Fortinet FortiGate Scalability

Saurabh-Pal - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I rate FortiGate nine out of 10 for scalability. Fortinet sells models that can accommodate more people. You can choose a cheaper model if you only have 20-30 users, but you will need to spend more money for a FortiGate solution that covers 5,000. 

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William Nogueira - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Specialist at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

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Jose Gisbert - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Network (IT/OT) at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability for the FortiManger and the devices themselves is a nine out of ten but for the FortiAnalyzer it is a six out of ten.

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Buyer's Guide
Fortinet FortiGate
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiGate. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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WA
IT Consultant at Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera

It's scalable. You can grow as you need. If you need more, you can use a model to upgrade to the next model. 

We don't have users per se; I provide the service to clients. 

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Adeel Razzaq - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Ar at IBEX Holdings Ltd

It's scalable. We have 1,500 to 2,000 people across the world. We have multiple regions and multiple sites.

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EhabAli - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cybersecurity Solutions Architect at BMB

I'd rate Fortinet FortiGate's scalability an eight out of ten.

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Esubalew-Berihun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Ahad

We have 800 end users, approximately.

The solution is scalable. 

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Ismael Abdelkader - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Development Manager at Arrow Electronics

I have implemented FortiGate in approximately 200 projects, and it is a scalable solution.

It is primarily used by medium-sized and enterprise companies. Medium-sized companies normally have between 10 and 50 users whereas an enterprise will have more than 5,000.

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JJ
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. 

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JA
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. If you need to expand it, you can. We have it at a variety of networks and sites with no problem.

We have 120 users that are connected to a minimum of 80 computers and a minimum of 15 servers, which is great. The solution is working and it is still stable even across all of these devices and servers. We have multiple networks inside as well, so we are not only on one network. We set them separately, which is why the initial setup for us was quite complex. We're through with that though.

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Ubeyd  Kara - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Prosight

FortiGate is scalable. 

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FirasHamdan - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at Petra

This is a scalable product. 

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DO
Network Solutions Architect at Yazata Solutions

Scaling up only requires adding a router. Once you have your network in place and a basic template, you buy another router and add it to the mix. It's incredibly easy to add and configure devices. 

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MOHAN SUKUMAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of computer systems at Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology(IIST)

Fortinet FortiGate is a fixed configuration that depends on the number of nodes and devices.

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Abdallah Rukab - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate the scalability of FortiGate a ten out of ten.

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Reviewer:734513 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security & DataCenter Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is good. In 2016, we scaled our system to ensure that we would have enough capacity for the next five to seven years. We are currently only utilizing 25 percent of the hardware processing.

We have around 900 users on our networks per second with a total active directory of 7,000.

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JM
Network admin at Penobscot Valley Hospital

In terms of its users, everybody uses the firewall because they're going out. That's our egress point. So, there are about 20 users for that. We have a dozen IPsec tunnels with which we connect to different companies. So, security is a big part of it. I also have a remote location with about 10 users who use a different firewall.

We probably won't be increasing its usage. Now that I got Authenticator, it nicely compliments the Fortinet firewall. The size of the company isn't going to grow any more than what it is. So, we're good.

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Javed Hashmi - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Future Point Technologies

For small and mid-level enterprises, it has been a very good solution, and that's why they captured that market. Our experience with it has been very good. It's easy to configure and deploy. In our country, their main market is small and big enterprises, but they are gradually focusing on the performance aspect. It's being used in large enterprises as well as a firewall solution.

It's scalable. There were some performance issues a few years ago, but they've fixed them for better performance, optimization, and high throughput. Performance-wise, it's very good.

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PP
Global Chief Information Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

FortiGate could be more scalable. 

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Leif Thomas - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Systems at Ohio Art Co

I would say that the scalability possibilities of this solution are first-rate.

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Costa Mitsios - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Technical Director at Space Hellas S.A.

I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable. We have not had any problems.

We have approximately 150 people using Fortinet FortiGate in my organization. Everyone is using it.

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Syed Ali Waqas - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at Burraq Cyber Security Solutions

While Fortinet FortiGate firewalls are scalable, upgrading to a new version or adding hardware requires purchasing a new license to migrate the old backup to the new firewall. 

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Ehab.Fawzy Mohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Engineer at Hilton Worldwide

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. If you are familiar with it, you can work from anywhere and do whatever you want. It is very easy to scale. We have about 500 users in our organization. It is not only engineering and not IT because we publish many websites from HQ to other branches. End-users use the Fortinet username and password to log in with two-factor authentication and the token.

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Taha Turkestani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT specialist at Saudia Airlines

We have approximately two hundred users within our company.

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Moeed  Mahmood - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Chase Up

The solution is very scalable. The processor, the microprocessor and the security processors are very intelligent so they can scale significantly and manage that well. 

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JB
Senior Network Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

We've been able to scale pretty well. It's not a problem of you need to expand. 

End users will be passing through it. Most of the accounting passes through it to various other locations. We have about 1,500 people on the product, technically.

