The Fortinet vision is to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. They provide top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperative fabric.
Top-Rated, Faster Network Security
FortiAP™ Universal Access Point Series
Fortinet’s FortiAP-U Series offers a wide range of Access Points capable of being managed by any of Fortinet’s controller and management options: Cloud, FortiOS, or WLAN Controller. Perfect from everything from a large campus to hundreds of branch locations. Access Points are available across the performance spectrum up to the fastest Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4 devices
Fortinet has completed release of our first APs to feature the new 802.11ax standard known as Wi-Fi 6: the FortiAP-U431F and the FortiAP-U433F. Both APs are members of our Universal line of access points. The FAP-U43xF APs are high performance tier 4x4 Wi-Fi 6 APs. Both APs are the first on the market with a flexible tri-radio design that allows for dual 5-GHz operation with client access on 2.4GHz or for operation on 2.4GHz and 5GHz while also offering 24x7 scanning on the third radio.
These APs feature a multi-Gig port for uplink, BLE radio onboard, and are intended to run off 802.3at power.
Wireless Management
FortiGate Integrated Wireless Management Overview
Network IT demands more capability and reliable security from fewer components to save on cost and complexity. Fortinet’s next-generation firewall, FortiGate, is supplied with a Wireless LAN and Switch controller built-in to provide secure Wi-Fi at no extra cost. Perfect for deployments from the campus to the SD-Branch, the integrated solution is Security Fabric enabled, providing the broad visibility, automated protection, and integrated threat intelligence required to protect the valuable assets and data of organizations worldwide all within a single pane of glass.
Fortinet is placed furthest on completeness of vision and ability to execute in the Niche Player Quadrant on Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure
Gartner released the 2019 Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure. In the most recent edition, Fortinet is again in the Niche Players Quadrant, but has been placed furthest on completeness of vision and ability to execute in the Niche Player Quadrant in 2019.