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Fortinet FortiWLM pros and cons

Vendor: Fortinet
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Fortinet FortiWLM offers seamless roaming by leveraging Virtual Cell, reducing roam times and issues related to roaming.
Fortinet security architecture is highly praised for involving firewalls, wireless LANs, and users, ensuring comprehensive security.
Fortinet FortiWLM's integration with FortiGate firewall enhances security visibility and management across different Fortinet products.
Ease of setup and deployment is a significant advantage, allowing for quick implementation and configuration.
Fortinet FortiWLM provides robust asset tracking, monitoring, and overall management capabilities for efficient network handling.

CONS

Licensing is below average and requires an all-encompassing enterprise license for comprehensive coverage.
Reporting capabilities are lacking without FortiAnalyzer, and enhanced built-in reporting is suggested.
Technical support is unsatisfactory with no direct contact for troubleshooting.
Setup and configuration are complex and need simplification for easier deployment in production environments.
Pricing is higher than desired; a 20% reduction is recommended for better market competitiveness.
 

Fortinet FortiWLM Pros review quotes

SrDirect357a - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director, IT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 15, 2018
We're using SD-WAN at all of our locations now, which helps increase and aggregate and lower response time and improve application performance.
SnrNetEng237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
Aug 16, 2018
Seamless roaming by leveraging Virtual Cell is a major advantage which reduces roam times and issues related to roaming. Code stability has been excellent and the hardware quality is second to none.
Nov 6, 2018
Security is the feature we like most from Fortinet. In general, their security architecture is really great, because it involves everything: firewalls, wireless LANs, the user. Everything is really secure.
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RW
Network Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 11, 2018
Having the single pane of glass, by using the Fortinet Security Fabric, allows us to tighten security, and more easily and quickly create additional VLANs to help protect data. Rules in the firewall mean we can protect data and systems so that, should anything go wrong, any security issue is held to an individual device.
PS
Security Pre-Sales Engineer - Southern Reigion at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 9, 2018
With Fortinet, there is a feature called Network-In-Control. It's the AP controller that decides what the clients are going to connect to... Even though your phone sees, let's say, two APs, since the wireless controller has visibility into and access across all the APs, it knows the best AP for the client to connect to. This way, the controller makes sure that none of the APs is over-crowded, and the spectrum is used properly.
EG
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Tilibra
Oct 21, 2019
The firewall integration is very important for the security of the connection.
PP
Senior Technical Support Executive with 11-50 employees
Jan 22, 2020
The most valuable feature is the ability to connect and broadcast to different networks without using a VLAN or a layer two switch, which allows you to easily create guest networks.
PM
IT and IT Security Consulting at MacTaggart IT Security
Jan 27, 2020
This is the only product on the market currently that supports as many access points for wifi users.
DK
Service Delivery Manager at ZAVASI TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
Mar 4, 2020
I found that It's really good when comparing it to any other product or it is much better in terms of features that the customer requires.
SS
Sr. Technical Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Mar 5, 2020
The product is a stable solution.
 

Fortinet FortiWLM Cons review quotes

SrDirect357a - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director, IT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 15, 2018
Licensing is the only area that I think they are below average. They need enterprise licensing, an all-encompassing license to cover all products for a company.
SnrNetEng237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
Aug 16, 2018
There is very little publicly available information about Virtual Cell and Single Channel Architecture. Promotion of the overall technology is limited as well. Being more vocal about a product that has many advantages would go a long way to eliminating a lot of the confusion and negative perception about Virtual Cell and Single Channel Architecture.
Nov 6, 2018
Sometimes we feel that we are buying the top-of-the-line technology and, six months or eight months later, we feel it is already obsolete.
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RW
Network Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 11, 2018
There is one thing that I find extremely strange, and this something that is unique to Fortinet, and it isn't a positive at all.
PS
Security Pre-Sales Engineer - Southern Reigion at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 9, 2018
One of the main features that I see as lacking in any of the Fortinet products is the reporting. If you want to have proper, end-to-end reporting, you must purchase the FortiAnalyzer... If Fortinet could offer some better, built-in reporting, that would be a point of improvement.
EG
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Tilibra
Oct 21, 2019
This solution should be easier to set up in a production environment.
PP
Senior Technical Support Executive with 11-50 employees
Jan 22, 2020
The guest management features need to be improved by adding automation.
PM
IT and IT Security Consulting at MacTaggart IT Security
Jan 27, 2020
The pricing model can be improved to encourage use by small business and individuals and the hardware could stand to be redesigned.
DK
Service Delivery Manager at ZAVASI TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
Mar 4, 2020
Documentation could be improved.
SS
Sr. Technical Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Mar 5, 2020
Technical support is very poor. We are not satisfied with the technical support because there is not any direct person from Fortinet for any troubleshooting, which we expected.