Sr. Technical Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
MSP
Top 20
Mar 5, 2020
Our primary use is for official purposes. On our campus, there are two employees who have a laptop and move here and there, and sub-faculties are always trying to connect to Google or other resources, for any documentation purposes. The facility is huge. So for online purposes, we give them the flexibility so that wherever they are on campus they can easily connect to the internet.
IT and IT Security Consulting at MacTaggart IT Security
Real User
Jan 27, 2020
I have a friend who used to work at Sun Microsystems and when they were bought by Oracle he moved to Fortinet Switzerland. Now he is the boss of the wireless section of Fortinet Switzerland. We are building an apartment building with 30 floors that is the tallest residential building in the country. The name is Jabee Tower in Dübendorf. We have two penthouse flats there and each flat has 14 wireless access points. That is more access points than you could have with any other normal wifi system; you can not buy this kind of access capability through another vendor. We have committed to the technology and now we are dependent on the Fortinet controller and the V2 cell technology which is exclusive to Fortinet. Fortinet obtained this by buying out a company called Meru Systems which is the inventor of the concept of V2 cell. The product allows their product to always maintain the same SSID (Service Set Identifier) for the BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) clients using the service. It is a kind of breakthrough in technology. So it is really unique and there is no competition for this type of solution at the moment. That is why Fortinet is the leading manufacturer in this area of cell technology. The leading-edge technology was the reason I came to use Fortinet — not only because my friend was working there. But because their technology is very much on the leading edge of the marketplace we have a lot of interesting opportunities.
Senior Technical Support Executive with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Jan 22, 2020
We are a technical services company and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients. My client was interested in adding a guest network to the existing infrastructure. The main requirement was that the new access points needed to be able to integrate properly, but any guests should not be able to connect to his main network. It was a very old network with no VLAN and there was no interest in implementing one. This solution allowed for the creation of different networks without the need for a VLAN or the installation of layer two switches.
Security Pre-Sales Engineer - Southern Reigion at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 9, 2018
I've been doing pre-sales engineering for most Fortinet products. Wireless is one of our main products, where there's a good market. I have been involved in a few of the implementations including the designing. One was a warehouse and there was another one where we helped design a wireless network for a public youth center. The youth center was a fairly big building. There was the basketball court and they had the library, etc. I designed the network around that. There was another where we did the design for a retail shop. For them, the requirement was high-performance WiFi because there were going to be a lot of customers in the retail shop. They needed a very strong WiFi without having any network drops.
Network Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 11, 2018
We were looking to upgrade to the latest standard and increase speed. The reason we went with Fortinet is the whole system Fabric, with the FortiGate and Fortinet Wireless product.
We are an internet and telecom service provider, so we are not the final customer. We provide secure wireless LAN solutions to our customers, and for internal services as well.
Fortinet FortiWLM delivers a secure, scalable network management platform that integrates seamlessly with FortiGate, providing centralized control and robust features such as guest network creation and V2R cell services.Fortinet FortiWLM offers a comprehensive wireless network management solution with centralized oversight. Its architecture supports seamless FortiGate integration, enhancing security and management. Users benefit from creating guest networks without VLANs and managing network...
Our primary use is for official purposes. On our campus, there are two employees who have a laptop and move here and there, and sub-faculties are always trying to connect to Google or other resources, for any documentation purposes. The facility is huge. So for online purposes, we give them the flexibility so that wherever they are on campus they can easily connect to the internet.
I have a friend who used to work at Sun Microsystems and when they were bought by Oracle he moved to Fortinet Switzerland. Now he is the boss of the wireless section of Fortinet Switzerland. We are building an apartment building with 30 floors that is the tallest residential building in the country. The name is Jabee Tower in Dübendorf. We have two penthouse flats there and each flat has 14 wireless access points. That is more access points than you could have with any other normal wifi system; you can not buy this kind of access capability through another vendor. We have committed to the technology and now we are dependent on the Fortinet controller and the V2 cell technology which is exclusive to Fortinet. Fortinet obtained this by buying out a company called Meru Systems which is the inventor of the concept of V2 cell. The product allows their product to always maintain the same SSID (Service Set Identifier) for the BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) clients using the service. It is a kind of breakthrough in technology. So it is really unique and there is no competition for this type of solution at the moment. That is why Fortinet is the leading manufacturer in this area of cell technology. The leading-edge technology was the reason I came to use Fortinet — not only because my friend was working there. But because their technology is very much on the leading edge of the marketplace we have a lot of interesting opportunities.
We are a technical services company and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients. My client was interested in adding a guest network to the existing infrastructure. The main requirement was that the new access points needed to be able to integrate properly, but any guests should not be able to connect to his main network. It was a very old network with no VLAN and there was no interest in implementing one. This solution allowed for the creation of different networks without the need for a VLAN or the installation of layer two switches.
We started the utilization in our warehouse to improve the connection for our hand scanner and cameras.
I've been doing pre-sales engineering for most Fortinet products. Wireless is one of our main products, where there's a good market. I have been involved in a few of the implementations including the designing. One was a warehouse and there was another one where we helped design a wireless network for a public youth center. The youth center was a fairly big building. There was the basketball court and they had the library, etc. I designed the network around that. There was another where we did the design for a retail shop. For them, the requirement was high-performance WiFi because there were going to be a lot of customers in the retail shop. They needed a very strong WiFi without having any network drops.
We were looking to upgrade to the latest standard and increase speed. The reason we went with Fortinet is the whole system Fabric, with the FortiGate and Fortinet Wireless product.
We are an internet and telecom service provider, so we are not the final customer. We provide secure wireless LAN solutions to our customers, and for internal services as well.
We use it for a very large K-12 environment servicing 80,000 concurrent users.
We use it for wireless at our remote locations.