We do have plans to increase usage. We have not completed the entire County yet. We've done 80% and still need to action the last 20%.

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PK
Network Manager at a tech company with 1-10 employees

The solution is highly scalable.

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Heson Ko - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Specialist at Unicomp Information Co. Ltd.

It is a scalable solution.

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GD
HEST manager at ALTT CONTROL PLUS

The tool is scalable. 

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ES
Solutions Engineer/Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is easy to scale as long as you start with the right firewall. Our clients are of different sizes. We have clients with the home office with two or three employees. One of the clients has about 26 locations in all four time zones and about 400 employees.

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AB
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC

No. Scalability is good, and performance increases are great as you move to higher products.

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Irshad Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution offers the option of deploying VMs or virtual machines to any public cloud, such as AWS or Azure. It provides such flexibility. If you have any application hosted in the cloud space, you can have a VM spin of the FortiGate over there and have a site-to-site tunnel established, so the scalability is there. Otherwise, at the site level, it's mostly hardware-based work. If you size it properly, then you have the option to expand. You might have chosen a low-end model because of the tight budget. In that case, it's not scalable on a specific site. However, if you have a certain number of sites, for example, if you have 400 of them and you want to expand to 500 or 1,000, there is simply a license that goes at the FortiManager level to support additional devices. FortiManager provides a single pane of management. 

I'd rate it a seven out of ten in terms of scalability.

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Sitti Ridzma Salahuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

I rate FortiGate a nine out of ten for scalability. 

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Ibidapo Ibrahim - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is very scalable. To scale our firewall we only need to add more hardware. We currently have over 2,000 users.

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Ed Sexton - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Director at Exponential-e

It is scalable. It is quite straightforward. Moving from, for instance, legacy 200D to 100F has proved not to be an issue. It is quite straightforward.

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Girgis Hady - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Technical Lead/Manager at WadiDegla

I have no problem with scalability. When I need to add any device, I just find and add it to the network. I have no issue with the count of devices. I can buy a license and add whatever devices I need to add. Currently, I have no issue with the scalability of this firewall, but if I reach the maximum limit, I need to exchange the box or just add licenses. We currently have about 1,000 users.

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AK
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Our customers are mainly small to medium businesses. I really didn't have a chance to scale it up. We have a customer with two subsidiaries on the same floor. They are changing from traditional features to SD-WAN features. Based on what I heard from my colleagues, migration work is quite smooth, and there are no big issues.

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KM
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.

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AhmedAboalassaad - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Security Team Head at Amiral

The coverage and scalability of Fortinet FortiGate are good.

We use the solution for daily operations in the data center. There are hundreds of users that use the solution.

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Raphael Haroun  Ikyagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Letshego

It's scalable. It's an SD-WAN application, so on every site we have a FortiGate firewall there.

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VK
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We've found the scalability of the solution to be very good. If a company needs to expand on this solution, it can do so with ease.

We have between 2,000 and 3,000 users on the solution currently.

We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward. We have no plans to change anything.

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AJ
Operation Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Fortinet FortiGate can easily scale using the cloud firewall option.

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Özden Aydın - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Its scalability is good. It's generally used in only one place as a standalone, but sometimes, it's used at multiple locations. 

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Michael Vlahakis - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Digivalue

We have not had the necessary size to experience extendability.

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TN
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.

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WG
IT Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used the limit of our FotiGate firewall which was around 150 users and we never noticed any performance issues. 

I would rate the scalability of FortiGate eight out of ten.

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Luis Teran - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at Cyber Sea

The scalability is good. You can merge other Fortinet products well with this solution.

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Rehan Rauf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Nayatel Pvt. Ltd

The solution is scalable for enterprise companies. 

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SS
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is very good.

We have customers with 1,000 users using this solution and others with 100.

Engineers use this solution and all the end-users are connected to it. The whole organization is using the solution.

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JL
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.

Our company is across many locations. For example, Europe, South America, America, China, Taiwan, and Asia. At this moment all of the sites are using Fortinet FortiGate. There are approximately 10,000 users that are using Fortinet FortiGate.

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Taimoor Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Engineer at Inara Technologies

Our clients are quite sizable. One of them is one of the biggest telecoms in our country. We also have smaller customers that deal with smaller FortiGate models. We have a variety of customers of different sizes from around the country.

It's a scalable solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten. 

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SA
IT Manager at SICOM LTD

We are implementing it phase by phase. Initially, we had one VLAN, and then we added more. So, it is quite scalable, and we haven't had issues with it so far. It has been recommended by the vendor that the model that we have would meet our requirements for the time being. In two or three years, depending on how we expand and how many more resources are required, we might have to look at another version of the device.

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Mario De Keer - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure & Service Manageer at Cerba Research

It is being implemented for everybody. It is our security layer.

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JS
Network Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

There are around 10,000 people in our company, and they are all using FortiGate because they all need to go through this cluster of firewalls.

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Volodymyr Khorenzhyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd.

