry that can provide secure wired and wireless LAN solutions, Fortinet has always been at the forefront of innovation in the convergence of networking and security,” said John Maddison, Executive Vice President of Products and Chief Marketing Officer at Fortinet. “We believe that Fortinet’s positioning as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for three consecutive years fully confirms the unique advantage of Fortinet solutions in achieving the full convergence of wired, wireless LAN and security.”