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Fortinet FortiADC Primary Use Case

OusaidAbaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Network Architect at Inmac

The primary use case involves load balancing, which can be integrated with various platforms such as FortiGate and FortiMail. Administrators choose FortiADC as a load-balancing platform due to its integration capabilities with end-user technologies. 

It supports the creation of virtual IPs and configuration of server nodes, applying algorithms like route roaming, which depends on the administrator's choice.

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AG
Senior Network Engineer at SP SYSNET PTE. LTD.

Mostly, I use FortiADC for web applications. For example, we have multiple trading websites where we need to load payments for many clients accessing from outside.

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Andrew Reynolds - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at CBR Cyber Pty Ltd

The tool offers Web Application Firewall to protect against threats such as what is outlined in the OWASP Top 10 and robust load-balancing functionality with in depth health monitoring of application availability.

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Saeid Khanipour Ghobani - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Technology Evaluation Center

Our company uses the solution for various clients.

For one customer, we use the solution for global load balancing, GSLB, and sending DNS requests to the primary DNS.

For another customer, we use the solution as the ADC for data centers to protect all websites and use Layer 7 to provide DDos protection and load balancing for web traffic. 

For a third customer, we use the solution as a GSLB but rented a data center rack to deploy as a virtual machine with all DNS requests going to the cloud and then to the customer. 

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OL
System administrator at ALSU

We are expanding our internal network with more virtual servers, and each needs to be defined on the Fortinet gateway. The FortiADC facilitates communication for servers meant for public access and supports load balancing. My main tasks involve defining new servers and importing SSL certificates.

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NT
Network and Security Administrator at YU

I use Fortinet ADC solution for SSL offloading, certificate management, and load balancing.

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Sameer Ghewade - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at Parag Milk Foods Ltd

We use Fortinet FortiADC for controlling applications by Microsoft and Google. We use the solution to block content that must be blocked and allow content that can be allowed.

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Mohammad Ab.Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Snskies

We use Fortinet FortiADC for disaster recovery, server load balancing, and global level server load balancing.

The GSLB is on the internet.

I can do GSLB, global server load balancing, and disaster recovery for server load balancing with web features. We can use the FortiADC as a caching server for user experience, as well as a variety of other things. It is similar to half of the web. it is 80 percent of the web.

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Aymar Tala Defo - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

We use the product to manage load balancing and HTTP traffic. 

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KRISTOF Laenen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at KLC bvba

We use Fortinet FortiADC as a resource proxy and load balancer.

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Mohamed Fouad - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Team Leader at Summit Technology Solution

Our customers use Fortinet FortiADC for load balancing multiple applications on databases, web servers, etc.

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Bruno Moreira - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at SigmaTelecom

We use FortiADC for link load balancing. FortiGate has this feature, but some customers aren't using Fortinet firewalls. In this case, the customer had three Internet links for downloading huge satellite images that are more than 70 GB. 

This company collects the images so their software can analyze which crops are at risk. They download the images between the hours of noon and midnight, and their customers access the website early in the morning around 7 a.m. They need to have the images downloaded and analyzed by the time their customers wake up, but the download server only allows 10 connections per IP address. We set up three links to achieve 30 connections to that IP server, and FortiADC balances the load between those links. 

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Seshi Dumpa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We load segregated data from the web application firewalls and have an alternative load balancer for both our internal and external applications. There are some extensive rewrites that we need. This load is used across our geographically dispersed locations, and data centers, that are actually facilitating both regions.

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reviewer1155504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager BU Network/Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's used for load-balancing traffic and DNS traffic as well. We use FortiADC as the global traffic manager and DNS solution and also as a classic load application delivery controller.

We use it to load balance between applications.

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VK
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We mainly use FortiADC for load balancing the application traffic for our customers. The aim is for the traffic to be equally balanced between servers, whether there are two, 10 or 20 servers. There are different load balancing algorithms that we have on the FortiADC and based on that we configure and we load balance the traffic. We have a static website, so we can use FortiWeb instead of the connection coming from the client each time. FortiADC gets the request from the cache Instead of it being sent to the server. If we have different ISP links, then we do our link load balancing using FortiADC. I'm a senior cyber security engineer and we are distributors of FortiADC.

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it_user1256058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager/Division of Computers Systems, Networks, and Maintenance at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees

We are an academic institution and our primary use of FortiADC is for student registrations. In the month that I have been using this solution, it seems to be working fine. It is a trial version and I am using it as a virtual appliance, rather than a physical one.

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MC
Full support analyst at Gruppen

I use Fortinet FortiADC for load balancing for different data centers.

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OC
Technical Director at AXIOBASE

I am an IT integrator and we sell ADC, mainly Fortinet FortiADC.

In our last project, we used Fortinet FortiADC for load balancing some specific applications for telecom.

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AS
Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this product for application delivery control and global load balancing.

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Engenhard7ba - PeerSpot reviewer
Engenharia de Pré-Vendas

Mixed server environment with Apache Servers, IIS Servers and internal applications. Load balance all the servers through VIPs to equally distribute all the connections among the servers and SSL Offloading. We’ve used it to reduce our server farm, lowering cost, and effectively use all the servers at once.

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HH
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use FortiADC as a disaster recovery solution. We deploy FortiADC as a high-availability (HA) cluster at the datacenter, and as a standalone unit at the DRC.

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TechWritbdcb - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Writer

The situation is a seminar session for about 250 users who need access to a BI server through their client in-house application. It's look like this:

Five Servers -> FortiADC -> FortiWLC-> Meru Wireless 

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reviewer1721355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution for deploying applications on local servers. Most customers use it for local traffic management and use the benefits of a security profile.

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