The scalability of the product is great. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

Up to 100 people use it right now, and likely we will increase usage so that it covers 150 to 200 users. 

If our other branch offices open in other cities or other countries, I will buy another firewall for them as well.

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SP
Senior ICT Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There are some issues with the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate. Certain products and models need to be scalable, but they're not. For example, if you go with 400F, they only have two SFP+ ports, while the F5 has four ports.

When you're expanding the number of users for this solution, they'll ask you to replace the model, and this can be a big cost to customers, which could affect scalability.

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DO
Managing Director with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

If the business expands into other geographical zones, we will need to expand the network and secure it. This is when we will expand the use of Fortinet FortiGate. However, because of this pandemic, businesses are slowly getting back to normal. 

I don't think that expansion will come up in the next one or two years. Maybe in the next three years once they start to pick up their business, then there might be such an expansion or increase in hardware needed.

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Ahmad Aloqlah - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at GlobalTech

We have up to 100 users, and we are pretty satisfied. It's stable. We have never had to scale up because of the newest model. We go with C, E, then F, but at the same level, we never had to upgrade the hardware itself to a higher or a bigger model.

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YM
Presales Manager at rayat

Its scalability is good.

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GM
Manager GIS at epfam

We just have one firewall, and we are too small to have redundancy or something like that. In the future, we would like to have a second unit. We have lots of problems locally with the internet fiber. It is not very good, and ADSL is bad. So, first, we have to stabilize and upgrade our connection, and later, we will try to have redundancy, but it is not necessary at this time.

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KN
IT Manager at KSB MIL Controls Limited

The scalability of the solution seems to be pretty good. We haven't had any issues in that respect.

Currently, our organization has about 125 users on the product.

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AT4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.

It is a scalable solution.

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Raphael Nwosu - PeerSpot reviewer
EVP, Product Line Management & Growth at Kropmann Communications Ltd

It is a scalable product.

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AG
Senior Director Information Technology at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had a need to scale it, so it provides directly what we need it for.

There are approximately 2,800 users in my organization. The solution doesn't require a lot of staff for maintenance.

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IS
CEO at Acme Technologies

It is scalable. We have more than a thousand users. 

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SM
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

I will tell a client not to go with Fortinet if they have no firewall or they have a very, very old firewall. If this is from scratch, I'd say let's not go with Fortinet, let's go with Meraki if you have the money. I always say create the budget for it if you have a lot of sites, as Cisco does a better job if you have a lot of sites. If you have two sites, then it's fine to go with Fortinet. It'll scale to that scale. However, if you want to go over a couple of sites, it's not the best option.

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RM
Deputy Manager Of Information Technology at Nitco Limited

We have not tried to scale FortiGate.

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JT
Technical Account Manager at DSM Technology Consultants, LLC

Our clients are small to medium-sized businesses. 

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MK
ICT/Presales Manager at Balton Uganda

The scalability has met our requirements. We have around 40 users.

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SC
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It is also a scalable solution. However, as integrators, the scalability depends on us. There are many options available, and we can choose the size of the box based on our requirements.

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NC
Sales Director at Visualize Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.

The product is not scalable. 

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MS
Quality Trainer at MOH

Fortinet FortiGate has limited scalability capabilities. You can't expand these devices. For example, if I was to go from 150 users to approximately 5,000, the CBU capability of the device would not suffice.

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ZaidoonAbuhanak - PeerSpot reviewer
SALES PRODUCT MANAGER at NOURNET

FortiGate is scalable.

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Mohamed El-Sherbini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Mada Insurance

I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.

Fortinet FortiGate is good for medium to large-sized enterprises.

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AR
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is very scalable.

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Michael-Sugg - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Sovereign Managed Services

I haven't really pushed this product from a scalability perspective. Certainly, if you look at the performance metrics, the F series appears to have really expanded the capacity and capabilities beyond past models. If you look at 40E versus 40F, there's a fairly substantial difference. For a small office, it's going to be just fine.

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CA
Director at a integrator with 11-50 employees

For large scale deployment I would suggest to look at FortiManager, a central management point for large amount of FortiGates. I have tested the solution and found it quite useful. I could download configuration from any device and install edited list of policies to several devices simultaneously through a couple of clicks. Also I liked functionality of clearing out Address objects list from unused entries. It can be configured to be a central repository of firmware and updates, and a local rating server (url and antispam rating services) which can improve rating lookup latency value.

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AS
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

FortiGate is a very scalable tool. They have an app to manage the access points, switches, and other solutions. 

For our project, now we're over a hundred users at the headquarters. The other branch supports about 20 persons.

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Tamer Baher - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Services Manager at Insight Technology

It is scalable.

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RM
Works at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

It is scalable.

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BS
Assistant Manager - Network & Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

For scalability, you must define your needs before implementing Fortinet FortiGate. You must know specifications, such as throughput, the number of sessions, and the SSL. Overall it is not scalable.

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GD
Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We have more than 10,000 people o the solution. The scalability capabilities are enough. We haven't had a problem at all. 

