We use the FortiSwitch with our Fortinet firewalls. We configured a VPN to enable secure remote access. It also has a feature for managing policies and controlling traffic flow into and out of the network.
Within our company, which operates multiple stores in the area, we recently acquired two firewalls and a large storage facility. To establish our network infrastructure, we require nearly all components, including forty FortiSwitches. Each switch is fully equipped, with the core switches having five hundred ports and the rest featuring forty-eight ports.
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Director of Communications and Data Management at Reich Global IT FZCO
Real User
Top 20
2023-08-28T13:25:08Z
Aug 28, 2023
Usually, our customers have security devices for the network. We always suggest Fortinet to them, and depending on the number of users, we suggest different versions. If it's a new setup, then we provide FortiAP and FortiSwitch.
We sell a lot of solutions in the educational sector. School boards, universities, colleges, and community colleges are good customers for the Fortinet solution overall and Fortinet switching. I'm usually working with clients who have between 500 to 1,500 users. That's the average commercial enterprise count. About 50 to 60 customers use the product end to end or in some capacity. We've had significant growth in Fortinet business annually. It seems to go up by 10 to 15 clients every year.
When our clients integrate FortiSwitches with FortiGate, they can centrally manage their whole network from FortiGate. That's why it's called Secure Access. The versions of FortiOS that are being used right now are 6.24 and 6.4. These are the two current versions. If we're talking about the models of FortiSwitches, I usually work on 100 to 400 series.
IT consulant at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-01-10T08:06:18Z
Jan 10, 2021
My son owns three healthcare facilities, and two of them are in the same building. That's why I went to VLANs to separate the data to satisfy HIPAA requirements. The other facility is in another town. I'm using them to manage the data and communication through VoIP phones in both locations. They have a server for the whole practice, and so everybody in the building is operating off that server. When they go to the other facility, they use a VPN and connect to the same server.
Our customers use Secure Access to capture log files of many different vendors out there. They're looking at their network, wireless servers, and anything that can capture log files. It seems to be one of the more cost-effective solutions.
We have different use cases in different sectors including in education, banking, health care. You can say it's suitable for all types of businesses like small and medium enterprise. We use this product inside security fabric solutions. We assign switches and then integrate it with FortiGate. We implement this solution for our clients. We are a partner of Fortinet and I'm the CEO of our company.
I'm a technical support engineer and we are a partner, buying and reselling the solution here in Israel. Our primary use case is core switches, The switches are on the customer's data. We use the product as an extension for core security reasons. Around 50% of our customers buy this product from us. It's a central product we sell for extended features of 4G switches.
The customer wanted to have a switch, but then we managed to buy a console: FortiGate. This has been deployed to control the switching. This switch has 40 access points for WiFi access. This has been deployed to the university for student access. We have the controller using FortiGate with the access point being FortiGate. So, we chose FortiSwitch to uniformize our entire equipment and the WiFi for students access. The version depends on the version of FortiOS which is running on the switch.
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2019-11-28T11:33:00Z
Nov 28, 2019
We use this solution for access-level connectivity for phones and computers. Using it as an access point to connect to the switches directly for their POE.
We primarily use the solution for different reasons. It depends on our customer security requirements and the projects that we are implementing for banks, hospitals, etc.
Our general focus as a company and partner with Fortinet is to act as one of the Security Fabric solution providers. We are trying to deliver the whole solution of the Fortinet Security Fabric to our customers. The Secure Access component is a part of that solution.
Fortinet FortiSwitch Secure Access is a secure, high-performance, and easy-to-manage switch. Fortinet FortiSwitch is the best solution for threat-conscious enterprises of all sizes because it is secure, simple, and scalable. Secure Access, which is tightly integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric via FortiLink, may be handled directly from the FortiGate interface.
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We use the FortiSwitch with our Fortinet firewalls. We configured a VPN to enable secure remote access. It also has a feature for managing policies and controlling traffic flow into and out of the network.
I mostly use it as distribution or access switches for branch offices.
Within our company, which operates multiple stores in the area, we recently acquired two firewalls and a large storage facility. To establish our network infrastructure, we require nearly all components, including forty FortiSwitches. Each switch is fully equipped, with the core switches having five hundred ports and the rest featuring forty-eight ports.
We are mainly in the SMB market. Our primary use case are for on-site for secure access to the infrastructure.
We use the solution for internal networking in an office environment.
We are using those switches as our main switches on-site. Everything is FortiSwitch, and everything wireless is FortiAP.
The solution helps provide a seamless internet connection.
Usually, our customers have security devices for the network. We always suggest Fortinet to them, and depending on the number of users, we suggest different versions. If it's a new setup, then we provide FortiAP and FortiSwitch.
We are using FortiSwitch as a gateway for our FortiGate firewalls.
It is a multi-location solution used for security purposes.
The primary use case of the solution is for campus environments and their offices.
It's not fully for Secure Access, it's just for LAN Access. It's just to give access to the local LAN user. It's primarily used for this concern.
We sell a lot of solutions in the educational sector. School boards, universities, colleges, and community colleges are good customers for the Fortinet solution overall and Fortinet switching. I'm usually working with clients who have between 500 to 1,500 users. That's the average commercial enterprise count. About 50 to 60 customers use the product end to end or in some capacity. We've had significant growth in Fortinet business annually. It seems to go up by 10 to 15 clients every year.
Our primary use cases are SD-WAN, web security, and web application filtering.
We are a customer and end user of Fortinet.
We use Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access for enhanced network security.
When our clients integrate FortiSwitches with FortiGate, they can centrally manage their whole network from FortiGate. That's why it's called Secure Access. The versions of FortiOS that are being used right now are 6.24 and 6.4. These are the two current versions. If we're talking about the models of FortiSwitches, I usually work on 100 to 400 series.
My son owns three healthcare facilities, and two of them are in the same building. That's why I went to VLANs to separate the data to satisfy HIPAA requirements. The other facility is in another town. I'm using them to manage the data and communication through VoIP phones in both locations. They have a server for the whole practice, and so everybody in the building is operating off that server. When they go to the other facility, they use a VPN and connect to the same server.
Our customers use Secure Access to capture log files of many different vendors out there. They're looking at their network, wireless servers, and anything that can capture log files. It seems to be one of the more cost-effective solutions.
We have different use cases in different sectors including in education, banking, health care. You can say it's suitable for all types of businesses like small and medium enterprise. We use this product inside security fabric solutions. We assign switches and then integrate it with FortiGate. We implement this solution for our clients. We are a partner of Fortinet and I'm the CEO of our company.
I'm a technical support engineer and we are a partner, buying and reselling the solution here in Israel. Our primary use case is core switches, The switches are on the customer's data. We use the product as an extension for core security reasons. Around 50% of our customers buy this product from us. It's a central product we sell for extended features of 4G switches.
The customer wanted to have a switch, but then we managed to buy a console: FortiGate. This has been deployed to control the switching. This switch has 40 access points for WiFi access. This has been deployed to the university for student access. We have the controller using FortiGate with the access point being FortiGate. So, we chose FortiSwitch to uniformize our entire equipment and the WiFi for students access. The version depends on the version of FortiOS which is running on the switch.
We use this solution for access-level connectivity for phones and computers. Using it as an access point to connect to the switches directly for their POE.
We primarily use the solution for different reasons. It depends on our customer security requirements and the projects that we are implementing for banks, hospitals, etc.
Our general focus as a company and partner with Fortinet is to act as one of the Security Fabric solution providers. We are trying to deliver the whole solution of the Fortinet Security Fabric to our customers. The Secure Access component is a part of that solution.