Evaluating SD-WAN solutions

When evaluating SD-WAN solutions, you need to consider things like zero-touch deployment that make it easy to set up and monitor physical and logical network topologies, link utilization, and network and application behavior. You should also be able to easily update and disseminate corporate WAN and security policies to all locations, as well as isolate and reconfigure individual devices for either performance or security issues. Having centralized management, configuration, and monitoring tools for both WAN and security solutions built directly into your SD-WAN environment will increase management efficiency and effectiveness while significantly reducing the cost of deploying and managing such a solution.

SD-WAN solutions are proven to improve network performance and user experience across a distributed network while keeping costs in check. But failure to deploy a solution that does not include fully integrated security leaves your network exposed to unnecessary risk. Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN solution is the market’s first offering to provide a complete and fully integrated security and SD-WAN strategy.

Based on the industry-leading FortiGate NGFW, and built around the new FortiOS 6.0 operating system, Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN replaces separate WAN routers, WAN optimization, and security devices with a single solution that is application-aware, offers automatic multi-pathing and multi-broadband support, and is easy to deploy and monitor. It also incorporates a growing application control database with the signatures of more than 3,000 applications, and that database is constantly being updated through its live link with FortiGuard Threat Intelligence.

Fortinet is also the only SD-WAN vendor with an NSS Labs NGFW “Recommended” designation. Our security-first SD-WAN solution delivers the most robust threat protection in the industry across Layers 3 through 7, and delivers enhanced SD-WAN performance by leveraging our proprietary Security Processing Unit silicon to accelerate security and networking-specific tasks. This optimized architecture delivers deep security analysis and inspection capabilities provided by the general-purpose CPUs that power competing products.

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