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DG
Senior Network Architect at Combat Networks

In terms of scalability, it scales very well.

They have different models for different sizes. Obviously, if you buy too small and you have to upgrade, then it's a box swap. Some other vendors can just add another unit and you cluster them together. In their case it's more of just switching the box out for more performance boxes if you go too low.

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UB
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability depends on the design and how it was done. You have to think about the next five years. We get lots of new updates on the older versions and if the product is still in support then the new features will be included.

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it_user236517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior NetOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There is a specific way of deploying a Fortigate product, and the scalability is related to the new unit deployment so there are no problems here. If you need more power/space, you just have to add a new box.

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AN
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's scalable. We have plans to increase its usage.

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MA
Senior System Engineer at Effvision

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.

We have approximately 25 people that are using this solution. We do not plan to increase usage.

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MH
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.

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Yassin Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Support Engineer at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

FortiGate covers everything we need. Our company has looked into changing our firewall, but I recommended this solution because it meets all our requirements. Currently, we have between 150 to 200 users covered by the platform.

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AM
Security Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Fortinet FortiGate has good scalability. You can deploy it in multiple areas and in multiple deployment modes such as firewall, inter-firewall, or core firewall. Fortinet FortiGate has appliances on multiple series that have different performances. You can choose multiple areas or multiple sites.

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MM
Information Security Principal at Alkhorayef

With respect to scalability, it's an excellent product.

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Sabyasachi Sen - PeerSpot reviewer
IT General Manager at Manav Rachna International School

It should have been scalable. But, it is not quite so. There are limitations, I need to change the box or I have 1500 D. That means I can make 1000 connections, but some kind of vestibules are going on and the advances are going on. Then, I find it very difficult to give  a connectivity simultaneously and upon current connections. As a result, I have to deprive my faculties, my staff, or my students of certain functions.

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JA
Founder / Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Its scalability is very good. There are 100 to 3,000 users, and they are knowledge workers with different roles, such as engineers, lawyers, accountants, etc.

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Ali ALI - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager Traditional Channels at FrieslandCampina

There are limitations to scalability.

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PH
Deputy Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I can't really speak to the scalability of the solution, as it isn't as aspect I handle. I've never tried to do it, so I'm not sure how it works.

We have about 50 users on the solution. About one third have access to it.

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MM
Assistant Manager IT at Urmi Garments Ltd

Currently, we have more than 600 employees using this product. Our users range from IT staff, management, and senior executives. We are all using it. And we plan on increasing the number of users to more than what we are currently at.

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Kirubel Markos - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate a five out of five.

All sizes of organizations can use this solution. All levels of a company are using this solution.

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RK
Systems & Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues.
When one of the boxes is active, we can't see the HA box in the same console.

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YK
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are happy with its scalability. Its users are administrators. Our administrator team has about six people. The environment is set up as a multi-tenant, so each tenant has its own administrator for configuration.

It has been used every day since 2015. It is a core appliance for us.

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US
Sr. Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scalability of this solution is good, we can add devices whenever we like. 

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JS
Network Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution can scale well. If a company needs to expand it, they can.

I have various clients that use the solution and they have a user base that can range anywhere from five users to over 10,000.

I do plan to continue to use the solution in the future, however, I can't speak as to if my clients will expand their services or not.

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JM
PTL Network Administrator at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of usage, I have a main branch and then we have smaller branches throughout the country. Connecting to each site through FortiGate is much easier.

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IK
Sales project manager at Saraha

The solution is scalable. We have 11 clients using this solution.

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Charbel Hajj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Supervisor at MEPEQ

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.

In our company, it is the main gateway for the internet, and we have less than 100 users.

Deployment is faster per user. Each one has a laptop or a PC, as well as a mobile phone, so we have less than 100 devices per user, but with mobile phones and Internet access, that number can rise to more than 100.

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HE
System Engineer - Security Presales at Raya Integration

I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.

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Qaiser Abbas - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.

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Hariom Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Technical Support at Rubik Infotech Pvt. Ltd

The solution isn't scalable per se as it is hardware. However, you can always buy more hardware to expand it if you need to. 

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AP
Security Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

I haven't worked on the scalability side because most of the time, the pre-sales tools are relatively bigger devices. So right now, I haven't faced any issues with scalability. They have some larger devices for the data center. So if we talk about their hardware, I think they're capable of handling around 10,000 to 15,000 people on a single device. But if you go with the virtual environment, I don't think there is a problem. Fortinet has a single OS that we can deploy on whatever hardware capacity we want to configure over there or through virtualization.

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NA
Manager systems at HOCL

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough.

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it_user283398 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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JH
Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable solution. We have about six thousand users and have plans to increase.

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RV
Business Development Manager - Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The product can be scalable. However, it could be better. You are limited by the hardware.

We have more than 100 clients using this solution.

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MA
Manager IT at Riphah

I do not foresee the product being easy to scale. We find it so hard. It does not seem to be possible.

Currently, we have around 15 users and there are five to ten people handling the management aspect of the product.

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KS
Owner at Computech Associates

It is a scalable solution, and you can also upgrade. They come up with a new feature every time. Whenever you're updating your firewall firmware, it is ready to mitigate threats available in the fiber scenario.

Our clients are small, medium, and large businesses. We have deployed it for small offices or retail stores as well as for big manufacturing units. We also have clients from Education and Healthcare. Some of the large companies have between 800 to 1,000-plus devices protected through this firewall.

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JH
Engineer at The Learning Network

For the traffic we have all five firewalls. The log is minimal with the traffic, which is going over the firewall and we don't require a lot of scalability. 

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SP
Enterprise Service Manager at Technology Associates Limited

We have 400 users covered under the firewall and 50 employees. We've never had issues with scaling. It shouldn't be a problem. However, it's not something we actively measure.

We plan to increase usage and to continue to use the product for another three years. After that we may upgrade to a new Fortinet product or seek out a new solution, depending on the landscape at that time.

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NC
Director, CFO at IT Green Public Company Ltd.

Our experience with Fortinet FortiGate depends more on the sizing of the customer. Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs.

We have scaled from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers. 

We are not a distributor for Fortinet, so we will not actively promote it as a solution.

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it_user755889 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at MT Pockets Computers

Scalability is excellent. Across three locations we have 120 users.

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DN
I.T. Manager at Pacific Cigarette Company

It has the capacity to change in size. It comes in different sizes. E.g., for a smaller organization, you buy smaller package, then for bigger entities, you buy the bigger one. If you have fewer users in a certain entity, they would get a package of 50 each. If it's a head office, then you'd get something like 201. So, it accommodates for all sizes.

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MZ
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology

Fortinet FortiGate is a very scalable product.

It is managed by the IT department, so only they use it.

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RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

The solution is pretty scalable. It's flexible. It works with the organization and allows you to expand it as necessary.

In my company, we use FortiGate across several locations. The location with the most number of users has maybe 400 to 500 employees. That said, there is another FortiGate that manages the traffic that goes to the internet for all of the users across locations. We must have around 900 users.

We do plan to continue to use it going forward.

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SK
Deputy General Manager Information Technology at a media company with 201-500 employees

You can have the availability features. All the traffic goes through this firewall for access to the outside world.

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SH
CEO at SAYCOM

It fits for small and medium-sized companies. Regarding the very big ones, I don't know, I'm not in the enterprise market. But for our clients that are offices or companies that are sized between 20 users and 300 users, it's okay. It's good for them.

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VS
ICT Officer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have been in no position to upgrade our number of users. So, I cannot judge this aspect of the product.

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it_user241101 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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KM
Systems Engineer at Vernity

Some clients may increase usage in the future. FortiGate is fast becoming a very popular solution and its use will likely grow in general. 

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TJ
Sr. System Administration at Grind Master Machines Pvt. Ltd.

It is quite scalable.

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MS
Lead Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It's quite scalable. The scalability and the migration are okay as well. Licensing model is also stright forword and certain features such as basic SSL VPN requires no to min additional cost per user.

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JT
CEO/CTO with 201-500 employees

The scalability is good. You can expand it as needed and add on extra apps to add in extra functionality if you want to.

We mostly deal with mid-range companies. 

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AC
Sales Engineer - Sênior at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The scalability is fine. If a company needs to expand it, they should be able to do so without any issues.

We only have about 40 users on the product currently. It's not a big company.

For now, the product is good as it is and we don't have plans to increase usage in the future.

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DB
Security Systems Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Their scalability is pretty good. We have upgraded and changed them, and we have been running them for 20 years. They run for a long time. We are not replacing them every couple of years, and we have scaled up a lot. We have over 10,000 users behind it. We have three people for maintenance and deployment. 

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JC
Network Security Engineer at Social Security Commission

We have a cluster and we have configured it with high availability. What we have done is we have put one primary and one secondary in case it breaks or it gets damaged. We have a third one at our DR site as well, which works in conjunction with Plateau. We have employed the same rules and some stricter rules on the DR site, just to allow traffic between these machines.

We allow certain times for updates on the infrastructure we have at the DR. We are planning some more, however, we don't enjoy all the features yet. We want to bring in an SD-WAN. Maybe that can also help us with scaling our network at different angles and from the cloud or being from an LD device or so forth. We're still working on that.

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EP
Director of IT with 51-200 employees

I know that it's scalable, but I don't actually have any experience regarding scalability. It's probably not as scalable as pfSense because pfSense is based on open hardware platforms. I definitely know that proprietary platforms usually tend to be less scalable because they're more constrained with licensing. The scalability in my opinion would be decent, satisfactory, but I believe pfSense is probably more scalable. I know that there are a lot of big corporations like Google and others that use pfSense. I don't know the details. I'm just giving my educated guess.

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SK
Lead Program Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I currently have about 36 to 40 devices that are being used. We use a certain number of devices from business to business.

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VS
Branch Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is good, although I see that some brands are now coming up with an important advancement. Currently, when you want to do HE (High-end), you have to have the same model or a similar model. Some competing solutions are now able to do HE between mixed models.

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it_user249372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Consultant with 501-1,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues; proven that you properly sized the FortiGate model that fits your environment.

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ZB
Group Manager Procurement/SCM at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. We have 10 clients who are using this solution.

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PM
Responsabile ced with 1-10 employees

We have approximately 80 employees that are protected by FortiGate. We have approximately 20 that work in the office, with a total of about 50 PCs.

It has not been necessary to scale beyond that.

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IT Specialist at Divante

Currently, everyone who is connected with the company is using this solution. We have up to 240 people.

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Mohamed Abdel Hassanein - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at FORESEC

In terms of scalability, our biggest customer using it has 500 people.

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SN
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product is scalable and as a service provider, we extend our usage to external customers. There are many users on the platform.

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ME
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have more than 7.000 users on the solution right now.

We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward.

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TA
Senior solution architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability of the device is limited.

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TD
President at simnet

With respect to scalability, it's good.

We have 15 people using this solution in our organization.

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FN
Network Analyst at Aloo Telecom

I found this product to be good for scalability. It offers several features, among them I can mention Application Control, Antispam, QoS and others.

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VB
IT System Administrator at emirates hospital

If we implement Fortinet to Fortinet connections, then the solution works fine and there are no issues. If we connect with any other vendor like Cisco, Palo Alto, or these kinds of devices, I can see sometimes that the connectivity issue is there.

From IIS, the I/O packet works and connectivity is ideal. Connectivity is fine, but the title clock unnecessarily comes in and sometimes it doesn't reach the destination.

We use Fortinet FortiGate in twenty to twenty-five locations at the time, although we are basically focused on healthcare industry requirements.

For the deployment and maintenance, we have two people we are using right now. Regarding maintenance and deployment, we employ experts in network and security support. 

We don't have any plans to increase usage of Fortinet FortiGate. We only use it in 25 locations.

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it_user545559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company

Scalability is the one area where there is room for some improvement. Currently, customers need to purchase more powerful units as their network traffic and requirements grow. Fortinet will occasionally offer trade-in credits in such situations, but this is not always the case. Their product line allows customers to scale from SoHo through enterprise-level requirements, which is what I like about them so much.

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SC
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm

They are easily scalable with multiple built-in interfaces. It supports a minimum of 10 VDOMs. VDOM supports all dynamic routing protocols like RIP, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS. You do not need to reboot after enabling the VDOMs.

Area for improvement - there is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files.

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AG
Specialist of IT Solutions at InterNexa

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.

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KM
ICT Systems Administrator at a philanthropy with 11-50 employees

We find Fortinet FortiGate scalable, because currently, we have 150 users of it, and it could handle up to 1,000 users. It's good for growth.

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Silvia Ihensekhien - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer at ShipServ Limited

They provide different products and features and can be added if you needed 

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IR
Group IT Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is very scalable.

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QV
IT Infrastructure managerInformation an Communication Services Manager at a agriculture with 5,001-10,000 employees

We don't have scalability requirements so I can't comment. 

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JT
Chief Information Officer at a analyst firm with 10,001+ employees

Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable. 

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EM
Technical Services Manager at ProComm technologies

It is highly scalable. A customer had about 500 users.

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AN
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is very scalable.

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IY
Assistant Manager (Infrastructure) at SISTIC
Arf Wu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Readytech

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.

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WK
Network/Systems Administrator at TRSP

The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate.

We have approximately 2,000 users using Fortinet FortiGate.

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ML
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

There are times Fortinet FortiGate can not be scalable.

We have 20 people using the solution.

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MK
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

The solution's scalability is a problem because when you use a LAN, you use hardware and hardware wastes resources. However, it is more scalable than some of its competitors, such as Check Point. We have 620 users using the product.

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AY
IT Infrastructure Engineer at Communication Progress

This solution is scalable. They have now built hyperscale firewalls and it's very easy. Also VMs, for example, is very easy to scale, you just need to adjust the licensing. 

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RW
Documentation Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability-wise, I haven't had any problems. Because of the price, I would say that this product is better for large enterprises.

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TF
Officer / General Manager Software R&D Laboratory at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

I can't speak to the scalability. I've never attempted to scale and therefore don't have a sense of how well the solution would take to it.

We have about 30 engineers that work with the solution currently. I'm not sure, however, if there are any plans to increase usage in the future.

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RV
Manager - IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

This is a scalable solution. We are able to integrate new products and different payment options. As new projects come in, we are looking for a hybrid setup that will incorporate the cloud.

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SC
System Administrator at a media company with 11-50 employees

Fortigate has more than adequate capability to cope with everything we require for the foreseeable future. 

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DY
Principal Mining Consultant at senhwabio

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable, but it is not a requirement for us. We only have 25 users. They are general users, not engineers. I am the only engineer needed to maintain FortiGate.

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JC
Manager and General Attorney with 51-200 employees

The scalability is fine. The problem is the licensing. To do more you have to pay for it. In this market, where you can find a lot of devices to do the same things, to charge for them in the license is very difficult. Also, sometimes Fortinet changes their products, they drop devices from the market very quickly.

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MT
CEO & Sr. Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

There were no issues with scalability.

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it_user179136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability's not been an issue for my org. We only utilize it for certain applications.

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it_user149982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

With design and dimensioning parts well achieved I never encountered scalability issue. However it happened I had to troubleshoot some slowness and latency issues on existing projects already running live. Most of the time they were due to some design issues and non-optimized configurations like for instance “in” and “out” ports not handled by the same NP, policy rules non-optimized and non-used features enabled.

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EK
Security Engineer at Eguardian lanka

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.

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PH
President at Integral Design Software

With only two people in the company, we haven't needed to scale. Our roles include software development and providing technical support for various clients.

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MP
Sr. Corporate Marketing Executive at Amity Infosoft Pvt. Ltd.

Scalability is Fine.

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FS
Director Of Technology at PT Exa Teknologi Indonesia

So far our biggest client is only FortiGate 400, a small-medium business.

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RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable.

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GI
Mgr. IT Infrastructure and Network Operations at a media company with 11-50 employees

We have not had any issues with scalability.

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it_user234777 - PeerSpot reviewer
IP Senior Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I believe that it is a little complex adding new firewalls in an existing cluster.

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it_user998895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at renaissance group

I haven't run into any issues when it comes to scaling. If a company needs to scale it should be able to do so without much of a problem.

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KO
Consultant at WorldNet ICT Solutions Limited

The scalability of this solution is fantastic.

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KS
ICT Administrator at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

It is very scalable. We have around 200 users. 

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AK
Senior Security Consultant at SEE "Systems Engineering of Egypt"

It is amazing, but sometimes there are issues with Fortinet Integrations. But, I know they are now trying to rectify the problem.

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YA
Tech Manager at Global tec

Sometimes the solution is not scalable.

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it_user431136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Information Technology at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I have not encounter any scalability issues.

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MC
System ADM at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

This is not an area fully explored. It has been sufficient for what we need.

We have 700 users in our organization who are using this solution. We don't have plans to increase our usage at this time.

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LW
Consultant at Resolve Technology Limited

The solution isn't exactly scalable, especially when it comes to the public cloud environment. We'll need to scale up, so we will have to figure out how to do it effectively.

We primarily work with medium and large enterprises.

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JM
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have approximately 40,000 employees and the product is very scalable. The different hardware units are quite good and are an appropriate size for enterprise-sized businesses.

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DA
Directorate at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

Regarding scalability, we have bought a very large box, so it meets all of our requirements.

We have a big company, with fifteen hundred end points.

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AL
Network Security Coordinator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have personally found that Fortinet advertising can be misleading. The devices will usually fail way before reaching the capacity advertised in the data sheets, especially when you activate several of the features the device can handle. This is not a dealbreaker for me, especially because of the cost. But I would advise care when dimensioning the devices you’ll need.

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LM
Head Of Technology at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is very scalable.

We have implemented it for 13 or 14 customers.

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MP
IT Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability is very good. If you need to scale it as an organization, you can do so.

We have 100 users. They are largely network engineers, however, we have technicians and active users.

We do plan to increase usage in the near future. We have more projects coming up.

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ES
Solutions Architect at Universal Access and Systems Solutions

Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites.

With FortiGate, if you want to upgrade, it is physical and you have to buy a bigger box. You have to replace it with a bigger one. The boxes of Fortinet are not modular, so you have to replace the entire box. That's one of the bad sides of Fortinet. 

When it comes to security, it's not really possible if the other solution is actually plausible. 

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it_user819147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at CGP

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is sufficient. What we bought was sufficient for what we need. I don't know if we're going to need to upgrade it or not, it depends on if we need to increase or lessen it. 

Since we built Fortinet FortiGate we didn't need to do anything more for it. Over 200 users are currently using this solution and only one staff is required for maintaining it.

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RO
IT Manager at Soporte Antivirus Ltda

It's scalable. We have 22 users. 

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it_user125442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dono at a tech consulting company

We have the ability to expand our units and there have been no issues so far.

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ZR
Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I think the scalability could be improved.

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SW
Compliance Officer at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees

You can scale the solution if you need to. It's not a difficult thing to do.

We do plan to continue using this solution.

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AM
Chief Information Officer at teamddt

Scalability can be improved. Compared to Cisco, Fortinet FortiGate's scalability is in a good position.

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NN
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. There are no issues. In terms of the number of users who use FortiGate, we have only about ten users for remote working. Only selected users utilize this remote capability.

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VV
Head Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable but when you do scale, it limits the performance. We have over 1,000 users in our company and four people who deal with the maintenance of all our solutions. 

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NS
IT & PPN Coordinator at a manufacturing company

The solution can scale if you need it to. That's not a problem at all.

We do plan on continuing to use the service going forward.

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RJ
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Since we are integrators, this product gets sold to people who have a minimum 25 and up to 600 users.

At the moment, we don't plan to increase usage.

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DS
IT Specialist 3 at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We have just over 100 users using this solution.  

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AM
Information Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Scalability is fine as of now. Compared to other firewall products, it's a little cheaper in terms of pricing. So scalability is good. 

But right now, due to a greater focus on security, I think FortiGate needs to improve on the security features, and they need to do so for their small and medium business products, in order to compete.

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BT
System & Network Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.

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SP
Data Center Operations and Customer Support Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not tried to expand the product much, but it is currently used as the main security perimeter for about 2000 people which is already quite a large number. We don't predict that we will be increasing usage much more than that.

We plan to keep using FortiGate as much as we can for our security solution as we casually move more of our systems to the cloud.

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MV
Senior Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is scalable.

We have 300 users in our organization.

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it_user1383504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

There are other products on the market that are a little better than FortiGate in terms of scalability, but in general it's a good solution. We have about 200 users in the company. 

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GA
Network Engineer at LinkTech

We have knowledge of other firewall products but FortiGate is the best.

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it_user454521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Chief Manager at a newspaper with 5,001-10,000 employees

There was a hardware limitation, affecting scalability.

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it_user375528 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT NETWORK ENGINEER at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

It has not been a problem to scale it.

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it_user245154 - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Support engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

For massive logs & reports (over a month) we have to go for a separate logging & reporting device i.e. FortiAnalyzer/FortiCloud, as this is not available in Fortigate itself.

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it_user236523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user229269 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Infrastructure - Tech Specialist with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user107088 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Support Analyst at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
None so far, well it depends with license of the vpn. You need to purchase it and discuss it with the vendor. View full review »
TK
CIO at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

It's a scalable product. We have 600 users in our organization.

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LJ
Head of Customer Success at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's a scalable product.

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it_user510852 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Services Manager with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability is very good. We just did a quote for a university here that has about 25,000 students, and all the solutions that we put in the RFP, they were accepted. The only thing is the cost. As far wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you.

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it_user677703 - PeerSpot reviewer
Superintendent, Process Automation and Safety at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No scalability issues, but communications is severely limited in our case by design.

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Walid Semrani - PeerSpot reviewer
Networking and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

This solution is scalable.

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RJ
Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The scalability is good. We have approximately 50 employees using this product in our company.

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MZ
Program director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

We have over 5000 users using the solution at my company.

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SB
Security Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. We are making a cost savings on the scalability.

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it_user867420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer

Since we are not virtual, it is a physical box. It scales well if you know what to buy from a physical box standpoint. They seem to offer something for every level.

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it_user700113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner

There were no scalability issues.

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AJ
Telecommunications Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable solution. I would rate it a seven out of ten.

We have 2,500 users in our organization.

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ML
Director/Owner at Miodesk

Scalability is good, we have about 5,000 users.

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AC
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is both scalable and stable.

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AL
GM: Information Systems at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

It is scalable. We use it at five sites, and all in all, we have around 300 users.

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IQ
Branch Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We find the solution to be quite scalable. If your organization needs to expand this solution out, you shouldn't have any problems doing so.

We have two or three different locations and have between 50 to 200 users amongst those locations.

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it_user929583 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

It keeps improving the features and I am very impressed with the effort.

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YK
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. We don't have any constraints that create a problem for us except the support.

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RB
CEO e confundador at Infinity Learning

It is good enough for us. We have about 15 employees who use this solution.

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KN
Service Delivery Engineer - Network Security Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic. The VM version with the hardware appliances is widely scalable. It can handle small businesses to large scale enterprises. In terms of mode of deployment, you have VM, hardware appliance, and cloud. There is cloud management as well that is scalable. It can suit a number of deployment scenarios.

We currently have 50 employees using the solution, some of our clients that have deployed it has 1000 users and it has not given a problem.

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MR
Junior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

FortiGate is a scalable product and our customer has approximately 2,000 users.

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AC
Specialist of IT Solutions at INTERNEXA

The solution is scalable.

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it_user181989 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, somewhat.

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DO
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My colleagues have easily switched licenses and features for the device. There was not any complication, it was really intuitive.

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it_user795288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
AC
Engineering Manager at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
it_user234774 - PeerSpot reviewer
IP Core & Security Supervisor at a comms service provider

No issues encountered.

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it_user678567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Focus

It is a very secure, easily managed product. It keeps up-to-date with all the variabilities.

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MB
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This product is definitely scalable. Our clients range from small to medium-sized businesses.

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it_user915438 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director TICs at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability is good.

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it_user433407 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a tech company with 11-50 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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MR
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.

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PD
Group Leader – FM Operations Team at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have had no trouble scaling the solutions.

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Buyer's Guide
Fortinet FortiGate
March 2024
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